InteGRATion into GRATeFULLness
Singing&Sounding keeps me Sound

Katjusha's Love

2007_06_17

lyrics & tune: Russian folksong which I learnt from Ruth, Heidelberg University, when , in 1962, I prepared for singing love songs in 6 or 7 languages at my sister's engagement celebration Once a poetic Hebrew translation was sung in Israel, but when I now searched for it on the Internet, I, of course, found only references to a very sad issue called: Katjushas... 2007_09_29- See below, what new info I learnt about this song

In 1962 I still remembered some Russian. In 1959 I had studied it so intensely, that I could even write a postcard in Russian to my fiance, Martin Fincke, who was the reason for learning this language. But Hebrew and later Arabic made me forget Russian.

2007_09_29
I now learnt, that the song is a war-song....

to former song to next song

Mika and her friends: "I want to know all the children of the world" Here she prevents Keshet (rainbow) to run towards the road with its cars. Mika and the World: Here she follows the TV reality series: A star is born The last event was too late for her to stay up. When - first thing in the morning - she asked me: "Who became the Star? " and I told her: "Diana!" she said: "I'm glad! I wanted her to win! But Ohad (one of the 3 finalists) --- he didn't feel hurt, did he?" Previous Composition 2010_09_06 Heaven-on-Earth "...Manifestation is meant to be a playground where being and playing are fun" [Godchannel]

continuation of the renewed togetherness between father and daughter , on Sept. 6, 2010

What an idea - to let the house between the cypresses blow out spirals into all directions!

Then Abba brings Mika to kindergarden. For this they have to use the elevator. Will Mika feel more secure, when Abba is with her? I had only a second to grasp the answer... When he comes back, he takes me to the place from where I hitchhike. I had just left his car, and he had already driven some 15 meters, when I realized, that I had forgotten my mobile drive, for the very first time In perhaps 2 years, ever since he bought me this device, which allows me to take with me, whatever is on my computer at Shoham and on my computer at Arad. So we had to drive back to Shoham - through heavy traffic, and once more to the Ben-Shemen junction. Thus I became a witness to a phone-talk between him and Offer Yardeni, another pilot, but who had been my son's friend from the beginning of their service in the air-force in 1981. I hadn't seen him for 20 years at least. They figured out, how Efrat and Mika could fly with Offer already on this evening, since it wasn't sure, that there would be a place for them on Immanuel's flight the next day.

1983 Some 350 final candidates began the course in the Air-Force. After 2 years Immanuel was among the 20 who finished the course. To my great relief, not as a "fighter-pilot", but as a pilot for transport and intelligence. He still does reserve-service in this. For some years, he also worked as an instructor on such planes.

Mika in Bangkok
while I was doing work "on the inside".
Learn&Live 2005 > September 2010

During Rosh Hashanah my two sons, Mika's father Immanuel and Mika's uncle Micha, were not in Israel but in the Far East.
By chance, Micha - on a business tour of 2 weeks - arrived in Hongkong, while his pilot brother waited for his flight back.
That's how they could meet and - despite the strong rain - hike together in the mountains. I don't know why the images are so bad.

Only a few days later, Immanuel again flew to the Far East, this time to Thailand, to Bangkok,
and this time with his two girls, his wife and his daughter

On the day, on which Mika and Efrat would fly to Bangkok,
Mika suddenly called me by phone! It was her own initiative!
She told me, what on her bed in the hotel would expect her,
and many other details.
After she had come back, she also called me,
this time initiated by her father.
She told me about experiences in the Safari,
the "dangerous" things, she had done there,
"I fed all kinds of frightening animals!"
and then she went into great detail,
how she watched the hatching of a chicken
on the first day... on the second day ... on the third day...
when I became a little impatient after she had listed the ninth day and interrupted her ,
she said: "but there is still another day!" meaning: let me tell the process till the end!
Later I understood, that she had mixed up two experiences:
the actual hatching of a chick, which took about 20 minutes, as her father told me,
and a virtual demonstration of all stages of the growth from an egg to a chick.

In a bath-tube Thailand: Mika loves hotels....

Mika loves strolling through the market of Bangkok

In a shop they buy the long-desired material for "costume-playing": bridal veils,
instead of the white worn-out veil, often repaired and still torn (see one of the next pages)

Under Water World

Tiny fish massage Mika's and Immanuel's feet