.I snapped this picture from a moving bus, so I couldn't stick around to see if the workman at Hadassah hospital was going to be rising heavenward or if he was to be lowered over the side of the hill, "going to hell in a handbasket."
This strange American saying describes a situation headed for disaster without effort or in great haste.
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I think the frenzy of construction, year after year, sometimes 24 hours a day, at the Ein Kerem campus of Hadassah Medical Organization is heading for disaster.
The constant noise, dust, density, and congestion caused by the construction there can make a healthy person sick. And the poor patients . . .
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Only a big wooded valley separates that monster on the hill from my village on the next hill.
If it ever starts biting into the Jerusalem Hills and encroaching on the forest and spreading in our direction . . . oi veh's mir!
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But at least it makes a good sky picture for SkyWatch Friday, right?
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hee hee
ReplyDeleteOnly this morning, «Louis» saw a car with a bumper sticker on it reading "Where are we going and why am I in this handbasket?"
That is something else. Hanging inside the basket is a lot of courage. Happy SWF!
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It does make a good sky picture!
ReplyDeleteI've always thought that quote was peculiar. I hope that contruction gets done soon, for everyone's sake!
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Comfort Spiral
I begin really to feel that I wouldn't recognize the area after twenty years!
ReplyDeleteYou could publish a book,
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Love the way you rescued the picture. I don't think I could have left those souls either!
Jan
GDP
That's a photo that stirs the imagination. What happened to the man? What is the construction for?
ReplyDeleteBut first of all I want to thank you for entering my name on the ABC list! I had a nice holiday together with the family.
We Americans do have some strange sayings, don't we?
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Sky Maiden Singing
Old Piñon Bones
Hi Dina, I hope all this development never crawls across the valley to reach your quiet hill. Thanks for your note about the Armenian Museum. If you do get back to Jerusalem's Armenian quarter, I think a post a post about it would be fascinating.
ReplyDeleteShalom all, I really enjoyed and agree with your comments here.
ReplyDeleteJan, not a book, but I did do two posts on what you suggest:
http://jerusalemhillsdailyphoto.blogspot.com/2008/09/i-is-for-idioms.html
http://jerusalemhillsdailyphoto.blogspot.com/2008/10/onomatopoeia.html
Wil, that's the mystery, what the man was up to (or down to).
Hadassah is building a parking garage for 1000 more cars, and a new hospitalization building, research facilities, more classrooms for the Hebrew Univ. medical school, and who knows what else. There already is a shopping center there.
They must have a lot of money from Hadassah women abroad.
Very well described! Nice picture too taken on the move!!
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Oh yes! Definitely a good photo for Skywatch!
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