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InteGRATion into
GRATeFULLness
Singing&Sounding keeps me Sound
Hiob or Job
2007_02_21 |
tune: Christa-Rachel Bat-Adam July-August 1986 |
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July-August
1986, at the time when my
bus parked at Ramat-Hasharon, an old friend came to visit me from his Moshav Rishpon: Abraham Lisod, my faithful partner from the time of "Partnership", and begged me to create a tune to Rachel's poem about Job. My (Hebrew) Bible is open at the book of Job, wondrous man, teach me, too, to bless the bad as blessing the good as a blessing for the one who beats us. If only like you we were knowing in haegae and hee to pour before you the siakh and like you would come to the fatherly lap to lay our tired head |
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when I looked behold a hand was put forth unto me and lo a roll of a
book was therein and He spread it before me and it was written within and without and there was written therein lamentations and moaning and woe [haegae and hee] Ezechiel 2: 9-10
And most obvious in Psalm 15: 4-7 about
other people's gods:
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2010
2010_02_11-13
- Mika's Heaven on Earth Since August 1, 2009, I employ song-page after song-page for documenting and exploring the evolution of Mika my youngest grandchild, whose assignment seems to be: to demonstrate to humankind by her own living and doing, how to playfully create from moment to moment "zest-fully and full-filled" [see previous composition] |
May the graciousness of Ha-Shem be upon us the work of our hands establish upon us yea, establish the work of our hands Psalm 90 end |
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Each child delivers his/her flower to Imma, but Mika's Imma proposes her to present the flower to ME. |
I watched the families
they seemed to be "normative", the fathers and mothers dressed in
jeans or tights, with similar T-shirts and blouses.
This was conforting on the one hand (since forever on such occasions I keep
seeing scenes of Jews 70 years ago....),
on the other hand I missed some colors, some ethnic variety at least, if not
some social differences.
And there - as if someone had heard me - a woman entered, perhaps in her early
thirties - she looked like Anne
Frank!
I asked Efrat and others: "who is this?"
Nobody knew.
Then I saw her talking to Efrat, out of all people my daughter-in-love.
"She wants to check, if this is the kindergarden
she wants for her child.
She was told to talk to me, I don't know why!"
Surprised at this coincidence, I remembered a doc I had seen in 3SAT recently
and asked Efrat:
"Did you know, that a treasure of photos and documents
of the Frank family was found and edited as a book?
And that Mip Gies, the woman, who hid the family in her back-room, died on
January 12, at the age of 100?"
After the
general event had come to an end, I caught Mika as she gave a performance of herself to herself... |
A weekend with lots of activities awaits us.
One of them:
to pluck "Chinese Oranges" from the tree.
Since I had to hold Mika high up, carefully,
I took her picture under the tree only later,
when she tried out her costume for Purim.
I don't remember, why she became mad at me.
When I was a kid, other kids used to laugh, that I was most pretty, when mad...
When Mika saw the harvest of our oranges, Anyway, what was important for Mika,
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Suddenly she had an additional idea:
"I want to bless over the Shabbat-candle(s),
give me a book , please!"
I pulled a small book, not a prayer-book, from the family's shelf in "my"
room
and she blessed....
The next morning, Shabbat, February 13, I found her like this in front of the television...
While Imma sits, as often, |
I don't remember, why Mika started to dance in front of the TV set |
Later that Shabbat morning the two of us "go out".
I show into all 4 directions and let Mika choose.
"You are pointing to the South", I teach her,
and that's where we went.
The pathway through the houses is short,
already after 7 minutes we reach this Eucalyptus
with a "house" built in its stems by some kids
and a mattress underneath.
Oh, this cursed mattress...
Continuation of Mika's
"Heaven-on-Earth" , in February 2010, on the
Song page of February 22, 2007 |