Wheels in Motion

In the streets of Ramallah the pulse of human life beats loud like a diesel engine.

 Pneumatic hammers cut boxes into solid rock.

 - and architects and contractors are busy filling them with brand new buildings.

Driving 10 ton loads of rock up and down the hills of Ramallah is not an easy task, and the trucks are new and well maintained.

 . . . and everywhere one turns . . .

If the world is in recession, if indebtedness plagues the nations of the world, if war threatens, and if political uncertainty were really the case in this most uncertain of places . . .  then one can only wonder at how we will cross the street if peace and prosperity arrive.