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| My New Grandsons! |
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| 6 months old (late January 2008) - Omer on right, Eitan on left. |
I'm 61.5 years old and feeling a
little posterity-minded. So here's how I want to be remembered: a writer and an Israeli Jew deeply involved in
peace and human rights activism.
But here's the life I really led:
Gila Svirsky played a lot of basketball and
was quite good at it. Anyway, she loved playing. She day-dreamt basketball to relax and to put herself to
sleep at night. This was the defining character-shaper of her life. Long live team sports. Especially women's
basketball.
And I have a great family. This website
is dedicated to the three women in my life: Judy, Mieka, and Denna.
Here they are below, in that Kodak sort of
way.
| My life- and love-partner Judy (right) and me. |
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| Judy works for the UN in Jerusalem when I can't get her to stay home with me. |
| Daughter #2: Denna Brand |
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| Denna, my scuba diver, lives in Kibbutz Sa'ar. |
| Daughter #1: Mieka Brand |
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| Mieka, an anthropologist, new mom of twin boys - my first grandchildren! |
| Mieka's partner, Tony Polanca |
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| Tony's a Caribbean chef. Lucky Mieka! |
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“We
don’t believe in pressuring the children. When the time is right, they’ll
choose the appropriate gender.”
Robert
Mankoff, New Yorker, February 20, 1995
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