great amber pin!!! :)) go and see copenhagen (if you did not)!! wonderful city, modern, progressive. so interesting your cosmopolite family!! i can easily imagine living there! [...SNIP...] first snow in vienna this morning, by now everthing is gone, but you have pics attached.
shavua tov!
stefan
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On Nov 11, 2007, at 5:39 PM, Tamar Orvell wrote:
After I visit you in Vienna (this year?) and when you move to Copenhagen, I will visit there, too. Your snow report reminds me of snows we trudged through together in Jerusalem. Yet right now, even seeing the word, snow, chills me, bundled up inside my Atlanta, home, wearing Sherry's down jacket over the fashion ensemble (layers, head-to-toe) I designed to adapt to my ten winters in Boston and two in Jerusalem.
So, I am not undone that my furnace awaits the HVAC and appliance genius, Richard Missouri, to light the pilot, change the filter, and do whatever else might need doing since his visit last spring. I'm OK waiting my turn as he works through a backlog of house calls... though I advise all guests to visit during sunny hours and even then, to dress appropriately.
Neshikot, me
About the amber pin. In Stefan's previous email, he wrote, "We are on the way to Denmark on Sunday," to which I replied, "I have a magnificent amber pin my maternal grandfather gave my grandmother when they lived in Copenhagen." The photo features the pin (on Ute's amazing Nepalese necklace) and my fabulous, brilliant cousin Anat in her parents home in Jerusalem's Pisgat Ze-ev neighborhood.About Stefan. Though Stefan, who guest-blogged on Stefan's urgent message, writes, "interesting your cosmopolite family! I remind this member of my family: Bloodlines; yes, that is one way to be family. Marriage confers family status, too. And then, there is family of choice: the one we populate with people we claim and who claim us.
About Jerusalem snows we trudged through...
and watched transform into down quilts,
blanketing roofs, balconies, and wrought-iron work.
This last photo, snapped in a central-heat-free residence, captures my signature layered look. I am probably wondering, what about Stefan's pate? Will it freeze off?
5 comments:
Dear Tamar,
we are family, i got all my sisters with me - you know the song for sure! ;)
even though there are hundres of miles between us, i have you with me! ;)
barush hashem that i have friends with me, around me :))
yes, i remember this snowy jerusalem very well. how can one forget? i was excited like a small child. and wet like a soaked shmate.
neshikot rabot
stefan
Love seeing the snow, though glad it is far from my backyard!
What a fabulous amber jewel. Family treasures such as this are so precious. I have my great grandmother's French brooch filled with little diamonds. I wore it to my mother's funeral and to my father's wedding and felt a sense of comfort and peace beneath it.
Ooooo! Snow. I think I miss it until I really take a minute to remember living in it with a car that needed shoveling out. Without a car though...how beautiful it must be to see it in Vienna. I love the necklace and the picture of you. you have such a good smile, Tamar.
Brr, says the gal wearing her t-shirt as she types!
To answer your question about ladybugs:
The regular ladybug is wonderful and I think everyone has a soft spot for that one. But these are non-native insects that were brought in from Asia. They look like what we normally call ladybugs, but they're different. They smell bad and are invasive... and yep they bite... hard!
wow, i'm flattered...
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