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Nourishment from Others
2007_12_07
COMPASSION for MYSELF
interspersed with images of the first rain in my "Wadi of Compassion" in this winter, 5 days ago.
It looks like a gallow, the signpost which says:
"Nakhal Khaemlah", Wadi
of Compassion,
I've erected it at the point where my path descends...
What Maureen's message [see below]
doesn't say,
Hear these songs in "Song-Game 2007": |
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The first rain sweeps down my little street
Khaelmonit toward my Nakhal Khaemlah,
which I pass twice to and fro to the pool, whenever I am in Arad and not in
Shoham.
From Maureen Moss, Newsletter via e-mail, December 2, 2006, [Usually I have difficulties with Maureen,
The Attribute of Compassion …resolve to discover
your infinite connection to all of Creation Beloveds,
you have judged and been judged harshly [Rachel: what about the denial of feelings??????????]
Compassion is an attribute of Divine consciousness
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For more than a year I kept cleaning the "Wadi of Compassion". When I couldn't lift a heavy stone with an iron pole in it, I erected it in a way, that I could sow a self-created sign on it, saying : "Nakhal Khaemlah" To reinforce the pole I used other discarded building stones, and between f them I stuck discarded tree-branches and palm-fronds. Most of the palm-fronds perished in the fire that somebody incited, but the branch with the little strobiles survived. The rain-drops hanging down from them on the background of the "river" fascinated me. |
Develop and nurture
compassion daily As you administer
compassion to yourself, You may ask the question, Rachel again: what about the denial of feelings??????????
[Continuation of Maureen's message:] Maureen
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Non-desert people might wonder how I can enjoy such a sight so much... |
A rare desert shrub savoring the rain!
When I passed that shrub and climbed up the Wadi
of Compassion on the other side and entered town,
I was moved by the sight of this lonely cat in the rain, under the sculpted
tree trunk which I cherish.
Where are all her companions, which usually roam around the near garbage-bin,
as I photographed a day later?
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2010
On February
23, 2010, I mentioned
that my knee and my back were recovering from a double fall on the slippery
slopes of my wadi.
Through searching for illustrations of the wadi in a
sculpture I remembered, I reached this page.
The photo with my grandkids gives a good perspective of the slope which I
shot following the fall.
The child in the middle (Ayelet) stands on the most slippery spot. If I do not - time and again - bring with me a broom and a dustpan and brush off the accumulating pebbles - I and perhaps others - slip! Of course, in time some of my devices to prevent slipping were destroyed, just as my sign and sign-post of "Nakhal Khaemlah", Wadi of Compassion. |
How funny, that at the end of the page above I delighted
in some cats near the pool!
For on the same day, on which I documented the slippery slope - before brushing
it,
I discerned this pretty scene - a cat on an old man's vehicle parked outside
the pool: