Judy Stonehill Labensohn

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Sorry I won't be coming to the 60th reunion. Hopefully, I'll make the 70th.
I will be in CLV in September, however, and hope to do a book event at Loganberry Book Store on Larchmere. I'm also doing a Zoom book launch on May 21st. If anyone is interested, email me at judylabensohn@gmail.com and I will send you the flier and registration info. Lioness Books is publishing my first book, a memoir that takes place in CLV and Jerusalem. I hope by May 1st Our Names Do Not Appear will be available as an e-book and on June 1st as a POD.

I'm following my 11th grade love for Emily Dickinson and putting some of her poems to music. Eventually you can hear them at www.judylev.com That's my pen name and stage name--Judy Lev--my coming out as a performer name at 77.
On Passover I was on a hike near the Lebanese border when Hizballah started firing rockets. It was potentially scary, but I decided not to be scared. This is a nasty neighborhood, but a love for the countryside still remains. The country is definitely an experiment, as is American democracy. Everything that seemed so strong and stable as the statues of Jefferson and Lincoln in Washington is falling apart. We're also doing a good job of abusing Mother Earth. I do my best and try to stay heathy and limber, as I am curious to see how things will work out in 2045! Love to all, Judy

David and I moved from Tel Aviv to Haifa six months before the first lockdown. It was a good decision. I bought a piano and started piano lessons, having quit in 7th grade. Now I understand the importance of practicing. I'm also putting some poems to music. Stay tuned.
This year I was "elected" to be the Chair of our co-housing project. My experience as Student Council Secretary has finally borne fruit. I can lead a meeting! We may never see a building, but we have a nice community of people who want to live in co-housing. This keeps me busy and engaged. In my next life, I will become an architect.
Gaining weight during Corona. Feeling less anxious now that I have the 2 Pfizer vaccines. Trying not to get depressed about Israel, America, climate, end of the world, etc etc. Still like to laugh and dance. Maybe I'll even make it to a reunion.

Had a creepy biology teacher in 10th grade who made us do a bug collection -- Mr. Sturm. There was no way I was going to do a bug collection because I was still scared of bugs, so I got Dr. Lieder, Tip and Tom's father and my allergist, to write a letter saying I couldn't go galavanting in fields looking for bugs because I had hay fever and other allergies. Instead of killing and pinning bugs, I had to write a report on taxonomy. I share this with you now in case you have grandchildren who want to get out of doing a bug collection.
I loved Latin with Mr. Slater and English with Mr. Burnett. Even geometry fascinated me for some reason. I loved the gym lesson when we had to dance to a poem. I danced to Two Roads Diverged in a Yellow Wood. I also liked lunch!