InteGRATion into GRATeFULLness
Singing&Sounding keeps me Sound

ONENESS

2007_04_25

lyrics: from the Holy Hadeeth + the poem of an ancient Sufi, Dou-i-Noun

tune: Christa-Rachel Bat-Adam May 2001

from Puzzle Pieces Guide or God has Evolved

to former song to next song

2010

"....Manifestation is meant to be a playground
where being and doing are fun..."
[Godchannel, Second Interview with the Folks]

I promised myself on April 26, 2010,
that my intense creation of photo-compositions of Mika's Heaven-on-Earth is completed.
Since today, May 1, 2010, I'm looking for criteria,
which will help me to choose only certain aspects of Mika's life and my life with Mika.
The criterion for the composition on this and the following page -
which documents my presence at Shoham from April 30 till May 4, 2010
is: outstanding experiences with Mika and her family.

Shabbat, May 1, 2010, Evening

Efrat has some business to do at Modi'in
and "on the way" wants to deliver the Digital Sun System,
which had been one of my gifts to Mika on her 4th birthday,
to Itamar, youngest son of my daughter, whose family lives at Modi'in
That "Digital Sun System" turned out to be such a miserable product,
that I was very disappointed and understood, that it didn't excite Mika.
Since Itamar has drawn the Sun System on paper already at age four,
and since he is about to teach second graders in his Democratic School,
I asked him, if he was interested to "inherit" that toy. "Yes, very much!"
(See the role he played on the family celebration of Mika's birthday)

I asked Efrat, if we could do something else "on the way":
visit Ya'acov's family, whom I brought to Modi'in in 2002,
but whose new flat (since 2005?) I've never seen.
"Also, I would like Mika to see my wheelchair friend in a normal environment,
with Ya'acov's wife and twin daughters [see them with Itamar's sister Rotem in Poland!]"
She agreed and we saw the flat and the family, but Mika wasn't very nice....
Perhaps she was keen on the ice-cream, which she would receive at the mall.

We had to wait until long after the exit of Shabbat for the mall to open.
When we came in, the vaulted, bombastic building was totally empty.
Still, I felt squeezed in - as always in such consumer-palaces.
I took a sequence of photos to show, what Mika and Efrat DO like...
I'm grateful, that it so rare, that I have to find myself in such places!

The palace is reflected in its grandeur in the window- front at its end.             The intended food-place is still not open, and Efrat wonders what to do, till she remembers another food-place.         Mika loves moving stairways ....

Sunday, May 2, 2010,
It is the day before that horrid festival Lag b'Omer,
there is no kindergarden, only the afternoon school works.
She claims not to like this, and I'm, therefore, permitted to take her out already at 14:15.
She leads me to the small play-ground just across the building of several kindergardens.
What was special, even outrageously special , was a performance she suddenly gave me,
after I had taken off her outer shirt and, according to her quest, tied it around her hips.

"Close your eyes! Now open them: See a bride!"

"Close your eyes! Now open them: See a prince!"

"Close your eyes! Now open them: See a cook"

"Close your eyes! Now open them: See a princess"

"Close your eyes! Now open them: See a ballerina"

"Close your eyes! Now open them: See a rabbit"

Another perspective of the ballerina scene!

I am still stunned,
that Mika improvised these characters,
one after the other,
just with a shirt and its tied sleeves!

Mika's own writing:
Ahavah Mika ve-Imma
Love Mika and Mother

One of uncountable compositions of butterflies, hearts and flowers

And another proof of her extraordinary sense for beauty:
She sees that heart below the computer screen
and puts a plastellina shape on it:
"Yin ve-Yang!", she reminds me.
And she presents two symmetrically ordered and ornamented cups
with all kinds of dry fruits from park trees and with plastic flowers.
"How come, that you always have these wonderful ideas?"
I praise her.
"Oh, I think and think and then I find the solution!"

Auroras on May 3, 2010

Montana, USA: "Nature gave us a subtle treat tonight. A red aurora just visible to the eye and easily visible to the camera"

Finland: "Best activity was over quickly, maybe in couple of minutes, but these were by far the best auroras I have seen since December 2006! What a nice feeling!"

Chippewa Falls, WI , USA: "Well Worth the Wait!! It's been 5 years since I last saw the Northern Lights in my neck of the woods. And what a show it was!"