Bio-Grandmotherhood-Yael-2

Biographical Sculptures

Grand mother hood

Yael's
52 weeks or 365 days
of her seventh year

2003_05_11-13 ; Second of four Pages
First Page~~~Third Page~~~ Fourth Page

"Let's look for another child
and call that child Khnaebah.

July 27,
2002

Breakfast
in an affluent society.

Yael's parents
are
on leave
for some days,
and I take care of the kids in
their own home.

Arnon and Ayelet join us for part of the time.

"I see a black girl, older than the dead boy.
She sits on the ground, next to her mother,
all naked, unwashed and her hair a mess.
No one has the strength to take care.
Her belly is ugly inflated from hunger.

"Now you are talking to her, Yael.

You tell her to get up from the ground
and go to where you'll show her to go.
There will be some shibolim for her
to eat.

" "Shibolim??[ ears-of-grain] what grain?!!"
The mother weakly mocks you, Yael."
(I stage the mother in posture and voice)

" "We have been searching everywhere!
There is not a single grain or a cricket to eat!"

"But now - look -
Khnaebah's listens to you !
She attempts to get up,
and feels some strange strength.
She crawls into the direction
you point out to her.

She gets stronger and stronger and - walks!

July 27, 2002
Another
lush meal
at the end
of the day.

Micha joined
his kids for
our Shabbat
dinner.
I baked a magnificent braided Challah
and we blessed the earth for
having
brought
forth
this bread


August 1, 2002 Cooperating in recycling plastic packing material	August 9 : Charming, gifted Actress	August 13 : Ice-cream in "The little prince" in-door playground

Yael's photo of the shibolim in my room on August 6, 2002

"Finally your Khnaebah reaches a huge tree,
and there grow - unbeliebably - 5 lonely stalks,
each crowned with a shibolet ."

And I go and fetch a shibolet from my copper-vase,
and I peel off two grains and put them in our mouths.
"You see, Khnaebah is so hungry,
that she tries to crack the hard grains .
It's impossible. She will swallow them,
and maybe her stomach will digest them.
But you tell her:
" Khnaebah, have patience.
Bring the shibolim home to your mother,
and she'll grind the grains!"

So Khnaebah breaks the 5 stalks and returns.

August 13, 2002
on grandma's path
taking home figs

"But alas, she passes by dying kids.
"Why should I live, while they won't?"

"But you, Yael, are explaining to her:
"Khnaebah, it's true, you cannot save them.
But if my thinking of you can make you live,
you may be able to do something,
so that the starving of children will stop."

"Her mother has hardly a smile.
How many grains are in five shibolim?
Still she takes her two grinding stones,
and grinds the grains and adds water
and kneads the miserable dough,
and lets Khnaebah find some twigs,
and makes a fire to produce ashes
and covers the dough with ashes,
and a tiny round bread gets baken.
It's far from the size of our Mazza,
the "libbeh" we baked on Pesach,
it's the size of a cookie, not more.
They divide it in half and eat it.

August 9 and 14, 2002

The kids rarely play with prefabricated toys or with dolls. Here they play "nurses", as Yael's mother is a nurse,
and Ayelet's
a midwife.

When we watched the photo on the left on Yael's birthday, we enjoyed
the matching
of the reflection,
on both, her hair and the big bowl, which, when not used for music or other kids' purposes, serves me for making bread.

I take a cookie and divide it,
and like I did with the grains,
I give one to myself,
and one to Yael
and ask her to eat slowly.

August 12 and August 24, 2002

Delicious figs from my fig-tree
for 9 continuous weeks
and delicious passiflora
in the kids' "treasure-box",
from the plants which climb
on my 2 verandas and downstair's neighbor's fence
and 10 little tomatos
from an unsown seed.

Yael's photo of a juicy fig
towering over the dry town

"Khnaebah wants to devour it,
but her mother advises her,
to eat as slowly as possible.
This will make her believe,
that she has more to eat."


August 25, 2002 Imagination: Yael uses a disc as a driving wheel and drives to the webshot landscapes on my computer screen which changes every 20 sec.	August 25, 2002 Yael is called by Arnon, who is with his family in Holland

L O V E

	"Both, mother and daughter feel miraculously stronger. " And now do put it in your head, Yael! whenever you'll think of Khnaebah, it will make her feel stronger, it will make her want to live, it will make her find a way." Arnon, 6 weeks younger than Yael, loves her strongly. During our Passah Mazza baking [see third page: April 22, 2003] the 2 kids embraced and Arnon said: "It looks as if we are in love." "Are you? " I asked. Still holding Yael tightly, he pondered: "No--we are not in love, but we love!"
August 27, 2002 The dancing couple		August 27, 2002 Itamar's photo. Will Yael's love keep Khnaebah alive?

Though I don't know,
what kind of grains Khnaebah can find in her country
I gave Yael my wheat shibolet, to make it remind her.


August 28, 2002 - Yael, the teacher - why are two of the pupils scared?	August 28, 2002 : "Shalom, kitah alef!" "Welcome, you two new first-graders!"

We went back to the computer screen,
watching part of the hundreds of photos,
I had made of Yael and the others kids.

The scenes incited her memories
and structured her seventh year!

September 18, 2002 Yael has grown. Again they are "activated" to paint on the "stage" in Alon's "tent", but the dancing with Rotem and Tomer is now called "Disco"

September 18, 2002
And she paints
and she reads
the story about
the moon
who asked
the tailor
to make him
a dress and through trial and error
they find out
that he needs 29 dresses.
For each day the moon
lessens
or grows ~

And the 23rd in
another
moon
cycle,
October
2002,
again finds the quartet
painting
boxes
and
letting
them
inspire
them for
ever new
role-plays

October 30, 2002 And their fun never ends and their happiness shows, how it can be on Earth too (I have tears in my eyes)

2013-06-29
A post on Immanuel's and Efrat's blog by Yael's mother and Yael herself

Yael's and Immanuel's responses are very worthwhile to read.
As to the disconcertment of the two women,
I recall an advice in Godchannel>Toward More Wholeness:
"You will experience a great increase in personal power
as you near wholeness,
and there may be a temptation
to assert yourself and your rightness
against the power structure around you.
But this will be unnecessary,
and for the first few,
important to avoid entirely.
You will be able to 'slip through the cracks'
of the matrix of the dominant power-over paradigm on Earth
because you will have nothing to say and nothing to prove.
What has been happening in yourself
and in your immediate peers in healing
will be the only proof you'll need."