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InteGRATion into
GRATeFULLness
Singing&Sounding keeps me Sound
When one is sad, one goes to the Sea, that's why the Sea is
Salty
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lyrics:
Original: Aviv Gefen 1992 [after his friend Nir died in a car crash] Edited short Version: Christa-Rachel Bat-Adam |
tune: Original: Aviv Gefen Edited short Version: Christa-Rachel Bat-Adam Eilat, while my bus parked at the Red Sea, February 1997 |
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When one is sad, one goes to the Sea, |
English
Lyrics: I am going to cry for you, be strong up there My missing you is like doors opened at night. Forever, my brother, I will always remember you And at the end we will meet, you know, I have other friends but they all fade away Against your unbelievable light. When we are sad we go to the sea, And like the waves So I am going to cry for you, Forever, my brother, So I'm going to cry for you, |
August 2003: It's not the salty Sea , but the sweet Lake
of Tiberias, and Alon, Mika's stepbrother, is not sad, but extremely glad.
The photo appeared on the slideshow screen on June 8, 2010, and since Alon
is under-represented in Mika's thread, I put it here.
Jonathan, Alon's cousin, said , when I asked him on his 18th birthday on April
15, 2010 about good things which he remembered:
"The most wonderful experience with you, was, when
you took us for some days to that jumping bridge at the Lake of Tiberias!"
 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 |
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]
Continuation of our outing to Yehud
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Not less joyful was our togetherness in a little restaurant
called "Nona"
(this means "granny" in Italian, and that's how
the grandmother of Ruth, my ex-daughter-in-law,
is called by her greatgrandchildren, Mika's stepsiblings Elah, Alon and Tomer).
Above "Nona" I discerned the huge letters of "Neot Rachel"
(Rachel's Oases - plural), Parents Home.
Mika wound a cloth, which she had taken with her from
home, around her neck,
held the menu card of the restaurant like a guitar,
strummed on it
and asked me to shake a sugar-bag as if it was a percussion instrument,
and then she sang...
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Wednesday, June 2, 2010
On my last day Efrat arranged that I would have three
and a half hours for an intimate togetherness with Mika.
I fetched her from the kindergarden, where she - unusual for her - jumped
on me with joy, when she saw me,
and then we agreed to go straight to our favorite park and playground with
the "picnic" put together by Imma.
 
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 The first thing, that Mika wanted to show me, was that now she could do the swinging all alone, including getting down from the swing without falling. |
The pretty couple in the background points to a less pretty experience of Mika: She was very happy to find the girl Michal, with whom we had interacted here at a former occasion. But this time she was with her brother and joined in his wild running, which was too much for Mika. After 15 minutes I discerned, that their Russian speaking mother was about to take them home. I approached her: "Is it possible that you leave Michal here? I'll bring her home later." But the mother said: "No, it's Michal who is very tired, otherwise she wouldn't cry like that." That's why Mika - in her dictation to me of an SMS to her mother's phone - see to the right- told about Michal's tiredness. |
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From then on we were among ourselves and had the best of times
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One of our lovely games, |
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Dialogs with Mika - about dying and reincarnating, about God, about Josef and his brothers etc.
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Thursday, June 3, 2010, on the morning of my departure to Arad
I don't remember what caused me to run to my room and
fetch paper and colors for Mika on the veranda,
since her mother was already urging us to come to the car - to drive to kindergarden
and the hitchhike junction.
"Are you ready to draw God as you see him
(an invisible cloud, that moves and that, unlike humans,
never dies)
and also the people who die and live again, as you say?"
She started to draw right away, but said sternly:
"I don't like to be dead!
I'll, therefore, only draw God and living human beings."
She was done within 2 minutes, but began adding arms
to the figures.
"Do they hold hands, your living human beings?"
"Yes!"
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Continuation of Mika's
"Heaven-on-Earth" , in March 2010, on the Song page of May
14, 2007 |