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 am "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 March 17, 2009 ; last
update of this page: June 29, 2009
Jac helps me to cross the mountain in the
last light of the day
and thanks me for making him feel "useful"!
It was a dangerous decision taken by the
organizers, to take this challenging trail,
while we could have walked along the Wadi and reach the camp comfortably
But on top the people feel elated
Jac and Lim are not aware of the danger
: the need to descend the most difficult passage of the 22 km
walk on this day - in darkness
Finally we manage and only Eran, who had followed this route against
his better understanding, keeps trembling for hours
The night from March 17 to March 18 we spent in
Makhtesh-Ramon/ Saharonim Mountain
The moon is still visible, when - in the morning
- I creep out of the many layers wrapped around my body
The last of three nights in Frederick's
low tent, in which I cannot even sit upright.
During the coming days with my family I'll finally buy my own
tent.
Next to me: the tent of Jay Key, who has always
helped me to mount that prison-tent.
When I came back to the group
after they had passed on from Mitzpe-Ramon,
I learnt,
that there , in "my" town,
Frederick again had not used her tent,
but slept under the bare sky:
her backpack was placed right next to her sleeping-bag,
and yet, someone dared to steal it - including her passport.
Only her money was with her on her body.
Some of us, I included, said :
"I would have probably left the Walk about Love".
But joyful, serene Frederick
got herself a new passport in Tel-Aviv
and rejoined the group...
I found this image of her,
taken on the first day of our walking,
in the
gallery of Mowgli on Facebook.
May his memory be blessed.
and my Frederick's cheerfulness radiate...
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Robin as usually wakes up the camp, - here the
water container and one car who takes equipment, are outstanding
Robin on two opposing backgrounds
while I am parting from those I had come to know
more deeply
While people get out of their tents and Dana braids
her hair, another German musician- with an accordeon - joins Robin.
It is still terribly cold
Today Robin also elates the morning cricle
Suddenly, two busses with religious pupils arrive.
Robin invites them in, as the people of the Walk about Love always
do, whenever we meet individuals or groups
While the morning circle had gathered - very slowly
and gradually as usual -
Thomas and Emanuel were ready for a relationship counseling.
Their own effort had started well, but "then
we lost ourselves in intellecualities",
they had both told me separately.
Within 10 minutes they were so much on the same wavelength,
that I heard myself saying: "Now I
can die",
and one of them exclaimed: "What expectations!"
And I - already turning away towards the circle - got scared:
"Yes, you are right! Beware of me!
Beware of me!"
When I came back after 6 days, Thomas had left the group altogether,
as planned,
and Emanuel had left it with some others after what some called
a "nightmare" during the group's stay at Mitzpe-Ramon.
At this moment I know nothing of what the near
future will bring:
I - together with Eran and Yoav - get a hike with one of the bus-drivers,
Yariv,
and wave to the walkers through the front window of the bus:
we {what did I
want to tell here?}
Bus-driver Yariv asks relevant and poignant
questions, like:
"Does it happen, that people quarrel?
Or that they form 'hamulot' (separatist groupings)?"
