Edited Godchannel/body

I follow my understanding and new lekh-lekhâ on January 1, 2009,
that - after 7 years - I should no longer create new pages on my 2 websites,
but intermingle the evidence of new experiences with that on existing pages.
Since March 2009 I've been "synchronizing" the chronological process of the Godchannel.com files
with the chronological process of my photos and - if there should be time - observations of the

"Walk About Love"
continuation of May 11,2009 ; latest update of this page on July 30, 2009

A strange image:
a blooming tree, a Bedouin village down there, Evi (Hungary) walking along the sidewalk
and Stephanie with the body covered by the flag of the Walk about Love...

What a pretty trinity:
Maria (France) licking ice-cream from a Beouin shop,
Stephanie (USA) laughing at the hearts painted on the cushion of a heart,
and Yig'al enjoying what he watches

waiting for those who need some "Babylon": outside the icecream shop : Tom with her cellphone

The two friends, Uriyah and Zwi, came forward and asked me deliberately:
"Take a picture of us",
(see the gift they had given me on the night before I left),

Though wholly involved in walking-talking during this last stretch of my journey,
I did catch these two scenes:
the walkers
- with Stephanie and Sjorg wading through the river
- and Yuval and Hezi awaiting them on the other side,
and the walkers
walking through vast fields, partly mowed, partly still growing,
fields of golden wheat....

Soon we'll reach a highway under construction, near Sollelim junction.
We pass underneath and I say my final "Shalom" to the walkers around me.
~~~~~~~

While trying to find a possibility to climb up the embankment,
two people hurry towards me:
Stefanie:
"If you claim, that each of us is the producer, writer, director etc. of his own drama,
how come that I let myself be born in a rich family with the poshest of comfort,
if later I chose the way of life of the homeless and the Walkers about Love?"

"This you'll have to figure out yourself!
But just think about this:
Why did I let myself be born in Nazi-Germany,
if later I became Jewish and Israeli?"

Rotem, the photographer, also hurries towards me,
to film some "final words" from my mouth.
On May 24 he'll call me and try to persuade me,
to join The Walk on the last day of walking,
with a time and space to talk about The Walk
("since most people will not come to the 3 days Festival,
and it was admitted, that it wasn't really a part of The Walk)".

But I knew, that my parting had been like dying.
And the "euphory", which engulfs the walkers towards the end,
and which I experienced at the end of big workshops in the late eighties,
is not what would be helpful to me to do my job of evaluating The Walk.

I'm on the road again - first hitchhiking with Aatif (see below) to Allonim junction,
and from there with the son of a man from Harduf, a friend of the bridegroom.
It was a chance to heal a grudge I had had against his father for 30 years...

When we entered the field, which belonged to a compound of ruins,
which were perhaps the houses of the founders of Pardes-Hanna,
I felt exactly as I always felt, when the Walkers reached a site,
where our camp was already prepared for the evening & the night.
My trauma-of-cold is such, that I rightaway became afraid.
Even the food - though partly of better quality - reminded of the Walk.
In fact, one of the big pots was just the kind of "our" pots.
What was even more surprising at this day of my parting, was,
that most of the people, the young women and the young men,
were exactly the kind of people, with whom I had walked.

But there was also history meeting me:
Moshe Klein with his wife and grownup children, Gan & Yuval
and Albert and Mali, now religious - with four children.

Moshe and his wife Orna,
Gan and his sister Yuval

Shalev, a baby , 1999
when his parents, Albert and Mali
and I were partners.

Maya - what a beauty!

When the bridegroom is escorted to the bride, it looks like a parade of The Walk about Love

Like a wedding among people of The Walk about Love:
in the centr: the bridegroom's mother and Zipi, my starchild

The Huppah under the evening sky,
a rabbi, who sings with all his heart,
a bridegroom who talks with his father,
(see the prophecy at the end of the book of Malachi!)
and two loving couples (Zipi among them),
who radiate love to the couple under the Huppah

They are married now ~~~~~~~ they begin to dance ~~~~~~
and so do Zipi and other lovely people from Shomrei-Hagan-Holistic Ecology,
just like the people of The Walk about Love danced and danced...

Did my Walk-about-Love symbolically end with a Dance-about-Love?
Not really, not wholly...
Walking with the Walkers and parting from the Walkers,
hitchhiking to The Walk, hitchhiking to the Wedding,
the encounter with former partners, this (!) wedding ...
--- how many experiences and feelings can I contain?
I am dead-tired...

It was after nine o'clock, when an angel came,
Aatif, the Bedouin from Ka'abiye,
who earlier had rescued me into his car -with Yoram,
when I crossed the dangerous road-under-construction,
where I had said my final "Shalom" to some walkers.
"I am on my way to friends of The Forum in Tel-Aviv,
I could pass by Pardes Hanna and drive you home."

So Aatif drove me all the way to Bet-Nehemya,
while I listened to his pains as a Bedouin Israeli.
Once I asked:
"Did you lie, some hours ago in the car,
when you said in the presence of your Jewish friend,
that The Forum ["Landmark Education"] helped you?"
"Yes! But I so much want to believe, that it helped!
But how can it help in situations like the following:
Once Yoram asked me to come urgently.
I wasn't free, but I drove over to his kibbutz Hanaton.
The guard at the machsom didn't let me in.
I had to call my friend by phone and when he came,
the guard said to him about me:
"He looks dangerous"

When we reached the nightly machsom of Bet-Nehemya
(i.e."the house of Nehemya , = of God who comforts"...),
I heard myself saying - for the first time in my 45 years in Israel-:

" I'll no longer encourage you or any other Arab to stay!
Get up and leave Israel with your wife and six children!
Put an end to being exposed to constant humilations!"

Continuation of the last page of the "Walk about Love" in the Godchannel file
"Old Heart- New Heart"