2002_06_06; last update: 2003_05_02
Note to the Israeli song in this year's Eurovision pp17bb
and an aspect of "Training to Wrestle with Tomer"

Tomer keeps listening to - and singing - "a thousand candles in the dark will open our heart". Today I allowed him to download pictures into his folder on my screen. While I was preparing food for us in the kitchen, he called me, excited: "See, what I found!"

I then introduced him for the first time to Healing-K.i.s.s
and showed him, where I inserted his burning heart.

"Look, look! these clouds also form a heart!"

And indeed, the top of the left frame
shows clouds in the shape of a heart.

The day before there was another heart-event: 7 grandchildren were sitting around a table in the tent which Alon had composed, outside and inside. Papers, scissors, glue etc. were all on the table. I don't know who suggested the theme to work on: to cut out a heart and then to ornament it.

Yael, Ayelet and Tomer, who drew hearts and stars-of-David at the age of four.
A year ago, I showed him the RUOW books and asked him to draw their symbol.
He drew 4 pictures,
and these serve as entry to Healing-K.i.s.s. and - in 4 different versions - as logo.

"BUT" - Tomer is "diagnosed" a hyperactive, "disturbed" child,
especially since his mother took him out of the Democratic School
and put him and his brother Alon into an ordinary school.
What followed was:
psychiatrist, social worker, therapists and angry teachers,
and the imminent eviction from school.

"How does this work", he wanted to know,
when he saw the sound-waves on my screen.
"Just sing a song, record it yourself and you'll see."

I showed him how and left him alone.
When he called me, we listened together.
He sang another heart-song, also by Sarit:
"When the heart weeps and only God hears".
[See the lyrics + translation and listen to the singing of both Sarit Hadad and Tomer in SongGame 2007

He was deeply shocked:
"I sound like a girl!"
He trampled and swirled on my mattress like bitten by a scorpion.

"It's your first attempt!
and is it so shameful to sound like a girl?"

"For me it's a shame!"
he screamed, almost with tears.
I was afraid, he'd never repeat the attempt.

"You know, in your father's air-force,
when a plane crashes and the pilot is alive,
he is immediately put on another plane,
so that he doesn't drown in the bad experience."

Finally I won him over and left the room.
Though I had begged him to choose a simple children's song,
he stubbornly stuck to the heartsong and sang all its stanzas.
The result was much more to his liking,
but the demonstration of his boyhood
caused him too often to overdo the pitch.
We were interrupted and when we came back,
the file - not yet saved - was deleted.
Heart is not ready yet~~~

2003_05_02

But it was ready at the beginning of our "Wrestling".
I recorded and edited his song on December 7, 2002.