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!"

 

 

 

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InteGRATion into GRATeFULLness
Singing&Sounding keeps me Sound

di welt nemt mech arum

2007_06_27

di welt nemt meich arum

yiddish lyrics and tune
unknown to me.
nor do I remember,
where or from whom I learnt it more than 45 years ago,
when I, the German-Born,
I, the Christian-Born,
had to cope with the Jewish Suffering day by day night by night

 

 


The world throws me around with thorny hands,

it drags me to water, it drags me to fire,

I burn and I burn and I am not burnt,

I lift myself up again and go on a bit further.


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?"
2010_09_28-29
Heaven-on-Earth

"...Manifestation is meant to be a playground
where being and playing are fun" [Godchannel]

 

 

 

Third continuation of "a full documentation" of an entire day with Mika, Sept. 28, 2010
These pictures I shot with my right hand, while my left arm I held Mika, sad and glad.
This may be a symbol for the story with the torn chain,
the chain with the symbol of "Right Use of Will", which here stars for the last half hour.

On the very first page of the sequence "Mika's Heaven on Earth", begun on Aug.1, 2009,
a double self-portrait shows me with the completed "trinity" of the three heart chains around my neck.
The mystical story about the middle chain, and how an unknown young woman hang it around my neck,
is told on the Song Page with the little Suebian song about "I've a heart like a bird", sung in Israel 1960.
A link from there to "Celebrations of what is right with the World" leads to this sculpture on Febr. 4, 2010


How did the symbol of 'Right Use of Will' come to ornament my neck?
A week after the beginning of "The Walk about Love 2009"- at Shittin,
I came to sit next to a girl, who did not take part in the Walk: Tamah !
She connected me to the one from whom her teacher, Dvora Bar-Ilan,
had once-1987- learnt about Right Use of Will, which changed her life.
"While in India ~I asked a silversmith to create the symbol of RUOW!
But now I feel, you, Christa-Rachel Bat-Adam should have it!"
Tamah [=the whole one] took the chain off her neck and hang it around mine.

[Tamah and the chain surfaced also in Sept. 2009, and in Febr. 2010 ]

When Mika was finally ready to return to "swimming",
i.e. clinging to my body and making fun incessantly,
she only agreed to enter the roofed pool
with its 5 or 6 constricting tracks for swimmers.
Still we managed to always "slip through the cracks"
[s. the expression in my most favorite Godchannel file!]
without bothering the real "swimmers",
but it was there and then,
that Mika inadvertently tore the chain of the heart-star.
Thanks God, this was at the low-water end of a tracks,
where we could retrieve chain and star from the floor.
"I'm so sorry, so sorry, forgive me, forgive me, Savta!"
exclaimed Mika in utter shock.
I showed her, that I was not angry at her,
only sad because of the chain.
When I mentioned the chain again sometime later, she said:
"This shows that you still have not forgiven me1"
"But Mika, there is nothing I have to forgive you!
It's only that I have to understand,
why "God" let this happen to me.
Nothing happens by accident, Mika!"

Now, on Oct. 7, 2010, nine days later, I think, I know the meaning:
After I succeeded to bring star and chain safely to Arad,
I let go of the idea to find a silversmith to repair the chain.
It wasn't about repairing anything,
it was and is about uniting the two remaining symbols
(since the third chain got "lost" altogether on my way back from Ireland)
uniting them on one chain, the shortest chain, closest to my head,
the one with mother and child holding each other in heart form,
sent to me by Mika's mother in November 2002
when I became a foster grandmother for Tomer.


Maybe "uniting" or "merging" are not the exact words.
The one heart of mother and son and the two hearts of the star
now jangle with and against each other, together, yet different!

 

 

 

Back home,
still on Sept. 28, 2010


Now Mika plays
the game of
the waitress,
or better:
the hostess.

She asks me,
her customer,
what kind of
dessert I want,
for instance,
and then
she "prepares" it
carefully,
"as if" with
real ingredients





 

 

 


I am invited
to "drink"
and "eat"


Soon it's time to go to "the Succot-Festival", which is happening tonight at Hevel-Park.
Efrat doesn't feel like going there (not to talk about  my aversion against such events),
but it was her, who had informed Mika and promised that we would take her there.
And there was a surprise: I met Mirik Snir in person!

What was interesting for me, was to see this park for the first time since August 2008.
How many experiences did I have at Hevel-Park with little Mika!

We came across a fancy "Ecological Succah".
and we met Amit, whom Mika had visited recently.
How strange, that they put her in a stroller.
She' s only about half a year younger than Mika.
What a coincidence!
There was a show based on the books of Mirik Snir!!
"Mika has many of her books!" Efrat told me, but I myself had never heard of Mirik,
a mother of 9 children, a grandmother of 15 grandchildren, teacher, author, poet.
On August 27, 2010, I opened Dov Elboim's TV show (Channel 1) : "Receiving Shabbat",
to which he always invites a person, who loves the Bible, but rarely is a professional.

