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See below: 2010_12_23 old slides about my bus-life between 1986 and 1989,
interspersed with 2 docs about my Partnership involvement in 1975 and 1977

InteGRATion into GRATeFULLness
Close-ups of my Past

2007_04_28: Closeup of 1972_06_09

Eliyah

Lately I discovered two documents about Eliyah, my beloved prophet,

the first:
a composition of August 1986 - an engraving together with a poem.
Neither the artist nor the poet are named on that page in my 1986 "Hologram",
the other:
a short lesson, which I gave on a Shabbat Evening, 1972-06_09, at out dinner table.

Eliyah, get up! [my translation] "How he lies there , God's prophet, thrown to the ground, poured-out, empty. The man who was full of zeal and ideas: He is finished. Take my life from me, I, too, am not better than all my fathers. I can't go on. I don' want to go on, The lowest point of his life becomes the mountain peak. Eliayah, get up! His contorted shoulder is touched: Get up and eat! How gentle God is. Like a lover the messenger bends over the tired one. Thus he can rest in the shadow of his wings. Tender is this finger, quiet the touch. The other hand reminds of God's oath: I won't desert the tired one A blanket bestowing shade, Wrapping lovingly Life-giving closeness And all this only as the lowest edge, as the outflow of a magnificent appearence. How powerful God's fire is, how magnificent his flaring up, how enrapturing this streaming, but God's power does not smash Eliyah it keeps distance, gives space and pulls above. A small point of touch is enough. Energy is transferred Eliyah will get up and wander and experience God...

du des Wegs..." In diesem Spiel mit dem hebraeischen Wort "raw" ist der Zusammenstoss zwischen subjektivem Scheitern und objektivr Aufgabe symbolisiert. Genug noch hast du des Wegs, doch nicht mit Gewalt geh voran, sondern mit Sanftmut. 1. Koenige 19

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2010_12_24, continued

old slides about my bus-life between 1986 and 1989,which I've scanned now,
interspersed with 2 related documents about my Partnership involvement in 1975 & 1977

Elah then was almost 2 years old

The frame of the slide says: "The first moments at Ga'ash in February 1989",
meaning: when the worst of winter was behind us,
we moved our mobile homes from a public parking lot at the southern edge of the town of Herzliya
to a rock above the Sea, north of Kibbutz Ga'ash.

The perspective should be the other way round:
the turning seat - for driving, when driving, and sitting at my desk above the water-tank, when parking, should be left of the organ

Ga'ash: I'm trying to catch mosquitos and flies, which were the greatest plague during all my bus-years, despite the curtains along my windows.

"Partnership Diary", 1977, 135b-136a See about Nuri Al-Ojbi and Beduin Self-Determination 2003-04

"Liberty through Responsibility", 1975, page 36

During that last winter - 1988-89 - I parked the bus near "civilization", the southern-most houses of Herzliya.
The slide shows the "destination" of the bus in mirror-script: "A Thousand of Pathes", in Hebrew and Arabic.
[the name of the "destination" followed a song, which I created in 1984 for a marrying pupil from the town Netivot!]
The path would lead to "Succah in the Desert" , on the Jewish New Year , in September 1989

When the winter-winds subsided, we moved bus and minibus to a rock above the Mediterranean north of Kibbutz Ga'ash. This was a great celebration of Pesach: outside on the sand above the Sea, with Immanuel, Ruth and Elah, and with two women and their 6 children   I've not mentioned, that since February 1988 I was joined by Channah in her minibus. The relationship of 1000 days is still too pain-and shame-full to be remembered

Already at that time Levi taught dancing, in this case my daughter, my son and my daughter-in-law -on the sand outside the bus at night

"Partnership Diary", 1977, 136b continuation

"Liberty through Responsibility", 1975, page 37b-38a

continuation of the sequence of old slides about my bus-life between 1986-1989,
interspersed with 2 related docs about my Partnership involvement in 1975 & 1977