hodayot [thanksgivings] for today

9:00
My Body, my Partner, my God
I give thanks to you for keeping up such a healthy biochemistry,
that no virus nor parasite (like worms in little Mika) has a chance with us!

       

I am grate-full that at least with Micha communication is now smooth,
and that I'll meet Arnon today to work it out with him.
I am grate-full that I was guided to take a small initiative towards Micha,
but when he assumed that I would coordinate with his sister's family,
I bluntly refused and said, that this was his job, embarrassing as it was.
I am grate-full that this way of action resulted in more communication
between my daughter-in-love and my youngest son.
While Efrat once more let him know what zero chance I have with R.,
he could voice his own exasperation by his sister's "reluctant" cooperation.
So non-communication of one party led to more communication of another.
And I am, indeed, "grate-full for small favors", in this case and always!

The final edition of the letter to my daughter
is only (!) about Yael's drashah to her Bat-Mitzvah
and about Yael's essay "My Journey"
- both translated into English by me.
As to Yael's two quotations
- from "The Little Prince" and from "Moshe Greenberg".
"The Value of the Human Being in the Bible".
I mentioned, how those two were meaningful in my life
already many decades ago.
as to the double meaning of Yael's quote
at the end of her drashah
"And the way is still opening (its eyes) alongside"
or :
"and the way is still opening (its eyes) to your light"
I inserted the link mentioned on May 26
and I related my talk with Yael on her Bat-Mitzvah:
"Your greatgrandfather, Franz Rosenzweig,
would have been so proud of you!"

Nourishment from Others

From a Seth clipping.
{When putting "Seth" in my "search", in order to find out
when - in K.i.s.s.-log - I quoted a clipping from Seth for the first time,
I reached the page of February 8, and discovered that on this very page
I also inserted a correspondence with my daughter
about her, my daughter's idea to teach the Benot-Mitzvah of Yael's class...,
a correspondence which was cut off by her just as fast as any other attempt...]

"In the dream state you allow yourself greater freedom,
trying out certain ideas and beliefs in the more plastic framework.
You may therefore accept new beliefs initially in the dream state,
and the intellectual or emotional realization may only come "later".
In dreaming, the conscious mind itself is far more lenient and playful.
It can afford this greater permissiveness because it well knows
that it need not immediately test out theory in the daily context.
It very willingly looks inward toward those areas of the inner self's experience
to see what it can find for its own use,
quite like an explorer searching for resources in virgin territory.

The earth-tuned consciousness must deal within the space-time context,
for only inside this famework can it clearly perceive events.
In the dream state consciousness ignores space-time relationships to a large degree,
and yet it is still firmly based upon the body's corporeal mechanism.
Dreams then are physically experienced.
You perceive yourself running, talking, eating, in quite phpysical activities
- except that they are not performed by the body that lies on the bed.

....
That kind of dream awareness can literally regenerate your life,
though the original impact will be forgotten,
and the entire event will usually be translated into images before awakening.
Such dream events may be called experiences of basic being.
During them,
the self or consciousness literally travels to the source of its own energy.
On another level atoms possess this same kind of knowing.

(Slowly:)
It may seem that such comprehensions have little to do with your daily life,
particularly since they are so seldom recalled, and then only in translation;
yet they provide you with additional energy - and when you need it most.

In periods of stress,
the physically attuned consciousness
will often momentarily forsake its usual orientation and let itself fall back,
as it were, into the source of its own being,
where it knows it will be regenerated and indeed reborn."

When we finally reached the playground of the park,
we met delightful Galli again [April 7]
that sweet playmate of Mika's in her kindergarden,
who is more than half a year younger than Mika.
It is this child, who after midnight becomes "a monster",
exhausting her parents with incessant screaming for an hour.
After Mika had once beaten Galli (May 19), Imma talked to her heart,
and since then Mika takes the role of a loving caretaker,
like here:
"Do you want to take off your sandals? I'll do it for you!"
Or:
"I'll protect you when you climb up the stairs!"