Thanks to my student, Paul, for reminding me today of this quote by Harriet Beecher Stowe in Uncle Tom's Cabin:So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
I did not see one old woman in Israel. Think about it...
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No old women? What do you make of that, Sandi?
Great quote. Thanks.
Welcome home.
Thanks. Good to have gone; good to be home.
What do I make of it? Not sure. I'm told that women over 65 in Israel make up only about 7-8% of the population. Wondering if Hitler played a role...
Also, they don't have OSHA, so it's easy to stumble everywhere you go--not very accessible for feeble legs. The stats say there are even fewer old men, but I did see a few of them. I expected to see some old women at the Western Wall, but I saw zero. Or perhaps it's that old women no longer look old to me!
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