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InteGRATion into
GRATeFULLness
Close-ups of my Past
2007_07_18: Closeup of 2006_07_18 ~~~~Update in another war: January 10, 2009
[see also Closeup of August 2006-WAR and there: more links to the wars of Israel&Ismael]
War - My Life - My People
"The Angels of Peace weep bitterly"
[Isaiah 33;7]
Letter from and to Dina Straatievski, a woman soldier,
and one of the five "Star-Children"
who grew up in Arad
and who adopted me, the Old-Timer...when I settled here
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As to photos of Dina, to whom my letter is addressed, January 10, 2009: No sooner had I added this note about Dina, when I happened to see her (see below) |
 Tzippi, also my neighbor in the same street, and my sun-flowers |
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Tzippi and Maya walk from my house to the bus-station , through my "Wadi-of-Compassion", Tzippi to get her final "liberation" from the army, Maya to return to her army-situation, which totally depresses her. She, too, will eventually become free, - some months later. |
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  Little Maya, 1995, - on a group walk in the Desert, she was angered by something or somebody, I let everybody else wait and supported her while she expessed her feelings: |
Dina and
the Star-Children 2005 -
they plant an apple-tree in my new garden with its infertile desert-soil.
I had taught them the story about Martin Luther:
"What would you do, if you knew, that the world will go to pieces tomorrow?"
Answer: "I would plant an apple-tree today".
But that was in Europe, while in the desert of Israel only my pomegrenade
tree grows...
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 In spring 2005 , Dina had organized the other star-children [here with Tzippi, on the above picture also with Gal Mor and Meshi Taib] to help me make a path of half an hour down to the Bedouin Family, whom I believed and still believe to become the pioneers of the realization of my Desert-Vision. Dine goes hand in hand with Hathra, my angel, then 12 years old, another Indigo-Child. |
Dina is still in the army,
she watches the border between Jordan and Israel between the Dead and the
Red Sea.
Tzippi finishes first
year of "National Service", Gal even refused this alternative to
the army,
and Meshi , after a year of voluntary Service, has to decide now where she
will cope with being a soldier.
July 30, 2006, Diary about the War
A painting of my son Micha at the age of 6,
"Moses in the ark",
in his last kindergarden year and just before the 1973 War:
rediscovered today, July 30, 2006,
a symbol for all the children killed then and again.
In another war: Shabbat, January 10, 2009, Arad
Suddenly
I met Dina, and not only her but her mother and father too. Tzippi brought me there. The interaction , which began with this sad photo of Dina in her room, became too intense ... She wanted to leave and I dragged along with her and Tzippi, but not for long. There is absolute honesty between starchildren! So she parted from us in sadness and peace, and walked not knowing to where. Two hours later she wrote me a letter, at the same time as I was writing a letter to her.... 
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Towards that evening on January
10, 2009 |
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to
former accidental closeup of my Past
to
next accidental closeup of my Past
January 2010
Driving Backward to December 1978: Handwritten Diary
 
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December 1978
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August 9, 2012 -
Tzippi's wonderful project and her appreciation for "80
year old Rachel"...
I'll insert only the beginning of it, just in order
to remember
2013
| August 7, 2013: Tzippi on Facebook 
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