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InteGRATion into
GRATeFULLness
Close-ups of my Past
2007_05_26: Closeup of 1971
Ronnit (born January 1965) 1971
Though I can't decypher all the details of Ronnit's paintings, but the splendour of her flower compositions seems to come from another world...
Ronnit, age 6 Watch the strange triangular roof! Inside seem to be sitting
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See also the
letters (November 1971) to my husband, from me and Immanuel, when he was
not yet 9 year old,
which give a glimpse into the life of my children's early childhood,
while I was immersed in completing my Ph.D. thesis and Naftali Raz brought
joy and delight into the family
to
former accidental closeup of my Past
to
next accidental closeup of my Past
2009
From my
family at Mazkeret Batya, Micha drove me to Modi'in,
where - on the
Titorah Hill - I met 3 of my daughter's children,
Rotem,
Yael
and Itamar.
After a while, I asked them, if they wanted to stay together,
or if each one wanted to be with me separately.
While Rotem preferred the latter and Itamar wanted to go home,
Yael, who was, as she soon admitted, afraid of being alone with me,
wanted to stay together, but was ready to cope with her fear.
Rotem walked away from us, back home
Itamar stayed for another while and then went home,
too.
From the following 2 1/2 hours with Yael I have no photos.
We were talking while walking to the southern outskirts of Modi'in.
I wanted to visit that tree, under which I had prepared the ground
for trying out and improving on my "hanging tent",
invented - created for my
pilgrimage to the Pyrennees in May 2001.
We didn't find the path to the tree, but we solved a problem of Yael's!
She longed for the youth movement "Ha-Noar
Ha-Oved ve-Ha-Lomed"
Her experience of half a year in The Scouts did not yield any friends.
"But you don't lack friends, Yael!"
"No! But friends are a way to reach what I search for in the movement!"
I explored, what it was she was really looking
for in such a movement.
"Is it something that is greater than your personal
life, school and friends?
Do you care for the community, for society, for Israel?" She
affirmed it!!
I called a non-family starchild: Dina, a post-army leader in a "gar'in".
I had all kinds of help in mind, but Dina's phone announced "busy".
This was good, for on our walking and talking back I got the message,
that I was not to take away Yael's responsibility for reaching her aim.
We figured out, how and when Yael would approach the movement.
And then, just when we were done and 2 minutes before parting,
Dina called: "Nitzan, a girl from my gar'in
is responsible for Modi'in!"
It was through Nitzan that Yael got the number of the guy,
who facilitates the nearest "ken" (nest)
in her neighborhood,
and 3 days later she entered the "ken" with her two friends.
Later I got a photo of Yael and brother Jonathan,
who - on that Shabbat - was the first time on leave,
after having been recruited to the army on Nov. 29.
[see
about my process concerning this recruition]
See the change in Jonathan's face and posture 3 years
later (K.i.s.s.-log 2008/2013
Yael entered the house of her family,
and out came her sister Rotem.
We sat on a bench across the house
and had, as always, the deepest of talks.
Too deep, too intimate to be told here.
Once, when she needed to go to the toilet,
I peeped across the fence above the garden,
in
which I had lived in my pyramidal tent,
from November 4, 2000 to April 30, 2001.
I lived there, (not to the liking of my son-in-love),
because I had no money for paying any rent.
But metaphysically it was a last stage in the R&D
of the tent of the future Desert Hosting Economy.
When we both got cold and desired to move ourselves,
Rotem agreed to walk me across
the hill to the junction,
from where I would be able to hitchhike or ... take a taxi.
So - once more - we experienced the Crusaders' fortress,
where we had met in the morning: I ~Rotem ~Yael ~Itamar.
This time Rotem climbed up to the highest spot of the wall
and was not aware, how I caught a kind of Loreley
image!
May 9, 2013: Yael's 17th birthday.
After a month she followed my advice to write down 17 thanksgivings
about her life and 3 wishes for her future.
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June 25, 2013, for Uri's 50th birthday:
Healing and Harvesting the Past :USA 1995
Dewitt's pictures, sent on June 17 and June 24, 2013 have come to celebrate Uri... |
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