Margo49 where are you?

[PAP103]

I know you don't want us to worry about you but we do anyway! Please post when you can to let us know you're OK. We're all thinking of you and hoping you're safe.

Peace

[DrBee]

I was thinking of making the same post. Sometimes she skips a day of posting. Every time I hear about more bombings on the news, I can't help but think of Margo.

[margo49]

Yeah yeah
I'm only all over the F^%$ing forum!
Must get an avatar...calling 14 yo ds#2 to the electronic rescue!

We are too much in range now and I didn't want to go out in *that* thank you very much. Yesterday was quieter; and I thought there was a ceasefire of 48 hours but turns out it was a figment of Condoleeza Rice's imagination. All the tv and 1/2 the internet reported it, till the Prime Minister got himself organised in an appropriate tie and nicely decked out press conference to tell us all that it was war-business as usual. We shoulda noticed of course with all those funny boom's and the fact that the 5000 men that suddenly disappeared on Sunday in a Reserves call-up didn't equally suddenly reappear.

Speaking of testosterone (which is on all our minds lately)... It is a little unclear how efficient a Reserve soldier will be. Gung-ho at 18, by about 25 he has forgotten a lot and his reactions are slower too. As the years go by add on 10+ kg, a wife and kids, other responsibilities like job, and an appreciation of life in general (as opposed to the alternatives for example death by traffic accident or cancer) and your lean mean fighting machine has become a human being. The thing that keeps him in the Reserves is seeing "the guys" a few weeks a year and now the almost unbearable costs of refusal to respond to a call-up.

My bursitis-prone knee was a bit iffy for a few days so I swam. I also post a bit erratically Friday-Saturday

I will ride after this and give you-all some detail of nature upon which to concentrate your prayers,meditations, spiritualities (pms for short geddit? geddit!).
Keep us all in mind but after you have felt sad and sorry don't worry about us for long. Move into a hopeful and positive space.What is here and what could be

Love you all
shalom, salaam, peace, pax

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[Bikingmomof3]

My continued prayers for safety and peace.

[margo49]

About an hour from home is a short stretch of the Israel-Jordan border. Readily accessible from the main road it leads to a small memorial park called the Island of Peace. In better days you could walk along the banks of the two rivers that meet there. In winter you could join the crowds watching the swirling water as the seasonal rains swelled the rivers.
Now there are only zebra finches flitting about in small flocks as well as doves and the occasional kingfisher perching on the power lines or a facon cruising for rodents.The bee-eater nesting holes are empty now - they have migrated.
The border fence itself is set deep in reinforced concrete but at a few points this foundation is exposed. So imagine my joy and surprise as I saw a set of tracks going dead straight across the sand-strip to one of these "gaps". Looking closer I saw claw imprints characteristic of a mongoose. "Rikki Tikki Tavi" I said to myself, remembering the mongoose in Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book.
One mongoose going for a drink at dawn...
One woman on a bike searching for some small sign that life is not completely defined by borders, war and politics...
Well, I guess we both got what we needed.