The Budget of Paradox

Sophia,

It was my birthday yesterday. I didn’t do much. Maybe one of these years, you might feel ready to say Happy Birthday to me. That would be nice.

I don’t know how much global news you absorb. More importantly, I don’t know if anyone is teaching you the context of the news. What’s happening in Israel right now has a context that is very deep, very serious, and very old… almost going back to the Bible. Jews and Arabs have been fighting since forever.

Anyway, I won’t explain it all here. I can’t, really. But what I hear in the news is that Iran could be responsible for the attack on Israel. Iran, if you look at a map, Iran is just across the waters of the Arabian Gulf from Abu Dhabi. If war begins to destabilize the Gulf region again, especially if Iran is involved, wow, that would be some great job security for me. It would be nice to put my skills to work again and get paid for it.

I hope you’re well.

I think of you, and miss you.

Dad