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InteGRATion into GRATeFULLness
Fine-tuning to my Presence

2007_09_19

Mika's FULL-FILL-ments (3)
[see Overview of Mika pages until October 13]

Watching and interacting with Mika, my little granddaughter (21 months old),
who still knows, how to create Heaven-on-Earth in each moment of her life.

See also - below - Mika's photo-documentation of her home in June 2011

The next day, after kindergarden, I took Mika in her stroller and searched for a place in nature, which would "compensate" for the difficult experience in the "Commercial Center the day before". We discovered a little, lonely garden above the roofs of this neighborhood, in which part of the "Seven species" were planted with a sign on each -to teach people. especially trees of olives and pomegranates. I was still 5 days away from acquiring a cellphone+camera, but on August 9, when the two of us went again to the garden, I captured a little scene with Mika, of which I created my first Mika sculpture in FULL-FILLing Fountainhead. In order to illustrate the Hebrew story of Mika's FULL-FILL-ments on August 2, I shall create a composition of the photos taken on August 8, when Arnon and Ayelet came to Shoham, to be with Mika, their cousin, and with their common grandma. The hour with the three was, again, a manifestation of Heaven-on-Earth: loving togetherness, even cooperation, creativity and nature. Some of the photos appear already on the Song page for Ayelet's birthday.

Three activities, which are typical for Mika: to stand or sit in the smallest of vessels; to pick up the tiniest of stones, berries etc. and put them in some box; to try to close some sophisticated lock.

Mika, with her Grandma's genes, fit for creating in the desert... can lift the heaviest of stones...

The "Garden of the 7 Species" is built around an archeological site, an old wine-press.
So it was only natural, that the three started to crush
- not grapes, because the young vines had not yet produced such -
but olives and pomegranates.
Watching them dedicated to this "work" was so fascinating,
that my effort to delete part of the too many photos did succeed only partly...

Mika has all the time a bottle in her mouth, also because it compensates for the "tzaetzi" (pacifier, "dummy") which she is allowed to have only at night. But when she gets a bottle of grownups, she drinks and drinks.... and , of course, spills with great pleasure

All three bring materials for making salad of crushed olives and pomegranates

A pity, that the salad is not eatable after all.
But we certainly walk home "FULL-FILLed

to former sculpture of my Present     to next sculpture of my Present

June 3, 2011 - Mika's photos - p.3
"I'm documenting everything in our flat, so that you, Grandma, will remember!"
[see context:]

Grandma:
I did not change Mika's perspective , i.e. I did not crop out, what I, in my case, would have emphasized.
I only down-sized the originals and automatically adjusted the colors with the help of my software "Firework",
nor did I change the order of Mika's choice - - - or delete less attractive photos.

Mika's photo-documentation of her home, Continued

See my own photo of "Noah's Ark", together with Mika's explanation

She seems to feels that a wider perspective is needed, so she recedes a bit and presents Noah's Ark on the piano

Now she jumps into my/her room, for three shots, first: mirror, vent and computer,

second: the corner between cupboard and computer desk, where I use to place my backpack, and which is now beautified by a special cushion, lately bequeathed to Mika by Ra'ayah, her uncle Micha's wife.

third: her messy desk next to my bed which at this moment is also a mess, after Mika and I had "played" on it.

situated between Tomer's and "my" room is another bathroom, used by him and by me, if we are there

The sink with my "Silonit" spiral, for flushing my mouth with its few teeth with water after the removal of the upper and lower prostheses

Mika is not supposed to use this bathroom. For here there is another one , opposite, on the same floor, but when she does use it, she is afraid, that someone may come in. She solves this problem by pulling out the drawers underneath the sink with her box of hair-utensils, thus blocking the door from being opened...

Continuation of Mika's photo-documentation of her home on "Mika's FULL-FILL-ments with Abba-c"