Two Worlds Meet at the Lee Valley

Reaching the Lee Valley and the canal are wonderful moments. Mitzpah experiences liberation from the traffic and the lead. I enjoy the houses, every one of them with a mezuzah on one side and the clusters of men clutching tallis and tefillin bags wrapped in plastic covers. A large delivery of meat being packed into a van from a Kosher butcher. The signs on a house door saying Be'ruchim Ha’Baim with a picture of an aeroplane. And then on the other side the canal, the honking of geese, the swans and the green.