Wednesday, March 10th, 2021

A year ago yesterday, I posted here about seeing people with masks on a bus for the first time. I posted the next day and the next, keeping to a set of writing guidelines that I had made for myself. I have kept going every day since then, posting (since I started counting) 200-500 words a day.

Now, 365 daily posts later, I think I'm done. We've had a bit of a return to some of how things were. I'm frankly running out of things to say. Rather than stretch on like a TV series whose network insists that it continue after it's run out of gas, I feel that it's time to stop.

I'll still post these intermittently, as I did in the time between the end of the book "as if in dreams" and the beginning of the current crisis. But I'll only do so when I've encountered something remarkable.

I expect that the posts will become a new book, tentatively titled "The Afternoon Prayers (as if in dreams, Volume 2)." It will be in two sections, "The Time Between," covering the sparer period after the first book, and "The Year of the Virus," with the daily posts from the past year. I don't have a time frame for putting it together. It will be a far larger book than the first one, but I've already done much of the groundwork for creating it.

Meanwhile, my focus (other than my job) will be on a new project, the feature-length film "dreamtext." In it, four images of a single dancer move through a dreamscape of images of Israel, to the sounds of my city and variations of a beloved song.

I expect that the film will take about a year. I'll be doing a crowdfunding campaign to be able to make the film. I will probably continue the weekly newsletter, though its form may change. More on that as it happens. Thanks, all, for your interest, reactions, and comments. I'll still be here, so let's keep talking!