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InteGRATion into
GRATeFULLness
Singing&Sounding keeps me Sound
I Am a Barefoot Shoemaker
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is a Hebrew proverb: "The shoemaker goes bare-foot" lyrics and tune: Christa-Rachel Bat-Adam June 1984 |
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2010
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2010_04_11
- Mika's Heaven on Earth Since August 1, 2009, I employ song-page after song-page for documenting and exploring the evolution of Mika my youngest grandchild, whose assignment seems to be: to demonstrate to humankind by her own living and doing, how to playfully create from moment to moment "zest-fully and full-filled" [see previous composition] |
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"....Manifestation is meant to be
a playground
where being and doing are fun..."
[Godchannel,
Second Interview with the Folks]
At this time I'm going to create a much more comprehensive
composition than usual:
Not only a sculpture made up of Mika's personal, individual being ~~ playing
~~ living
but a composition of the major experiences of her family on this planet at
this time.
This will include scenes in the recent past, from Immanuel's album [since
2010_01_01]
and relevant daily e-mail quotes from Abraham
since the completion of my daily sculptures
of (1) " M y D e s i r
e T o d a y " from September
19 till December
10, 2010
of (2) "Celebrating what is right with the World" ,
from Jan.
10 till Febr.
18, 2010
and of (3) "How I've been learning to Live", from February
19 till March
13, 2010
Daily e-mail quote from "Abraham" (1998) on March 22, 2010 If there is something that you have to do, resist the temptation to do it under duress. Ask yourself, "What's the worst thing that would happen if I didn't do this?" And if you can get away with not doing it at all, don't do it. And then imagine what would it feel like to have this done. Spend a day or two, if you can, just 15 minutes here, 5 minutes here, 2 minutes here, here and here, imagining it completed in a way that pleases you! And then, the next time you decide that you're going to take action about it, the action is going to be a whole lot easier. |
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Mika's
fourth birthday, first celebrated amongst MY family, then celebrated in her kindergarden, was celebrated a third time on January 1, 2010, amongst her mother's family at Acco. What a"lucky" girl!. Or more exact: how did she know to stage her young life so wondrously? With Mirjam, her grandmother, and with "Meme", her greatgrandmother With Victor, her grandfather. With her uncle Dani, one of Efrat's 3 brothers, and his daughter Shakhaf and with Na'ama, the daughter of Efrat's brother Shim'on |
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Daily e-mail quote from "Abraham" (1999) on March 25, 2010 Milk every moment for all the pleasure you can get from it. When you say, "It is my dominant intent to look for things that feel good today. No matter where I'm going, no matter what I'm doing, no matter who I'm doing it with, it is my dominant intent to look for what I'm wanting to see, to look for things that feel good," and the more you develop the habit of that kind of vibration -- the more the Universe understands that that's who you are! And so, the more you have access only to those kinds of things |
On Shabbat, April 10, 2010,
12 days after I had last seen my
family with Mika (on Passover Night),
I was all alone, as I love to be (unlike
last weekend when Lior Oren was
with me,
and we explored the
cave, which Rotem and I had discerned from far above, while that goat-kid
was delivered to the world).
Though I felt enriched by what ever I did in my room (in addition to swirling
in the morning-pool),
I suddenly had the desire to go out alone into the desert!!!
This was once a daily routine, but it has become exceptional,
since, when I am in Arad (and not with my family at Shoham) I walk to the
pool every day twice,
i.e. twice to and fro through the desert of my "Wadi
of Compassion".
