The image left is not real, it only shows the architect's vision of my next project. I'm so busy that I wake up at 430 AM, at 530 AM I have breakfast with the "judge" (my little daughter), she reads the news of the latest "crimes" of IDF in the fishwrap HaAretz. Then I try to organize my day but then comes the first phone call, and an urgentissimo change is needed and my whole day starts to evolve by force of its own chaotic dynamism. About ten I check Yahoo Finance and then continue trying to catch up. It is hopeless. After siesta I decide to stop working forever and subsist on Social Security (what do I need to be happy? Cheap vodka and smoked fish?), but then a phonecall from a famous tycoon who describes his dream and how he needs ME, and I am seduced and promise the moon and the stars- maximum next Sunday morning. When I feel tired I read and weight the cardiac benefits of vodka vs. my wife's unavoidable scandal. Mostly the wife wins, I am not the man that were my pious ancestors, those giants that ended their workday ibeing carried home from the study house by the chevre.. The site of the project is on the Sorek river, so there are many complicated water-related issues. It promises to be so interesting that cant stop now. Next week we start the semester.
10 comments:
There are rivers in Israel??
Anon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophecy_of_the_Popes#Petrus_Romanus
The prophecy of the popes is coming... the end is near...
Yes, you wouldnt call them by the grand name of rivers, but there are wadis or occasional streamlets.
I was shocked when I saw the famous Jordan River and it was no bigger than what in the US would be called a stream or a creek - in most places you could wade across. And the Allenby Bridge is no bigger than a highway overpass. It's a small country and things are on a small scale.
K
Yes, these were my impressions as well, I was in the same place.
Perhaps it was wider and deeper in the past.
Anon.
Yes, it was larger in the past, before the Syrians and the Lebanese and the Jordanians (and us) us its flow for agricultural irrigation. Basically there is no more water in the Jordan, it is maintained artificially by assigning a water quota outflow from the Kinneret lake.
Even natural rivers in dry climates can vary greatly in their flow - during the dry season a trickle or even completely dry and during the rainy season suddenly a dangerous raging torrent.
K
Originally the Jordan had more than 900 million cubic meter per year flow, which is a small river but very significant in this desert. Today it is maintained at about 2 million cu m level. Most is recycled wastewater, but so are all Europe's rivers.
Columbia River in Western US has a discharge of 244 BILLION cu. m. so the entire flow of the Jordan is a rounding error.
K
It is comforting that John the Baptist did not have to deal with this problem.
Anon.
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