A moment of my life over the roofs of Jerusalem

Telling you a personal story with this picture...

I don't know how many are reading this text at a time when most of the peoples are on summer vacation or escaping the heat. In any case, I want to tell you a story with this picture that some people don't want to hear. That's how I think for myself. The photo is not a beauty as such, especially from a technical point of view because it was originally taken with an analogue camera and was later digitized by me. Since I'm very untalented with computers, I probably made some mistakes while editing. Well, the photo was taken in 1993 when I visited Israel again with my family, a country which is very controversial and makes headlines almost every day. Unfortunately, you hardly hear all the positive things that the small country in the Middle East has to offer. At least that's how it is here in Europe.

The picture shows you me with my firstborn son sitting together on a wall near Mt. Scopus and its University and enjoying the view of Jerusalem, the city with a history of more than 3000 years. A lot connects me to this place and a lot arouses strong feelings in me that tears roll down my cheeks. There were moments of bliss and moments of great emotion that still touch me to this day, deep down in my soul. Sometimes I want to go back there and experience it all again, but I can't. Family means everything to me.

We never went with a tourist guide, so we were all on our own and that was beautiful and always a great adventure in worth seeing Land of the middle east. Why am I actually telling you all this? It's an important - probably the most important part of my life that I spent here. Some of you will now have questions that I will not answer here. It is deep in my heart what I and my family experienced in this ancient land. A land full of history and secrets, a land full of vitality and hope. A country that emerged from one of the darkest chapters in human history. I've made a lot of friends here, but I've lost a lot too. Life is sometimes very painful and certainly not fair. Or should I rather say the world at this point? At least that was my feeling back then and it hurts me to this day. Have I lost my connection to all of this or is there a way back for me sometime and somewhere? I want to visit you again, feel you again in my soul, the Land of my destiny.

I've made a lot of mistakes in my life, but probably also something right, because I can share with my children everything that makes life so beautiful, but also what sometimes makes life so difficult. It started here above the rooftops of Jerusalem...

My personal photography consists of many little stories and sometimes I pull out one of them to tell you. I'm actually primarily concerned here with memories that are strongly connected to my life and not with photography in the usual sense. I thank my dear friends for listening and a little bit of understanding. Maybe I'll delete the photo later. I'm kind of torn about all of this.

Love her voice, love the language:
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Taken on: January 1, 1993

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