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InteGRATion into
GRATeFULLness
Singing&Sounding keeps me Sound
IF
A note in 2007: This kind of bravery suited
me still at that time,
today I know, that the immense denial of pain and fear in this song,
even in those stanzas, which I chose as suiting me,
has neither benefitted me nor the World.
So - unlike all others of my Songs - this song serves only as a memory and
a reminder....
2007_05_15 IF I am dedicating this song to "Mowgli" , who walked me in the Walk-about-Love, who got himself killed by a rock at the sea on May 30, 2009 |
lyrics:
Adapted by Rachel Rosenzweig from Rudyard Kippling IF see the stanzas I've omitted and the two lines I've changed! |
tune: Rachel Rosenzweig [later: Christa-Rachel Bat-Adam] 1976 |
The original
poem IF by Rudyard Kippling
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Bat-Adam's adaptation and tune IF (1) (3) (4) |
2010
She writes "Mika" on a stone which she picked up from the ground |
A moment later she enjoys a green fig which she plucked from a baby-tree |
2010_06_09-14:
Mika's and my Heaven-on-Earth
Since 2009_08_01,
I employ song-page after song-page for documenting and exploring the
evolution of Mika, the youngest of my 10 grandchilden,
who exemplifies to humankind by her own living-doing, how to PLAY-FULLY
CREATE from moment to moment ZEST-FULLY
and FULL-FILLED
"....Manifestation
is meant to be a playground
where being and doing are fun..."
[Godchannel,
Second Interview with the Folks]
On June 11, 2010, Friday night, the Eve of Shabbat ,
which was also the Eve of the 14th birthday of Arnon,
Mika's cousin,
we met at Modi'in , at a restaurant with the name memorable "Titorah",
though it's located in the industrial area, far from my
and our Titorah hill,
where in 2001-2004 "the
Quartet" and I so often had our "afternoon meal".
[see the recent meeting of the Quartet in Arad - without Mika]
Mika's first two pictures ever - with Grandma's camera... |
Shabbat, June 12, 2010
After that hour of having been separate from Mika,
I could not make the intimacy return,
and the estrangement lasted for hours, even after her afternoon nap.
Efrat and I, who had to miss last night's third part of the first solo-performances
of the 27 candidates of "A star is born",
sat down to watch, what Efrat had recorded, and managed to gradually win over
Mika to let us enjoy what we watched.
Mika fetched paper and colors and drew an astounding
picture
- with the singers holding the mics and with actual notes coming out of their
mouths.
The chairs in front present the audience and the chairs above the judges.
During these days she always drew a kind of rainbow above the main scene on
her drawings.
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While Mika draws 3 grandmas (this was suggested by
her mother): grandma Rachel, grandma Miryam and greatgrandma Meme,
one of the nine candidates of this last of the three-show program "A
star is born", the Arab Hiba (=gift), sings Rachel the Poetess:
"Do you
hear my voice, my my lover?"
The
experience in the tower-park was very different from the one last week. There was no intimacy between the two of us, but I could help Mika make contact with these two seven year old girls, the twins Noa and Hadass. Though Mika is together with kids her age for almost 8 hours per day in kindergarden, she always yearns for friends in every situation. This is her mother's deepest distress, that she cannot provide a sibling for Mika. "Ask them, how they are called!" she begged,"I'm too shy to ask". When encouraging her to overcome the shyness didn't help, I, indeed, approached the girls together with Mika and asked them for their names. Their father was sitting on a nearby bench, and when he looked up from his book, I explained: "Mika so much wants to be involved!" So he urged his daughters to let her play with them. Noa and Hadass were very kind girls and tried very hard to make Mika happy. After three games hadn't really appealed to Mika, Mika herself suggested the game: "The King says!" And from then on they were "one heart and one soul". |
I once more enjoyed the beauty of this park, established
in a wadi, which ran through this landscape, before Shoham was built 20 years
ago.
There was another little girl, who watched the threesome
and followed them wherever they ran.
I asked Ma'a'yan, if she wanted to participate, but she said, she only wanted
to watch .
I wasn't sure if I appreciated this game, which seemed
to be cannibalistic.
One would lie on the ground and the other two would "eat" from every
part of her body.
But the end was always good: The two were lifting up the one one the ground
and saying:
"Come and be our friend!"
Meanwhile the twins' father, Simon, had approached
me and we talked.
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Continuation of Mika's
"Heaven-on-Earth" , in March 2010, on the Song page of May
16, 2007 |