The Purpose  of   HEALING - K.I.S.S. - as stated 12 years ago - was and is   to help me and my potential P E E R s  "to HEAL ourselves into WHOLEness, and - by extension - all of CREATion!"

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I focus my experiencing and awareness on being "a   pioneer of  Evolution  in  learning  to  feel": I let my Body vibrate and my Heart 'womb' pain, shame, fear, boredom, powerlessness, so feelings can >heal >guide>fulfill>evolve, and ~~~ offer ~~~"goldmines"~~~ to us all!! "I want you to feel everything, every little thing!"

2007_05_31

lyrics: Miriam Yalan-Shteklis
tune: Max Lempel

generations of children
in new Israel
have been raised
on this song

From my biblical sculpture
"Cain&Hevel"

(I prefer
to not sing the first stanza)

Imma said to me: Dani!
My child is a hero and sensible
my child will never cry
like a little fool.

I never ever cry,
I'm not a crier baby,
but why, mum, do the tears
flow by themselves?

An apple I gave to Nurit,
big and pretty and round,
a flower I gave to Nurit,
I gave everything.

Nurit ate the apple,
the flower she threw away,
and she went to play
with another child.

I never ever cry,
I'm not a crier baby,
but why, mum, do the tears
flow by themselves?

 

This is the version, which I learnt -
with some incorrect lines,
since there wasn't yet the Internet to check...
I used to sing to my children
and later to my grandchildren,
without the first stanza.

Miriam Yalan-Shteklis was born in Kremenchug in 1900. She was the daughter of Yehuda Leib Nissan Vilensky, a Zionist leader descended from a long line of rabbis, and learned Hebrew as a child. After the failed Russian Revolution of 1905, the family moved from place to place: Berlin, Minsk, Petrograd, and finally Kharkov. Yalan-Shteklis studied at the University of Kharkov and then the College of Judaic Studies in Berlin. In 1920, she immigrated to Palestine and settled in the Rehavia neighborhood in Jerusalem. In 1928, she went to Paris to study library science. From 1929, she joined the staff of the Jewish National University Library at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She headed the Slavic department for thirty years. Yalan-Shteklis won the Israel Prize in 1956 for her outstanding contribution to Israeli children's literature. She died in Jerusalem at the age of 84.

Miriam Yalan-Shteklis used to say that "poems emanate from the suffering soul and like children, they are born in suffering." Orphaned at an early age, her whole life was permeated by sorrow and solitude. She had no children of her own, but spent her days writing poetry for the children of others. Her work is suffused with a deep understanding of the worries, fears and experiences of young children.