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InteGRATion into
GRATeFULLness
Nourishment from Others
Last Entry in the Fourfold Path of
InteGRATion into GRATe-FULL-nes in the year 2007
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Living with Joy-full GRATe-FULL-ness
interspersed with notes and diary-entries written in
2006
and photos of one part of one joyful - exterior - event:
the Celebration of Self-Love :
Mika's second birthday.
This last page of 2007 suits all the three pathes of
Closeups to my Past~~~~~~~~ Finetuning to my
Present ~~~~~Nourishment from Others
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Living with Joy, p.93
On the other hand, if you look at your body and make it wrong, saying
Living with Joy, p.107
Living with Joy, p.126 Some of you define balance as boring,
To some the thought of balance and stability means a void of emotions.
Often people create upset and problems all around them Some of you depend on intense emotions
to feel alive.
People need different things to maintain their balance. There is a balance between work and play, Some of you keep going long after the energy to do something has
left.
Some people feel balanced when they feel peaceful.
Living with Joy, p.143 Freedom is your birthright Children make constant and ongoing decisions about the nature of
reality.
[I noted there: "they reflect my denial"] Other people act as mirrors to show you something
Living with Joy, p.147
Most people respond in habitual ways, Power comes in knowing that you have a choice.
You do not need to change other people
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Since the "Living
with Joy" excerpts provide me with further space,
Today, a year later, and while
Mika stays on in the kindergarden
Then, there is the flat,
small, but comfortable, even beautiful,
Through the window of Immanuel's
desk , beyond the veranda wall
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The veranda is, in fact, the space, in which the family has lived most of
the year,
whenever Abba was home from New York or Hongkong,
and Imma was home from working as the producer of a local newspaper,
and Mika was home from kindergarden,
and also when Savta came from Arad
and Elah, Alon and Tomer came from Tel-Aviv.
Through the window and mosquito net of Mika's room
the veranda is seen,
- with Tomer, before all the guests arrived.
The ugliness of the ruined hill, which can only be guessed across the veranda,
appears "clearer" in the little reflection to the left...
When Mika had her afternoon nap, the two cousin-friends,
Tomer
(Immanuel's son) and Rotem (Ronnit's daughter) asked me,
if I would go out with them (into what is left of nature on the hill across
the veranda).
Like on the
usual nightly walk (Tomer and I), many things were told, which would deserve
an extra page.
For instance, I said, that the
song Tomer had sent me via "Skype" was a great gift for me.
Rotem: "It's
simply banale".
This time, I think, I could show her,
why it's not banale at all,
to imagine,
that and how
"one day we shall perhaps become whole"
and therefore "equal".
While I was working on this last - threefold - sculpture
on my "Fourfold Path of InteGRATion into GRATe-FULL-ness"
my daughter sent me Rotem's essay about two
novels by David Grossman,
the second with a title that could
have been taken from "Godchannel":
"In the Body I understand"
[in
the translated edition: "Her Body Understands"]
Rotem
is 12 years older than Mika, and Mika
will proudly follow in her footsteps, of this I am sure.
Living with Joy, p.154
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Since this was to become the last passage relevant for me
in Living with Joy
I'll read it again today, the more so as it pertains to the new in my life,
not the new which exchanges the old, but which balances the old:
"Opening to the new
takes a willingness to view the old not with hate or anger or disgust,
but with compassion.
Many of you leave a relationship in anger,
or you buy a new car when you are mad at your old one.
That is one way to leave the old and embrace the new.
As you follow the path of joy
you can learn to open to new things
while you are in a state of acceptance and peace with the old.
When things are not going well in your life,
sometimes you gather the motivation and energy to change them
by becoming angry or choosing pain.
It need not be difficult to leave
the old and embrace the new.
If you start thinking of what you want,
how you would like your life to be,
you begin easily and automatically to draw the new to yourself.
Through the flowers on the veranda it is possible
to find a perspective on the ruined hill
which shows only the beauty of sky and earth.....
A
famous Rosh Hashanah song may now - 23:59 - accompany the transition from
2007 to 2008:
"Next year we shall sit on the veranda ~~~ you
will see, you will see, how good it will be - next year"
How grate-full I am for this year, it was a good year, a very very good year!
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