water

Labor Day marks the end of summer and with it comes the closure of our public swimming pools! Throughout these hot days of summer the open air pools in our neighborhoods and in our city parks have been a place of much refreshment of body and spirit! Although these past weeks have reminded us ofContinue reading “Water”

water is the finest drink

And soit has taken meall of sixty yearsto understandthat water is the finest drink,and bread the most delicious food,and that art is worthlessunless it plantsa measure of splendor in people’s hearts. The poem above is written by the Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali. Ali was born in 1931 in the Galilee village of Saffuriya. HeContinue reading “water is the finest drink”