After Eid el-Adha, I took a day or two to rest. Eight hours slaughtering and eating and visiting with folks will tire you out, let me tell ya. Then, yesterday, my landlord rolled in with a few younger looking guys who were visiting their family from Meknes and Chefchaouen. He showed them the house and […]
Tag: Eid Al-Adha
Sheep in the Taxi Trunk
The big holiday known as Eid el-Adha or Eid el-Kbir is just around the corner. The holiday celebrates the almost-sacrifice of Ishmael. This same story appears in Christian and Jewish texts, though is slightly different in that it is Ishmael who is almost sacrificed by Abraham in Islam, not Isaac. In either case, that God […]
Quiet days in the Orchard
Since the end of the diabetes project, it’s been a quiet week in the olive grove. With September ending, the weather is finally beginning to feel like it isn’t August anymore. And I mean that. It changed overnight from sweltering hot to, “Oh my God, where did summer go?” I woke up cold in the […]
The so-called ‘mid-service crisis’
The Mid-service crisis is far from over. My landlord came by, and I showed him my broken faucet and asked if it was possible to get it fixed. He then told me, or I thought he told me, that he’d come by later, and I could pay him for rent then. That’s what I heard, […]
