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InteGRATion into
GRATeFULLness
Singing&Sounding keeps me Sound
A little Dwarf was standing in the Garden
Updated: 2007_07_28 and again: 2009_01_26
2007_02_23 a children's song |
lyrics:
Rafael Rosenzweig August 1963 modified by Christa-Rachel on April 14, 2010 |
tune: Christa Guth [later: Rachel Rosenzweig] August 1963 |
dedicated
to Levi Bar-Gil, my "adopted" son - born 1962 and his partner Ayelet Golan, who today celebrated the "Britah" of their first daughter - No'am |
The song is cute, but the background is ...
destiny! |
2007_07_28:
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2010_04_14
Tomorrow it will be 46 years,
that Immanuel and I immigrated to Israel.
Today, at Shoham, at breakfast, Mika wanted me to sing this song,
This time my frustration with the missing rhyme in the 3rd stanza
resulted in a solution, not only for the rhyme
(though still not really following the laws of Hebrew
poetry,
where not only the vowel , but the preceding consonant has to rhyme)
but for the transplant of Immanuel's birth to Mika's birth:
she
was born on December
20 , i.e. on the 19th of Kislev,
and -counting back 9 months- it was the month of Nisan,
that she made her home & her vocation upon this plane.t
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Childrens' Songs
by Rafael&Rachel Rosenzweig |
+ Hebrew lyrics by Rafael
to the most popular song of Brahms: |
Following my
understanding of January 1, 2009,
that I should no longer open new pages on my websites, nor "do"
any intentional verbal sculpting,
I am adding my photos of the two celebrations of Immanuel's 46th birthday
[Mika: "Abba has many birthdays!" Grandma: "You had even one-two-three
birthdays"!]
to two of the R.R.R.-Songs, co-created for little Immanuel bei Rafael-Rachel-Rosenzweig
in 1964 and 1967.
Since the song about "the little dwarf and the little dwarfess"
tells about a cave,
I'm enriching this page with photos about our hike to the cave, the second
part of the celebration.
I had discovered this cave a few days
earlier
and I won over Efrat for driving a few minutes and then walking for 15
minutes to this special place.
Though she wasn't keen on it, she imagined Mika's delight, but the timing
turned out to be horridly bad.
Therefore - though we reached the "Immanuel-Cave" by ascending,
- for me it was like descending to
"Hell".
If I wouldn't know, that my daughter-in-love is reflecting the suffering "Mother"
to me, I would have despaired.
While still walking backwards with the camera in front of the three, I dared to say: "Cheer up!" Efrat's reaction caused Mika to beg: "don't quarrel!" A few steps further she "let herself" fall to the ground, so she could cry. |
A little descent with a puddle which made Mika delight, because she could throw stones into the water, and me too, when I discerned how the water reflected the Three. |
I had
visited the Immanuel Cave 3 times before: once on January 20, when Lior Oren and I discovered it and I had the idea to make it "visitable" for my son's birthday, and the last time on this morning: Though the place was relatively clean, I had to take away big junk to a place with more junk nearby, and gather the small junk in a plastic bag, for taking it home. I gathered all sizes of dry twigs, branches and pieces of trunks and composed them for making a fire. I moved a huge piece of branch towards the rock-seat in the middle so as to expand the possibilities for sitting, and from outside the cave I rolled a flat big stone, so as to create a little table. I also walled off the second entrance, because I couldn't remove a heap of barbed wire, and of course searched for little pieces of wire, so that Mika and we would not get injured. Finally - I removed any stone and threw it into the back of the cave, so as not to make Mika stumble over it, Still, when they entered the cave, there was not a sound of delight. Not even from Mika. This still pains me, and it's good, that I can cry, while reporting this. Only on our way back Immanuel, who, of course, could not enjoy anything because of his wife's gloominess, said: "It was a nice idea - this cave!" "I hope it will give Mika something to dream about!" "Yes, and perhaps Efrat saw, how pretty it is here! So far she didn't even once join our hikes close to the village, which she hates so much." |
It was stupid of me
Mika wanted to look |
On our walk back Mika mentioned, when she saw this
dry twig:
"This twig had an idee: it wanted to turn
into a snake!"
Later also Efrat saw faces in different stones,
the gloominess had lightened up a bit....
(See
how this picture lightened up my own gloominess on June 20, 2009)
[see some more photos of the cave after the photos of the first part of the celebration]
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