Ramona Freiman Light, Fourth Grade, Ezra Academy, Woodbridge, Connecticut
2022. I was thinking at the Kotel. What would be a meaningful wish that really is important to me that God would also like to see and maybe even listen to my prayers? Then it came to me. Well, my life is based on this picture in my head. Incredibly important, makes sense, and I have wished this many times before so God will see I am serious about it. Aaaand, I wished! I wrote it down on the paper, hearing the scritchy-scratch of my pencil on paper and the distant scraaatch of others writing down their wishes.
As soon as I put my note in a slot, I felt connected to all Jews around me, them sliding their papers into the tight space of the bricks just as I did a few seconds before. I closed my eyes in the broad daylight, and imagined. I saw lots of lanterns with secretive notes and wishes to whoever they worship, as the sky started to turn pink, then to a dark purple, navy and black. The sky filled with gleaming white stars as if they were all teeth of a giant that had 1,000 teeth. That giant had just been to the dentist to make the teeth gleaming white.
I opened my eyes and saw that my family was done as well. We walked over to a water fountain, about 15 feet ahead of us. My family kindly let me have the first sip. The air was hot and humid, but the water was cool and refreshing. Once I finished, I waited alongside my family, them taking their cold sips from the fountain by the Kotel, in the Old City, in the state of Israel.
