Framed Location

I spend all my time in Tel Aviv these days. Meeting people, writing, just mingling; in person and online. The second that I get on the bus back home, I miss this city. It’s hard to get enough of her intoxicating magic once you’re in the fray but living outside. I’ve always loved her. This time, it comes with a different twist. In life, every phase has its own magic. Places keep theirs much longer.

Last weekend’s edition of Yediot Aharonot had an article about a “future scientist” who is pioneering in social predictions who says that a decade in a country’s life equals one year in a person’s life. Our progression as a society is ten times slower than our personal growth.

During my travelling there was a funny phenomenon that I saw everywhere: intelligent folks usually critique quite negatively the places they come from, while the less intellectual ones usually Love their home-land more than anything and often don’t ever want to leave.

It’s important to do something you Love for a living, to be fully grateful. Making a few bucks out of it is nice too, to focus on the postive regardless of environmental influences, to look into bleakness and see growth. That’s what we do and we can only recommend to everyone to do the same, because it really doesn’t take much.

You can miss and Love a place at the same time. It’s sometime hard to notice it before completing a few circles of utter environmental change, this includes changing the people around you. Unfortunately, there are many who seek change but never will experience it because of past habits and people who hold them back.

Vancouver is dark this time of year even during daytime. Some places celebrate life right now, and you can lay naked on an empty beach and go kayaking under the full-moon. I came to Israel to enjoy an out of the box connection with this colorful intense piece of earth that most of humanity tags “holy”.