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InteGRATion into GRATeFULLness
Fine-tuning to my Presence
2007_09_17
Mika's FULL-FILL-ments (1)
[see
Overview of Mika pages until October 13]
Watching and interacting with Mika, my little granddaughter
(21 months old),
who still knows, how to
create Heaven-on-Earth in each moment of her life.
[I read and enjoyed part of this page again on
2010_05_17- see
my latest experiences with Mika]
See also - below -
Mika's photo-documentation of her home in June 2011
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Dream [see also: "O Heaven on Earth"] I dreamed a dream a long time ago 'bout a land where the rivers run wild Where flowers grow wherever they choose and the breezes blow gentle and mild. Where the trees stand in silence, yet singing their song in natural harmony Where the earth freely gives to nurture all life and creation is boundless and free.
I dreamed a dream a long time ago About people who know how to live Their words and their deeds are simple and pure And their love they most willingly give. Each day of their life is a reverent prayer Their joy fills each moment with light, And the peace found within is reflected without Like a day softly echoed by night.
My dream slowly fades with the passing of time. Yet my vision grows clearer each day. I know what a wonderful world it will be When we each know the part that we play. But each one of us must find the truth for ourselves and live it the best that we can. And I'll sing my song just as you will sing yours What a beautiful vision of man. |
From a letter to my friend Gabriele Dietrich
in India, Sept. 17, 2007, today But "Firing
the Grid" is not only about "acknowledging the wondrousness
of life". "share your greatest human
joys! The healing of the child is, as you read, a metaphor for the healing of the planet.
Ever since the age of 16 I've tried to help people to do the work,
For 30 years I believed, that the root of all misery is the "Cain"
in us, Victor
Frankl, Logotherapy, "Man's
search for Meaning". Yes. That there was a tiny beginning of this in "Firing the Grid"
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From a letter,
July 31, 2006 "Two days ago Immanuel, my son, - in a 50 min. phonecall from Naharia , where his wife and baby are hospitalized after an almost fatal accident, and suffering in the underground shelter since the beginning of the Israel-Lebanon war,- has voiced for the first time, that he would like to move to Shoham. Being a pilot he is sick of always having to travel for 2 1/2 hours after and before flights, but his wife would not agree to leave her family and friends and move to a place which was close to the airport. Now he voiced: "Shoham". Since I knew, that once they would move, I was supposed to be with Efrat and the baby, whenever Immanuel would be on flight. Shoham for them meant Shoham for me." completion on September 17, 2007 |
August 1, 2007; 7:10 AM- beginning of my diary
about Mika's Full-Fill-ments.
The photos on this page were made a week
later,
when we bought my new cell-phone with camera
Morning "Routine", August 1, 2007
A new day begins - without Abba, who is on flight
Imma, I'm awake! She pulls her music! |
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Sometimes she allows me to be near her and even
let our feet touch
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With bottle, book and TV , morning program for small children |
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After a week, when I had the new phone-camera, Mika was already less interested in her "house", so - for the sake of documenting - I photographed Arnon, when he too was taken by playing with the house and the tiny flower pots.. |
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On another morning Mika watched a song, which always moves me to tears:
"Ratzah ha-qippod im
mishaehu lirqod",
"The hedgehog wanted to dance with somebody".
"Mika, come to wash and brush your teeth!"
Mika follows, gets up slowly, while still watching
the hedgehog's dance with itself.
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Imma gives her
a brush of her makeup and says: "You are prettier than imma!" Then: "Let's go!" "See you, grandma!" Or: "Shalom, Shalom!" "malit", she says, when she reaches the elevator |
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Just to let everybody
know: Mika so far has no share in the pattern of her mother and grandmother, the pattern of always wanting to please other people. On the contrary, she is rebellious, and even if she knows or understands, that a certain instruction has to be followed, she will not do so rightaway , but in a roundaboutway, "she will do it HER way", quotes her mother the famous song. [June 2011: Now her mother is troubled, "because Mika always wants to please people"] Sometimes, she doesn't know the limits, and there then is the nice "institution" of "the corner of thought", "pinat-hamakhshavah". It's far from a corner of punishment, as was the usage everywhere when I was a child. We had to turn with the face to the wall. No, Mika sits under the mirror and looks right onto the stage of her acting. She may cry a little, express anger a little, and already imma comes, bends down to her, talks to her to make her understand and then asks: "Do you want to say "slikhah"?" It doesn't take long, until Mika says, she is sorry, A hug, a kiss, a laughter and back to the stage of joy. |
An early evening with Abba alone, before he goes on flight
And Mika usually sleeps quietly, except for a nightmare
now and then
(from where did she bring material for a nightmare into this life???),
while Abba takes care of some e-mails and other work,
and then gets ready to fly to New York, or Los Angeles, or Hongkong etc.
to former sculpture of my Present to next sculpture of my Present
June 3, 2011 - Mika's photos - p.1
"I'm documenting everything in our flat, so that
you, Grandma, will remember!"
[see
context:]
Grandma:
I did not change Mika's perspective
, i.e. I did not crop out, what I, in my case, would have emphasized.
I only down-sized the originals and automatically
adjusted the colors with the help of my software "Firework",
nor did I change
the order of Mika's choice - - - or delete less attractive photos.
Her parents' bed and behind it the corner of the "studio", in which Mika slept, till her own room was built, and her bed was installed in its own corner. [See the first photo on the following page] Why did she choose this ugly perspective, instead of photographing the double desk with the two computers etc.? |
Continuation of Mika's photo-documentation of her home on June 3, 2011