hodayot [thanksgivings] for today

10:40
My Body, my Partner, my God
I give thanks again to our metabolism (see clear video teaching!),
the "flow of energy and matter" , which keeps us alive.
The more I learn about you, the less I seem to know:
Socrates: - I know that I don't know
[see a site with Latin phrases]

Time in a Bottle:
"But there never seems to be enough time
to do the things you want to do,
once you find them!"
Though I still feel addicted to my greed to create
I am also immensely grate-full
that I, indeed, did "find the things I want to do",
and that therefore my daily life - from moment to moment -
is "excitement and full-fill-ment".
I go to sleep and I wake up excited with what I want to create on kisslog,
and if I could die to my greed to complete,
I would also go to sleep feeling full-filled and wake up feeling full-filled!

Nourishment from Others

The Wonder of the Byssus

Yesterday I saw a doc in 3 SAT about how the silkworm influenced history.
A part of the doc gave me completely new information about a method of silk production,
which does not kill the animals, though the silk is also produced by animals - by sea-shells!
Today there is only one woman in Italy who still knows the art of working with these shells.
And she, Chiara Vigo, is the one who stands on the beach and sings to the sea,
hoping to prevent from the big fishing-boats to destroy the sea-flora near the shores.

When I woke up and for no reason turned my head to the shelf above it, I exclaimed:
"Oh it is byssus, from what my golden skarf is made",
the golden scarf given-bequeathed to me on my wedding by my mother-in-law, Edith Rosenzweig-Scheinmann, April 1964,
and which - serves as a cover of part of the book-shelf, which I made of junk plates I found outside the house.
[This photo was made a few months after my settling in this castle - when I still hadn't solved the problem of curtains]

It gives me such joy, this scarf, and now even more - since I can associate it with the byssus of the Bible,
which then was intertwined in the building materials of the mobile tabernacle in the desert,
as well as in the clothes of the Levites, the singers, and even King David "cuddled" in it.
And though they say, that the biblical word "butz" , from which the word byssus derives, means fine linen,
and that the sea-silk is called "shesh" ,
the translations are so contradicting,
that I reached the conclusion that it doesn't really matter, and that the point is something else.

The more so, as at the same time, when I was playing with the byssus issue- [as if I had nothing "else to do"...] - ,
the mute scene of the Big Brother House showed the people dressing up in silky dresses , in gold, silver and red,
for some mystical assignment, which I couldn't get.

It seems that the coincidence with the sea-silk phenomenon, about which I learnt in 3SAT yesterday,
- in the context of all the fantastic-artistic materials described in the Bible
( see for instance the description of the place in the Persian palace, to which Ahasveros invited all the elegant world: Esther 1:6)
and finally with the Big Brother Assignment
means nothing but:
"ENJOY to WATCH and SENSE and PLAY with the BEAUTY of NATURE and WO/MAN",

the pen shell is dug into the oozy-sandy base with a third of its valve by its sharp pointed end

the pen shell (pinna nobilis) with tuft of silky byssus threads

sea byssus manufacture in sardinia (sant'antioco), 1920 ca. courtesy museo etnografico, sant'antioco

raw sea byssus threads and byssus filaments

chiara vigo in sant'antioco, sardinia is one of the few women today, who are still manufacturing byssus cloth.

Esther 8:15 And Mordecai went forth from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a rob of fine linen and purple; and the city of Shushan shouted and was glad.

"And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen butz and all the Levites that bore the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the singers in the song; and David had upon him an ephod of linen bad [i.e. "butz" is "fine linen" and "bud" is "linen"??????] See another verse in which the singers are dressed in Butz:-byssus Chron.II 5:12 Especially interesting is the joinder "haevle-butz " in Esther 1:6 "bordered with cords of fine linen and purple"

[The next day, Oct. 17, I completed the page of Sept. 27 and inserted "eshet hayil" and read -in Buber's translation: "Byssus ist und Purpur ihr Kleid". In this case the Hebrew word is not "butz" but "shesh"!]

Nourishment via TV

While eating my lunch, I zapped into a movie, a "usual" love-story, but in an unusual setting - among the Sámi people in North Norway, on the background of a problem which I know all too well from Israel: the nomads - be they Sámi or Bedouin - are pushed back by new settlers 3 SAT: Laila - Liebe unter der Mitternachtssonne Laila, 1958, Sweden, Director Rolf Husberg Nordnorwegen an einem kalten Wintertag:Das kinderlose Paar Aslak und Elli findet im Wald ein verwaistes kleines Mädchen namens Laila. Ihre Eltern, weiße Siedler, sind tödlich verunglückt. Aslak und Elli, zwei Samen, nehmen das Kind bei sich auf und ziehen es als ihreTochter groß. Laila wird eine schöne junge Frau. Als sie im heiratsfähigen Alter ist, hat sie zahlreiche Verehrer, darunter auch den reichen Mellet. Lailas Vater Aslak möchte unbedingt, dass die Verbindung zwischen Mellet und Laila zustande kommt und seine Tochter richtig heimisch wird in der Welt der Samen. Deren Lebensraum wird immer stärker eingeschränkt durch die Ansprüche der Siedler. Diese kaufen das Land, zäunen es ein und nehmen damit den Samen, die als Nomaden leben, die Freiheit, mit ihren Herden auf alten Wegen ungehindert durch das weite Land zu ziehen. Misstrauisch beäugt Aslak daher das offensichtlich beidseitige Interesse, das Laila und der norwegische Kaufmann Anders Lind für einander hegen. Tatsächlich ist Laila unsterblich in Anders verliebt. Mellet bleibt das nicht verborgen: Er ist rasend vor Eifersucht und zu allem bereit, um Laila für immer zu besitzen. "Laila - Liebe unter der Mitternachtssonne" entstand 1958 als schwedisch-deutsche Koproduktion und ist eine romantische Liebesgeschichte, angelehnt an den Roman "Laila" von J. A. Friis. Die Kamera führte der Schwede Sven Nykvist, der als Kameramann von Ingmar Bergman Filmgeschichte schrieb. "Laila - Liebe unter der Mitternachtssonne" wurde komplett digital überarbeitet, sodass die Schönheit der Landschaft hervorragend zur Geltung kommt.