Plans and "Now Reading...."

[ezekielsdaughter]

Well, I’ve made the deposit on a trip to Israel.  Oh, the pain of writing that check!  I got home to find that my renewed passport had arrived. So I am ready to escape America if necessary.   Now the first stamp in my book will be from Israel, inshallah, just as it was the first in my original passport.

I recall how many Black folk retreated to Europe to preserve their life and/or sanity in the past.  Where would I go if the U.S. went through one of its fits of madness now like it did in the 30’s or 50’s?  Europe is becoming more anti-Semitic.  I don’t know enough about African politics to know which countries are safe.  Israel wouldn’t count me as Jewish because I am Reform.  The world is a tough place.

What books have I been reading?  Next from the library is “Lavinia” by Ursula K. Le Guin and James Morrow’s “The Last Witchfinder”.  I haven’t started the first yet, but I am enjoying the second.  I’ve loved Morrow’s books in the past and I had tried to read the “The Last Witchfinder” before and found it too dry.  For whatever reason, it is flying by now.