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InteGRATion into GRATeFULLness
Fine-tuning to my Presence

2007_10_02

Mika's FULL-FILL-ments with Abba

See also - below - Mika's photo-documentation of her home in June 2011

There it is ! Just next to my little castle and garden!
Another wall - low enough for Mika to climb on,
at least with some little push from Abba.
But first she examines,
what can be discovered in the wall while standing on the ground.

How funny that round hole ! What purpose does it serve? Mika, in any case, gives it a purpose, she fills it up with all kinds of little items, she finds next to it, withered blossoms, autumn leafs, berry-like fruits, and especially needles from an unusual tree soon to be discovered.

Now she sits on top of the low wall,
with an olive between her fingers, and grandma's bracelets on her left arm.

The latter indicates the beginning of a ritual ,
which always takes place, when Grandma is with her.
Maybe it is the only ritual in her constantly changing activities.
For whatever she inquires, a toy, a leaf, a ring,
or whatever activity she immerses herself in,
she savors it to the fullest,
but then she lets it go and usually does not return to it.

"She exhausts things fast", says Imma,
sometimes irritated by the fastness of it.

In the meanwhile the son-in-law of my neighbors enters the house.
Since it was the Succot festival, Nizza's and Shalom's Succah was full with family.
One daughter is religious and has many children.
When I introduced Mika, her husband suggested, that she use the swing in their backyard.
I said: "Thank you very much!" but I knew, that today Mika had bigger challenges.

Soon enough we were drawn into them, Immanuel and I.
I don't know, who plucked the long "tails" from the strange tree for Mika,
but her wall-enthusiasm grew even more

Now comes the combination of "big minds":
I present her a long green tail with my ring threaded on it.
What an idea! thinks Mika without saying a word.
She takes the ring from my tail and tries to thread it on one of hers.
"Hafukh"! she understands, "the other way round",
i.e. she will be able to thread the ring only from the thicker end.
But then the ring rushes all through the tail and falls to the ground.
Quickly I make a knot at the end of one of the tails -
"quickly" - but she caught me doing this and was delighted.
She tried it herself - so fast , that I missed photographing it.
She succeeded and we clapped our hands!

She gets down from the wall,
she runs a few yards,
she enters my gate
and shouts:
"Imma, Imma"
her hands full of green tails!

to former sculpture of my Present    to next sculpture of my Present

June 3, 2011 - Mika's photos - p.5 [and last]
"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.

Mika's photo-documentation of her home, Continued

A real flower and an artistic flower

A different perspective of the mess on the veranda table includes Mika's album of stickers -
but see - below - an additional photo from yet another perspective on a pretty, clean table

A corner, which I cherish
- under the staircase to the left and the piano (which was once my own) to the right,
Immanuel's guitar and musical notes - not much in use lately to my regret -
together with the hanging musical bells and the standing "raining tube".

In case, you can't identify this item: It is a very special lamp

And once more, but from a different perspective, the table in front of the sofa with Nella underneath. I admit, that in my own home there would be less of a mess on this table and other tables...

Now, Mika presents a few closeups

Once again that not so interesting flower-pot, and then the green shining glory of a soup-pot!

three different perspectives of fridge and freezer- between the entry-door to the left and the corner of kitchen-machine and dish-washer to the right

Imma has her laptop on her lap. She scans through old photos with Mika, and Mika photographs each screen. Of course, the result was bad, and so - from among 12 photos- I chose only the one, which conveys how Grandma and Mika - perhaps at the age of two - were making fun with each other.

the last 3 photos seem to convey, that Mika is getting tired and does not focus as she focused before

"See so many flowers", she explained when she took this boring picture

And once more in her/my room, with the hidden head of Nella, between two colorful cloths.

End of Mika's photo-documentation of her flat "for Grandma, so she won't forget".
Back to Shoham, June 3-4, 2011

En-JOY-ing and growing with Mika and my Family following the documentation "Mika's Heaven on Earth", inserted since Song Game 2007_01_01