Monday musings

It’s officially week 3 here in Croatia. I’m doing okay overall. The weather is turning and we’ve hit the point where it feels like everything is the same. I’ve also been running on fumes the last week. I want to take this week to get back to feeling good again. That means more sleep and a more consistent schedule. I perhaps got away from that a bit this past week.

Back home in San Francisco, we have the APEC conference beginning. Apparently San Francisco has looked amazingly clean as we prepare for world leaders like President Xi coming into town. Pretty much every San Francisco resident including myself is really freakin’ confused why the city hasn’t gone this earlier. It’s been clear that we’ve needed a bath for the last 10 years.

On another note, it’s been really disheartening to see what’s happening in the world right now. There’s blatant anti-semitism being displayed in every major western city. Yes, not every supporter of Palestine is clearly anti-semitic and I do believe there are plenty of anti-Hamas peaceful Palestinians out there. But over a month into the recent war, and it’s blatantly obvious there there’s a large number of supporters who do believe the Hamas mantra that Jews should be eradicated.

Between ripping down of posters of the hostages to just outright chanting it, I’ve unfortunately come to the realization that a large part of the world is just straight anti-Semitic and that number seems to be growing. It’s been awful to watch this happening from across the world and I feel for my Jewish friends.