On another wall :
more abundance
of Passiflora fruits.

While Mika
still happily plays
with her branch-broom,
Dolev, not so happily, discards it
while standing under an almost bare olive-tree.

I discern two fruits
which had fallen
to the ground
under the flowering vine
and allowed them
to pick them up
and take them with them.

We return home,
and while the kids pass
under the blooming Bougainvillia,
Mika holds
her passion-fruit like a trophy

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The Day of Toning is an experience in which attendees participate in sacred sound for 12 hours in order to assist personal and planetary activation. This may be one of the most important matrixes for evolutionary sound on the planet. Jim will discuss how he developed this concept and talk about the power of intentionally created group sound to shift global consciousness.
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"Sappri li sippur al shemesh ve-al geshem" Mika said,
when we played our little game with her eating her cereals,
today for the first time - according to her repeated wish-
with little pieces of banana..
Partly she feeds herself, or drinks from the bowl,
and partly she lets me feed her.
I sing Lior's "birkat ha-mazon ",
Let's say thanks
to the earth which makes everything grow with love,
to the sun, which gives the light,
to the rain, which waters [mashkaeh] and waters [marvaeh],
and to God who creates everything anew every day.
May our meal be blessed.
and apply "everything which the earth grows with love"
to the ingredients in her bowl!

Now she comes: 17:18

155000 people voted
for the hoopoe
as Israel's national bird
[see a video!]
[and another one]
[and another one]

From Wikipedia:
" Their habitat is open cultivated ground
with short grass or bare patches.
They spend much time on the ground
hunting insects and worms.
That diet may have been among the reasons
the Hoopoe is included
on the Old Testament's list
of unclean birds
(see Leviticus 11:19
and Deuteronomy 14:18).

"The song is a trisyllabic "oop-oop-oop", which gives rise to its English
and scientific names.

Hoopoes in human culture
The Hoopoe featured in Greek mythology. Once a man, Tereus
was transformed into the form of a Hoopoe. The character featured prominently in Aristophanes' Birds

In Islam, the Hoopoe is associated
with King Solomon
who spoke with animals,
(in Arabic the Prophet Suleyman)
and he tells him of the Queen of Sheba
and her magnificent land. Quran 27:20-28.

In classical Chinese poetry,
the Hoopoe is depicted
as a celestial messenger
often bearing news of the spring.
The Hoopoe is generally considered auspicious in China
thanks to its unique beauty

A hoopoe figures centrally in
The Conference of the Birds,
one of the central works
of Sufi literature.

Hoopoes and their blood are
often-called-for instruments
in many medieval Western magical practices, often associated with various kinds of divination and necromancy

"I'll make you a braid!"

"The prettiest in Shoham?"

"In Israel!"


How does she know the difference
between town and country?

She knows very well,
that grandma Mirjam lives in Acco,
while grandma Rachel lives in Arad,
and, of course, she herself lives in Shoham.

Also, towards "Independence Day"
she learnt about
"the State of Israel",
but this doesn't explain
the smartness of her joke:
"the prettiest braid in Israel"...