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My
destination was a cave in the desert north of Arad (not the "Lior-Cave" which is in the east of Arad, on the descent to the Dead Sea) about one hour walk, but - how wise have I become - already after 7 minutes walk from my house to the northern outskirts of my neighborhood "Shaqed" (almond) I felt exhausted by the awful Khamsin - heat and wind and dryness - and when I reached the niche in the rocks, where I used to sit often during my first year in Arad (2005), I said to myself: "Why should I follow through with my plan? Why not enjoy all I yearn for in the Desert right here?" Verily a breakthrough! I had brought with me the two books in which I'm immersing myself mainly on Shabbat, Rilke's "Malte" and Jean Giono's "May my Joy remain" (see why I'm so happy to let myself be inspired by these two men) and read in them alternately, and in between I watched "my" Desert, all the forms and colors, though on this day contrast was being added only later in the afternoon towards sunset. When I felt uncomfortable on one rock, I changed to another rock seat, and , of course, as always in the desert, at a distance of only 5 meters I already had a completely different perspective: this time to the east towards the Dead Sea. I was so content, so full-filled, that I made some photos of myself, simply stretching out my arm with the camera in one hand: |
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Daily e-mail quote from "Abraham" (1999) on March 31, 2010 Children coming forth today have a greater capacity to deal with the greater variety of information that is coming forward than you did. They deliberately are coming forth into this environment where there is more to contemplate. This generation gap that you are talking about, it has ever been thus. Each new generation, every new individual, that comes forth, is coming with you having prepared a different platform for them to proceed from. There is this thing that gets in the way of that that says, "I'm the parent. I got here first. I know more than you do." From the children's perspective, and from the purity of their Nonphysical Perspective, what they are saying is, "You're the parent. You got here first. You prepared a platform that I am leaping off from -- and my leap will be beyond anything that you have ever known." |
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A jump
back from April 3 to January 24, 2010: Father and daughter cook together and to January 25, 2010, when my son celebrated his 47th birthday with Efrat, his second wife, and all his four children, Elah Alon Tomer Mika [Efrat had invited me, too, but I much preferred to let this family be together without me!] |
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Just at the beginning of this month, 2 days after our celebration
of the Passover Night,
Immanuel and Tomer flew to a far away country, Brazil, with an exceptional
program.
Since I was supposed to join them for the jungle , I am taking their journey
virtually!
 The journey, strongly suggested to me by Efrat, my daughter-in-love, was to take place from April 1 to April 6, 2010, and this was the program: to fly with El-Al and my pilot-son and Tomer to Brazil, Sao Paulo: 15 hours, to continue as paying tourists with a plane to Manaus in the north: 4 hours and to continue traveling in a minibus: 1 1/2 hours, and on a boat: 1/2 hour and to be a guest at Amazon Village, Jungle Lodge, Manaus, Brazil I would have to consider 24 hours of traveling + jet-lag in order to enjoy 3-4 days in the jungle and in Sao Paulo. "In addition" - all this was supposed to cost me 2000 Dollar, which Micha, my younger son, would have needed to lend me. In hindsight I know, that this absolutely crazy idea had the aim to u n- settle me and prepare me for another journey abroad... I'm so grateful that Micha talked me out of that craziness (for me even the 3 hours travel Arad-Shoham are difficult!) and instead offered me a journey to a "reasonable" place! AMAZON VILLAGE JUNGLE LODGE The Amazon Village is located 30km from Manaus, on the banks of Puraquequara Lake, upstream Puraquequara River. Because of the acid water pH, mosquitoes and viruses that cause dengue, cholera, yellow fever, etc. do not proliferate in the area. The transfer from Manaus to the Amazon Village or vice-versa takes about 3 hrs divided in the following parts: PART 1: MANAUS/CEASA PORT - by van, microbus or bus (Duration: around ½ hr) PART 2: CEASA PORT/AMAZON VILLAGE - by regional boat, via the Meeting of the Waters phenomenon (Duration: around 2 1/2 hrs)
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Israeli passport was, indeed, no longer valid! |
Immanuel flew to Brazil, Sao Paulo, as a pilot of Israel's
El-Al so that his son had to pay only some 80 $
But from Sao Paulo to Manaos in the north they were passengers who had to
pay the full price, 400 $ each.
Immanuel has this certain look, of how and what to photograph from the air:
their hosting place in the jungle.
 Immanuel and Tomer in Manaos, the town with an airport closest to the village. In his back I see a sculpture, perhaps about the 5 continents: "Asia" and "Africa" From the airport- a drive of a 1 1/2 hours - and from there a boat on the Amazonas will bring them to their destination: Amazon Village, Jungle Lodge ( 2 1/2 hours) |
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Continuation of Mika's
"Heaven-on-Earth" , in March 2010, on the Song page of March
18 , 2007 |