InteGRATion into GRATeFULLness
Singing&Sounding keeps me Sound

Uti var håge

Except for four songs I've forgotten all my Swedish. I hope I can still translate this one correctly: Outside in the forest there grow blue berries, come you joy of my heart Do you want to encounter (?) me, so let's meet there, come , lillies and aquileia (?), come roses and sage come, you lovely krysminta (?) come you joy of my heart. Small little flowers there ask us to dance, come you joy of my heart If you want, I'll bind a garland (or wreath) for you.. come , lillies and aquileia (?), come roses and sage come, you lovely krysminta (?) come you joy of my heart. The wreath I'll put on your head. come you joy of my heart The sun will go down, but hope will go up. come , lillies and aquileia (?), come roses and sage come, you lovely krysminta (?) come you joy of my heart. Outside in the forest one finds flowers and berries, come you joy of my heart but from among all you are the most cherished to me. come , lillies and aquileia (?), come roses and sage come, you lovely krysminta (?) come you joy of my heart.

Aquilegia Vulgaris, a beautiful, rare flower, I know from Germany as Akelei

"Krysminta" - Krautminze is probably "Lavender"

to former song to next song

2010 - Mika's and My Heaven-on-Earth

Mika "gives treatment" - she says - to our "old" olive-tree on "Crane-Piazza"

Mika seems to remember Re'i Benjamin, Tamir's and Hilah's baby, from beyond ...

Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Mika called me in the morning:
"Come quickly, Savta, take a photo of Nella,
while she lies on the back like that!"

The evening before, when she played with Yuli in my room,
but didn't allow me to watch, leave alone to photograph them,
I had said;
"What a pity! You play so nicely together,
And I would like to remember this."
Suddenly she understand - from this sentence-
what the purpose of my paparazzo behavior was,
and at another occasion she said clearly:
"We want to remember this, right?"

After Abba had brought Mika to kindergarden, and Efrat had gone to work, Immanuel immersed in his computer-work.
At some hour, when I passed through the living-room into the kitchen, I asked: "May I know, what you are doing?"
There was a surprising answer: "Yes! And it's extremely interesting. I want to show you and tell you about it."
So I was granted an in-depth demonstration of his ingenious invention of how to improve the ongoing training of pilots.
We agreed, that in order to make a new invention acceptable to mainstream, 60-70% of the work is "COMMUNICATION".
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After kindergarden Mika and her friend Yuli had less than an hour,
before Efrat would dress them and bring them to a big birthday party.

the beauties are ready to attend a birthday of a mate. "we are a daffodil and an anemone". said Mika and corrected: "No, I'm an anemone and Yuli is a primrose!"

There favorite spot, outside on the veranda, and since it's still hot during the day, they can enjoy their intimacy even when it's dark.
3 hours later Immanuel will go off to his flight to New-York, till Friday, November 5.

The little girls came back with a gift, given to the participants of a child's birthday as usual In this case each one got six frogs, which had to be jumped into a pond. A bit later they came into my room and did all kinds of creative things, but I was not allowed "to look", leave alone photograph.

The next day , Nov. 3, 2010, after kindergarden Mika was with her best friend - Lia - - again on the adjacent playground. This time I had tied Nella on its far edge. Still, Lia so much longs for a dog [her mother: "I can't have it..."], that she stirred up Nella, other children gathered around and I was afraid. From now on I'll walk Nella, b e f o r e  I go to fetch Mika, though this means, that I'll forgo sweet scenes like this one.

So much noise! So much movement - with at least 15 kids and their parents on this small playground!
I gladly remember the verse from Zecharia - but still - it's taking much strength to be around all the fun!

Mika prepares "a card" for the bride of Avi, son of Shalom, Efrat's mother's brother.
While Imma folded laundry, and I repaired a towel, Mika worked on our chest-desk
and learnt how to write "nisu'im" [marriage] and "kalah" [bride].
Today, Nov. 4, 2010, fifty years of the beginning of Mika's grandparents' love,
I feel moved by this drawing.

And yet another "Playground Festival", on November 4, 2010, this time for almost 2 1/2 hours
Mika played with many children - by chance, the few photos are with the siblings Qeshet and Peleg

First Peleg let Mika sit behind him, then he even proposed: "Do you want me to teach you?" [Mika didn't tell him, that she, too, once had a bike, but it was stolen from inside their former house.] But soon he hurried away: "I've to see, what my dumb sister does with the tractor!"

At some time Mika finds herself another vehicle, lent to her by a girl named Tamar.           But time and again she returns to Qeshet's tractor, though the battery had run out.

Once or twice it occurred, that Mika couldn't find a friend to play with. Then she sat next to me on the low wall, ate apple pieces and was sad. But not for long, Attracted by the apple, Peleg came and made Mika glad again.