Speaking With My Feet

There is a saying: “Put your money where your mouth is.”  It means that you should show by your actions that you support or believe in something. Allow me to make a little bit of a twist on that saying. I’m putting my mouth, and all the rest of me, where my money is.

Beginning in January I will be volunteering in Israel to support the IDF and, on my off-hours, the economy. I am traveling to Tel Aviv, Israel mid-January. I have a few days there before I report to SAR-EL to be stationed on an IDF base. My sister and I have volunteered for 3 weeks service.

The schedule has us stationed on a base from Sunday afternoon through Thursday mornings. I’ll be working a 3.5 hour shift in the morning, then lunch break, then a 3.5 hour shift in the afternoon. Yep, I’ll be in uniform as well, rising with reveille.  I’m hoping that I’m spared the morning exercises that my son had to do when he was there way back when.  😊 I figure standing for hours, packing and unpacking supplies, will be more physical activity than I’ve done in years.

Thursday afternoons to Sunday mornings we are on our own. I hope to connect with friends and perhaps find other places to volunteer. A very good friend of mine has gifted me with funds to spend on the economy. I’m going to be looking for small businesses and other services that have been struggling to survive economically, as well as physically and mentally.

Am I scared? Actually that doesn’t really occur to me. I am more scared here in the US, with the rampant anti-semitism that is over-running the media, with the crazy haters physically attacking Jews in malls and on the street. The frenzied, uninformed, violent haters here are more of a threat to me than I’ll face under the Iron Dome.

Silence IS complicity. If you are not standing up against anti-semitism (even if “disguised” as anti-Israel), if you are not speaking out against the atrocities committed by Hamas against Israel on October 7, 2023, and against their own civilians, you are supporting Hamas and the haters by your silence. The world will never know peace if the silent majority do not speak up, if the silent majority do not speak out against the hatred and violence. I’m doing my part to repair the world. Are you?

Support the Israeli businesses. 

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ahuva18

There's not much to say about me. I discovered SecondLife by accident, wandered in, and decided I wanted to stay. This blog was a chronicle of my adventures and misadventures in SL. It also includes stray thoughts that occur to me as a result of my time in SL. Both I and my avatar are female. We both love water and the beach and gardening and parties and hanging out with friends. Updating this after quite some time. I haven't appeared in SL in many many months (probably over a year by now) but SL has remained in my thoughts. I do miss my SL, but at least I still have contact with some of my friends from there. In the meantime.... this blog has evolved to be about my RL adventures. :) Nowhere near as risque as my SL but I do keep busy. I still like all the things listed above. I didn't have any cats in SL (only ducks and a panda) so my cats feel that they should play starring roles in my posts. :) I didn't do much eating IN SL although certainly food and drink accompanied me in RL while I roamed inworld. Cooking and baking have become more fun and interesting once I redid my kitchen. That renovation took longer and cost more than if I'd done it virtually, but I'm thrilled to have a tangible new kitchen! I hope you like food and drink as well! February 2024 Update: It’s been a very long time since I was in SL. I dropped in back in 2020 when covid took over most everything. In 2022 we ripped out the second floor of our house, so that was MORE renovation. At this rate we’ll have rebuilt our entire house from the inside out! :) I retired from corporate life in 2023. It occurs to me, long after the appropriate time, that I could have started a new page, or blog, since I’m writing about RL, not SL. :). But SL changed me for the better and it’s definitely part of who I am. So I continue posting! Thanks for reading!

3 thoughts on “Speaking With My Feet”

  2. You said it better than I could. I am brushing up on my Hebrew and looking forward to sharing this adventure with you!

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