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See below: December 25-31, 2010~~~~ Finetuning to my Present
Scroll down to enjoy the camels & and lovers in the desert of this day...
The ugly sand heaps are remnants of old army activities
This composition I caught on an army-clean background One of the mothers and her baby The two youngsters
On the background of two Arad neighborhoods: to the right: "Shaqed" (=almond), where I live, to the left : "Rotem" (=broom, in German: Ginster) I greeted the couple, asked them,
if they had ever seen a "rotem" around here
Turning around I watch the movements of the couple through the tamarisk branches~~~ their two cars ~~~ the man gets out of his typical Bedouin pickup and walks down to his camels~~~ The woman finally walks towards him ~~~ he comes back~~~ they walk towards each other ~~~~ they meet
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Finetuning to my Present
Arad, Shabbat, December 25, 2010;
continuation of Dec. 24
On
November 23-24, 2011. |
See more pictures on what may be - for a long time - the last page with "EnJOYing and Growing with Mika and my Family" |
I have seven days to accomplish
the journey of parting, If this is another lekh-lekhâ,
where am I going to? |
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Elah,
my first grandchild, born 1987_08_07 sitting on my bed above the water-tank in my bus Itamar, my daughter's 4th child, born 1998_02_24, gathered all the family around himself at his Brith, Ronnit, his mother, and Uri, his father, with Jonathan, Rotem and Yael, his siblings. Immanuel and his first wife Ruth with their children Elah, Alon and Tomer - no Mika yet, Micha and Ra'ayah and Arnon - no Ayelet yet, and me - with the same cut hair as in Dec. 2010 |
Ayelet, Arnon's sister, |
More signs towards my third assignment: the compositions at the end of the page with a Swedish love-song, and the fact, that the birthday party took place in the "Violet House" of Shoham!.
After I closed the
page of Ayelet (her Bat-Mitzva-party was on Dec.27,
2010)
with the same statement about the end of my
grandmotherhood,
I opened Learn&Live14,
which follows this one,
in order to re-use it in January 2010
for Closeups to my Past, Finetuning to my Present, Nourishment for my Living
I was stunned to see Learn&Live 14 interspersed with photos of the "Quartet"!
But this "happened" - not in order to change my understanding
about the end of 23 years of having been the best of grandmas,
but in order to help me 'reap my harvest' with joy and fulfillment
and then let go.
Rafael Rosenzweig , 1922-2001, was married to Ines Cohn from 1946-1963 and to Christa-Rachel Guth from 1964-1981
Rafael Rosenzweig's descendants
I n e s Dita &Gideon |
I n e s Joel &Tova Ran (&Shir)
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C h r i s t a - R a c h e l Immanuel & Ruth |
C
h r i s t a - R a c h e l Ronnit & Uri Jonathan 1991 |
C h r i s t a - R a c h e l
Arnon 1996
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2010_12_30-31
[following a
passage, I wrote in 'Closeup' on Dec. 29, 2007
at the end of page 33 of "Liberty through Responsibility", 1975]
Perhaps I must not give so much attention to my failures,
they are either failures because I still need triggers
("socks"! – everything, that has to do with the crazy cleanliness
of my mother)
or because I am "too good", "too giving".
It is very, very important: I must NOT
hold back!
But I must take responsibility for the results of this!
Sometimes there is a relation
between those bad results and the triggers I still need
or the judgments and beliefs I still have to release.
But if I fail in preventing Efrat or Mika or anyone else to humiliate me,
I no longer want to "f
i g u r e o u t ", how to cause them to respect me.
I want to just let go and smile, not blame them nor blame
myself, just trust,
that it's not me, who has to limit my loving and giving
by disciplining myself,
other than to stick to the decision - not to initiate
but to be always available.
It will be YOU, who will set the limits, and if you don't, it means,
that I have to learn something.
Please help me to really internalize this insight and then apply it!
see my coping with what was "staged" in our family-drama from October
28, 2011 onward,
as hinted at (not more!) in page
and page
and page
and page
On that morning, November 23, 2011, I discerned the tiny slideshow image above
the date on the opening screen of my computer:
I opened it full view and print-screened it in this size, though somewhere in
my archive there must be the original scanned photo:
It is the only photo which shows me on my motorized bike, the moped, which I
drove for at least 5 years.
The scene shows me behind our house at Ramat-Hadar/Hod-Hasharon, with Immanuel
(4) and Ronnit (2) on my way to their two kindergardens.
Mika, a small baby, had to be left alone in his bed, when
I was on this assignment, except on this day, on which his father, who made
the photo, was home.
Driving forward from the back of our house:
What image could symbolize better my 24 years of motherhood and my 24 years
of grandmotherhood?
The end of motherhood was indicated, when my firstborn married - at the age
of 24.
Last year I explained the coincidence or "23 years" with the fact,
that during Immanuel's first year I was free to be a mother only part of the
time.
But now it seems, that my decision to part from "Grandmotherhood"
- the way I had lived it - can be carried through only now, after 24 years!
Continuation of "Finetuning to my Presence"
on January 1, 2011