After a serious car accident in 1979 when he was 23 years old, Ben fell into a coma, not awakening until mid-2025. A lot of years and changes to catch up on - both with family and world affairs.
Please accept my apologies for misspelling 'now' in the first line of my message ( I hate leaving mistakes uncorrected ), and thank you for responding to it so quickly.
Yes, indeed, we nos live in a topsy-turvy world where the notions of good and evil have been inverted. It seems that the few voices that art courageous enough to set the record straight are dismissed. A terribly sad and worrying situation indeed.
Well very nice .... I did live on Kibbutz after I moved to Israel in 1971 - in the western galil near the lebanese border road. I moved to Tel Aviv in 1972... the winters were warmer.
1979? I think *I* was in a coma that year. :-) This piece made me smile, Todah Rabah.
Yes just as I watched and listened over the years so it happened. In 1973 my friend and I did consider going to a kibbutz. We ended up working in a hotel in Holland for six months instead. That was our teenage adventure. We innocently thought at the time that our parents were in the last war and it was now over and done with.
Americans often appear to be brain dead. Our "journalists" write about genocide without checking facts, and ignore genocide when it stares them in the face. They can't be in a coma because they hallucinate conspiracy theory and that requires a conscious mind. Maybe it is traumatic encephalopathy from being hit in the head with facts that bounce off. Anyway Ben, welcome to 2025. After being here a while you may wish you were still asleep.
Dear John,
Please accept my apologies for misspelling 'now' in the first line of my message ( I hate leaving mistakes uncorrected ), and thank you for responding to it so quickly.
Jean-Bernard
Yes, indeed, we nos live in a topsy-turvy world where the notions of good and evil have been inverted. It seems that the few voices that art courageous enough to set the record straight are dismissed. A terribly sad and worrying situation indeed.
Jean-Bernard
Well very nice .... I did live on Kibbutz after I moved to Israel in 1971 - in the western galil near the lebanese border road. I moved to Tel Aviv in 1972... the winters were warmer.
1979? I think *I* was in a coma that year. :-) This piece made me smile, Todah Rabah.
I remember... 🙁
Yes just as I watched and listened over the years so it happened. In 1973 my friend and I did consider going to a kibbutz. We ended up working in a hotel in Holland for six months instead. That was our teenage adventure. We innocently thought at the time that our parents were in the last war and it was now over and done with.
A little off topic, but I was 23 in that year, so it helps me visualise the staggering changes since then.
Americans often appear to be brain dead. Our "journalists" write about genocide without checking facts, and ignore genocide when it stares them in the face. They can't be in a coma because they hallucinate conspiracy theory and that requires a conscious mind. Maybe it is traumatic encephalopathy from being hit in the head with facts that bounce off. Anyway Ben, welcome to 2025. After being here a while you may wish you were still asleep.
Very good, article.
hate to be pedantic but Wuthering Heights was released in 78 so he’d be familiar with Kate Bush.