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Evidence of normality on the Rooftop

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The endless hot-muggy weather has kept me more indoors than out. It's only in the early morning or evenings that I escape the AC for some fresh air. Venturing out at sunrise a few days ago I discovered that a fully grown sunflower had appeared on the Rooftop.       Over the road, signs of work on the Tel Aviv metro. A humid haze hangs over the sea to the west. To the north on nearby Yitzhak Elkhanan, a big  residential tower is going up. The sun rising through the office buildings to the east. To be welcomed by the sunflower...    At this time, with the threat (no one for sure knows how real) of an imminent war with Iran and its satellites feeling more credible by the day, and just before we head off for NYC for a family visit, I wanted to post these signs of normality. In a superstitious attempt to ward off the coming disaster? As a way of documenting the Rooftop and its immediate surroundings before the ....       Here's a small