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I’m continuing to find the food I grew to love this past summer in Israel within walking distance of my apartment here in Syracuse, NY. Yesterday I ate at King David’s with Stefan and Anjuli. Light food flavored with olives and cheese certainly hit the spot for the study-break.

Munjed’s Middle Eastern Cafe is just up the street in the laid-back Westcott neighborhood niche. It’ll be nice to go there some night for tabouleh and tea, especially once the Westcott Theater reopens later this month. It’s currently being restored to its grandeur and will soon be showing independent and classic films.

My refrigerator is once again stocked with humus and whole olives. Sadly, I’m unable to get fresh pita daily from Afife’s bakery, resorting to stocking up at Wegman’s and freezing it for continued snacking.
Most importantly, I stumbled upon Samir’s Imported Food’s an hour ago, finding a store packed with zataar spices, sopping salty buckets of olives, and arab coffee with the scent of cardamom. Yes my friends, it’s time to get my bling-bling coffee pot from Nazareth down from the shelf.

My instructor introduced the course as the study of “the intricate relations that lie just beneath the skin.” Agreed. Knowing and seeing the physical structure alone opens up understanding of our body’s ability to sustain, repair and grow. Many things are suddenly intuitive when one considers what lies beneath the skin
With much of the body understood via its construct, where to we place the inexplicable? I’m wary to separate it completely along with a non-physical mind.

Instead, I appreciate more now the awe of communicating with body language, novels becoming page turners, empathy causing our hearts to ache, political passion of candidates, and rhythm inclining us to dance. We don’t need to understand the ‘how’ to realize their importance in our lives and get out there and enjoy the day.