I am grateful to be alive. I appreciate all the love and caring I’ve received over the years from so many people but above all from my loving family.

I express that gratitude in many ways. Firstly by a simple statement of thank you and a smile.

By trying to be supportive and helpful in response.

By living a life that is sensitive to others and giving back my own blessings – received from those who love me to those around me, by being as considerate as I can manage to be, given the limiting parameters of a highly sensitive and wounded personality that carries the traumas and hang-ups inherited in the post-traumatic home of two Holocaust survivors.

By devoting myself to fighting for justice and pursuing peace in a conflicted tortured reality here in the Middle East.

By remembering and staying in contact with family and friends.

By thanking God.