On our trip to Israel, Priscilla and I walked the streets of Bethlehem. An older Arab man stopped us on our walk and said to me, ‘Your daughter is very beautiful. Can I buy her? I offer 26 Camels.’
At that moment, sadly, the old New Yorker kicked in and I almost immediately said, ‘How about 27 Camels?’
This is a photo of the 27th Camel I was offered.
Here is a photo, an image, of the dead sea. It is dying. Why? Losing 5 meters a years of water, dams have been built around it by three inetrnational groups that won’t talk to one another. Sink holes in the surrounding land is also an indirect result of this daming. Each group wants the water that keeps the dead sea alive for itself. The flow in is stopping. Each international group is solely focused on themselves. A focus only on self that can only lead to one outcome, a dead sea dying.
Watch collector, husband of a quilter, Eric is a designer as a Steven Jobs designed. He redesigned NYC schools. In 2003 Eric asked me to lead a high school in NYC. Before that I didn’t liked him. He seemed to think that he was the smartest guy in the room; then, after working with him, alongside him, I realized he may not have been the smartest, but he was pretty damn close. But more importantly for me, he loved people. The last week he was on the job he came by to speak to me, along, no entourage. Just him. At scanning the security asked him who he was?
He was, is, a passionate creator who cared more about children, people than I could imagine.
Passion trumps intelligence; it is character. A, my hero-flawed-heroically for people.
the dead sea is dying. Why? At a lost of 5 meters a year, its water source is being damed up; water flows, yields and is flexible. If not, it dies, as a person.
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