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Biographical Sculptures
GRAND MOTHER HOOD
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Second Titorah page
2003_05_07 ; last update; 2003_05_31
These photos say it all: Or so I saw it at first, on May 17. For several days I was blocked. |
For 2 days I would look at Tomer's
and my Titorah, So on May 19 I started to walk
on the rank and file road,
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In retrospect [2003_05_30]
it is even humorous,
how this happened. It was towards sunset on May 19, when I succumbed to walking on that road. And what is the first thing I observe? - a still life of a miniature chrysantheme bush! In the middle of the first, once asphalted segment. It always moves me to tears when I see, how flowers break through human suffocations. Then there appeared a tree against the horizon, shaped as a "menorah", the biblical candelabra. But the photos of both objects came out hazy: The camera had been in "Close-up" mode, for a reason not known, for I rarely use it. I was still attached to savoring details, close-ups. |
It still took me some more days,
until I finally comprehended "Tomer's" message: "Our intensive came to an end 6 weeks ago, grandma! Do not focus on close-ups and details, for some time. Our close encounter, our close wrestling, is completed. What you have been doing since then, and rightly so, is to achieve an overview - is to integrate all your experiences and understandings, into one whole, with no pain unhealed and no learning skipped, so as to reach a new platform on your life's path." And indeed, when I adopted this perspective, I saw so much beauty far and near, How had I limited myself to my narrow path longer than needed? I suddenly laughed , free, amused and grateful. |
Underview
April 2002 |
Overview
March 2003 |
Underview April 2002 |
When Tomer observed or photographed,
he saw the beauty not only in flushing flowers, but also in inconspicuous, inobtrusive plants. |
On our last picnic and walk on April 7, we marveled at "Aaron's Staff",
the flower,
and at the beatle in the color of the lichen on a stone.
On May 7, when I called my son on his trip with the last money after having
been sacked.
Tomer asked to be given the cell-phone in order to tell me:
"There is so much, grandma!"
"Tell me, what comes to your mind first."
"We have been camping above the Great Canyon.
And yesterday at dusk - he used the
biblical word: "ben ha-arbayim" -
we saw "a kingdom of stones" - 'mamlekhet-avanim'
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And he tried to convey the colors.
A kingdom of stones, as marvelous as a flower, a beatle, a lichen on stone.
His father told me, that one evening they threw a dead
branch into the fire.
"But there are lichen on it!
Grandma would have never thrown it into the fire!"
Yes, I opened his eyes to the beauty of lichen.
"See these careless teachers and kids of the
Ofeq ("horizon") school:
they claim, the one official and clear path on the Titorah is theirs,
and find it necessary to mark it with stones, coloring part of them.
[That's the reason, we could not bring ourselves
to use this path any longer].
"Whenever you move a stone, Tomer,
either because it's in your way,
or because you want to use it to mark your way,
first watch, if there are these living creatures on it,
Take care to put the stone with its lichen facing light.
Because it is by sunlight and
dew
that they live." |