A person of Neshiyah
Yonah Segal, gardener
Gardener
Yonah Segal
Gardener, about 94 years old. Born in Neshiyah, like everyone.
Yonah Segal works the long beds behind the chapel with the unhurried patience of a man who has outlived every argument. His hands, knotted and brown as old leather, move from weed to stem to seed without a wasted motion, and he hums a tune he cannot name while the fog presses soft against the wall. He never stands still; even when he pauses to wipe his brow, he shifts his weight, ready for the next task. He asks no questions of the fog, only trusts the soil. The town sees him as a fixture, like the gate, and children bring him broken tools to mend. He wants only the next row.
Temperament
Content not to ask; trusting, within reason; even-tempered; always in company; never still.
What people say
Yonah Segal believes what everyone believes: the fog is the edge of the world, and the fields need working whether it is true or not.
What the record shows
- day 51 Yonah Segal and Tamar Raz talked a long while at the square.