Personal Pride for the Success of a Friend

Travel back in time with me, for a moment. It's a Saturday night in 1999, I am sitting on the floor in my friend, Ben's basement. The room is barely large enough to hold the drum set, amps, several guitar stands and microphones that it contains. But somehow equipment plus 5 or 6 people are in there. The walls are lined with blankets to keep the sound in (haha!).

Ben and Eli are jamming on their guitars while Menachem expertly wails on the drums. The three of them are in some sort of transcendental sync, one somehow taking unspoken cues from the others and creating harmony. I'm enjoying my life in this moment. My eyes are closed and I'm just floating on the melodies and letting them fill me with joy.

Fastforward ten years: Yoram and I have been in Israel as new immigrants ("Olim" as we're called here, meaning "Rise Up" good deal!) and we've been pretty much running around like headless chickens for the past 7 weeks! Last week on Wednesday night, we decided it was time for a date. We hired a babysitter and went to the center of Jerusalem to hear Remedy play at the C'nan.

They were fantastic! Passionate and talented, with lyrics that pierce the heart and music that pierces the soul, they truly were the perfect 'Remedy' for me that night! And I couldn't help feeling just the smallest bit of personal pride to see my friends, Ben and Eli and Menachem really living their dream. And of course Zack Reich on Bass - I didn't know him before, but hey! He was awesome too!

Go check them out at www.myspace.com/remedyrockandroll and tell them I sent you!!

Guys, I hope you're reading this! (And Sarah and Elisheva too!) I wish you all the blessings in the world, of success in living your passion! It's just going to keep getting better, you really have something beautiful and necessary to offer this world.