Cyclamens from Galilee

He had a chance to be with them for a short time when they were stranded as refugees before they were huddled into the notorious 'refugee camps'. In all of this there were tales of little successes and of great failures. On many occasions on relating some of those stories of personal experiences to friends or colleagues, he was urged to write those down for the benefit of future generations. He took up the challenge in 1998 following his retirement from a teaching job at the Children's Hospital of Oklahoma. The family had moved from one country to another running away from situations that were intolerable. We never considered ourselves refugees; but still there was within us a subtle feeling of non-permanence that sometimes surfaced as a consciousness of 'exile'.