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InteGRATion into
GRATeFULLness
Singing&Sounding keeps me Sound
The red Flower
| 2007_01_11 latest update: 2010_05_28 addition on Febr. 12, 2009: "Rakaefet"  Under the rock grows A PRIMROSE |
lyrics:
Rafael Rosenzweig On January 23, 1963 I gave birth to our son in Germany, far from his father in Israel, whom I hadn't seen for almost a year. No phone-calls, no e-mails..., a letter to Israel took 5 days, and another 5 days back to Germany. "Could you make a song for our son?" The song came and I made my first tune! |
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Childrens' Songs
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+ Hebrew lyrics by Rafael
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Following 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, I am here adding another song about a spring flower, learnt recently by Mika. 2009_02_12 - I changed the last stanza. P R I M R O S E 
See also Mika's sowing of this flower's seeds in a hole at the foot of an olive-tree, on April 10, 2011 |
Towards Arnon's 13th birthday on June 12,
2009
Since Arnon was the only grandchild who succeeded in
communicating with his grandfather Rafael,
and since he likes this song especially,
I want to sculpt a few compositions here - in addition to Arnon's
page in the "Grandmotherhood-Library":
Acrobatics on grandma - Pentecoast
2002_05_17
| his baby -
2002_06_16 |
showing me
stamps - 2002_07_29 |
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Arnon and Ayelet: a weekend with grandma
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April 4, 2007, Eve of Pesach, which part
of the family celebrated at Shoham:
Grandma and Arnon (born June 1996) read and sing the Story of Pesach.
2009
On Dec. 4, 2009, during a stretch of days at Shoham,
while Immanuel was on flight to Los Angeles, Efrat and Mika traveled to Akko,
to be with Efrat's suffering very old grandmother at the house of her parents,
together with all three brothers.
I wanted to use the "free" weekend to see other family members and
that's how I came to spend Shabbat Eve at Mazkeret Batya.
Mother and son are interested in a specific TV cooking/baking
program
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this branch of my children do not care about "God" or tradition, they kept one habit from Ra'ayah's religious family in Kibbutz Sa'ad. (she is the eldest and the only one among the 8 children who "left" religion): Ayelet rushed down the blessing over the two lights - mechanically. Then they klicked glasses, which is definitely no Jewish Shabbat habit... I was fascinated by these old candle-holders [and the golden candles!]. Ra'ayah told: "They were found in the 'Nachlass' of my grandmother Yente. Obviously she had bought them during her first marriage, but when grandfather Yecheskel was killed by an Arab, she didn't want to use them any longer." How is it always like that in Israel: you ask about a simple item, and a drama is behind it... [see about those grandparents' holocaust story] The Shabbat meal cooked by both, Micha and Ra'ayah, was excellent, but what was truly special and exhilarating for me, was the talking. There had been a problem, which needed delicate treatment. I was informed beforehand, that there would be a chance for during the meal. I radiated my desire, that this would be successful and it was! I was happy and grate-full... This success was, perhaps, the reason, why another problem was handled later just as beautifully, this time due to my assistance and to Arnon's creative mind: |
The family is busy with the belated celebration of Arnon's Bar-Mitzva on
December 24, 2009.
One of the many things, that have to be arranged, is the sending out - per
e-mail - of the invitation.
After uncle Immanuel had been asked by Arnon's parents to edit a certain photo
of Arnon,
taken - like the one below - during the family's trip in Josemite Park in
the USA,
Arnon said, that he should have been asked, and that he didn't like the picture,
not even after its edition (more than an hour's work for Immanuel!).
When it seemed that Arnon - pressured anyway by the planned presentation of
the USA trip during the celebration -
didn't feel like creating that invitation at all,
the parents repeated their mistake: The asked Ayelet to create the invitation
without asking Arnon.
 Arnon's version of the invitation: I want the text to be integrated in the landscape |
 Ayelet's version of the invitation: I hate it, that part of the text is red |
On that day it turned out, that Arnon had worked on the invitation after all,
without Ayelet knowing about it.
Can you imagine , what happened now???
The parents apologized over and over again, but it didn't help.
I went upstairs to join Arnon, while the parents were
around their daughter in the livingroom.
After I had listened to his point-of-view and could understand, that he didn't
want to give up his work,
I said: "But you must come down, Arnon!
If not, it will interpreted, as if you didn't care!"
So Arnon sat on the sofa opposite his sister and after some minutes had an
idea:
"Ayelet! What if we would find you a compensation
for your invitation?"
He proposed her a certain task in the preparations of the celebration and
a huge packet of her favorite chocolate.
And hear and behold! She accepted!
But that was only the breakthrough.
Now they both ran up to the computer and began to integrate their two versions!
Not only I delighted in this cooperating and co-creating, everyone did!
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When I wanted to close the camera after these shots, there was an erronous click with a somewhat mystical perspective of that scene.
The little picture on the wall - by the way - shows the siblings, some 5 years ago, embracing each other at a lake in Scotland...
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And this is the result of the co-creation, which then
was sent away by e-mail to all the family (Ra'ayah has some 45 nephews and
nieces)
The next morning,
before Micha drove me to Modi'in to meet three other grandchildren there ,
on the Titorah - Hill,
I found the couple sitting at the table, while the children were still asleep.
Ra'ayah had written a letter to one of Ayelet's teachers and showed it to
Micha.
"That's a bit aggressive!"
he said
and she: "Well you are an expert in moderating
aggressive expressions!"
And that's what I see Micha doing here: "moderating",
- which has been a part of his job during all those years.
Now, that he has left that Hightech job at "Applied Material",
he may make more use of his talent, which he applied already at the age of
12-13:
"Imma! Couldn't you give in to what Abba
demands?"
he pleaded during a hike in the vicinity of the big Arab village Baqa al-Gharbiyye.
Finally I had learnt to stand up to my
husband,
and now my little son pleaded with me to be "peaceful"...
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Thinking again of the tapestry of all our five threads
on that Shabbat evening,
I know, that even the "mistakes" of the parents were beneficial,
for without them there would not have been the opportunity for such a wonderful
co-creation!
From my family at Mazkeret Batya, Micha drove me
to Modi'in,
where on - the Titorah Hill - I
met 3 of my daughter's children.