The show can be seen either before Shabbat, 19:00, or after Shabbat 20:30.
So far I always forgot the first opportunity, but on this day I did open at 19:00.
Therefore, when I was so delighted about this woman and especially her poem,
I had the chance to listen again after Shabbat and to record the fantastic poem.

And now, there at Park Hevel in Shoham, I met her face to face behind the scenes!


If our fathers had told about a people that was brave and wise and righteous and perfect...... that never erred and never lost its way
in the desert,
we wouldn't learn
a thing.
About an English book by Mirik Snir: "When I first held you",
A charming rhymed story, told by a mother to her son or daughter,
illustrated vibrantly and colorfully by Mirik Snir's daughter, Eleyor Snir.
Wonderfully suits as a gift for the birth of a child or birthdays
About Mirik:
Mirik Snir was born in 1948, during the Israeli War of Independence.
She was raised and educated in Kibbutz Kfar Giladi, as one of twelve siblings.
She married Israel Snir from Kibbutz Neve-Eitan, where they lived for 20 years.
Mirik is a mother of nine children, a grandmother of fifteen grandchildren,
Author, Poet, and elementary school and special education teacher.
she has published more than 80 books
and translated Yiddish stories-poems of Kadia Molodovsky. ...
additional children's literature from across the globe,
including translations of Palestinian children's books.
Four of Mirik Snir's books have been translated to Arabic
and she has an ongoing relationship with educators in the Arab sector.
Mirik ...brings children closer to biblical stories and the language of the bible. .
Mirik's books enable children to attempt independent reading at a very young age.
They are highly suitable for people learning Hebrew
as a second language in Israel and abroad.

Mirik regards it as her mission
to voice children's issues to parents and educators.
..., love of the written word,... is not an end in itself
but the glorious route to loving all of humanity.
She believes with all her heart
that language builds a relationship
whose crowning point is love.
The opposite of a relationship through language is silence - uncommunicativeness from which stems violence.
Deficient and poor communication in childhood
is liable to take a violent expression later on
where as a rich language with a trust-building childhood strengthens love in the world.

Mirik Snir strongly believes in cultivating cooperation between the writer and the illustrator
. Four of her children and one grandchild have taken part in illustrating her books.
Nohar Snir, one of her sons, who is disabled from a head injury as a result of a car accident, is a promising poet,
and has published two books.


After we left the show with Mirik Snir, Mika met Yuli with whom I had that lovely encounter the day before
And see a video with an interview in Arabic, with Hebrew subtitles,
in which she states her mission .
She also sings in the Nazareth Orchestra

We knew, that around 8 o'clock the show with Hiba would start!
The Arab Hiba Batkhish was one of the 26 contestants
of "A Star is Born" [from among 5000 candidates].
To my regret, when Mika had the chance
to watch the program on TV for the first time,
and from then on got totally hooked on it,
Hiba had already been dismissed
[but stayed famous, as this occasion shows!].

This meant,
that she couldn't connect to the singer on the stage,
and her extreme tiredness took over...

Mika rubs her eyes
and disappears under her hair.

As bad as these pictures are,
as bad I felt
and obviously not only I ,
since I heard Efrat mumbling:
"This, too, is behind us now!"

We drove home!
I was sure, that this time Mika, awake since 7:30 AM,
would sink into bed.
But no!
She remembered,
that it was the evening
with the TV program
"One against one hundred"...



At the end of this very long day,
Sept. 28, 2010, 6th day of Succot,
a day documented step by step,
I carried Mika up the stairs,
with her parody of the song,
which I recently translated for her,
about the Biba-Butzi-Mann

 

When Elah, her sister, now 23, was Mika's age,
she , too, loved to be carried around with this song,
though I sang it only in the original German, then.
While I ascended the stairs, the edited formats of the 3 photos, taken by Efrat as requested by me, create a slight descent.
This kind of balance between up and down symbolizes the relationship between grandmother and granddaughter.
Yet the end of this full and fully documented day ended with a miraculous High, as described in the Hebrew text:
"Come back once more!" Mika called from her bed, when I had reached the door of her and her parents bedroom.
"What for?"            "In order to hug! But without kissing!"
So she had learnt something important from our talk:
She could refuse kissing, without being "a bad girl",
and she could differentiate between hugs and kisses.
When we hugged, she warned me again:
"But without kisses!"
I understand her so well. Perhaps for the opposite reason:
My mother never kissed us and there was nobody else to ever kiss us.
Even when she seemed to have doubts about her behavior
and asked us to kiss her on the cheek,
when she was awake before we left for school,
she never kissed us back.
All this "oriental" kissing , twice or even thrice, on the cheeks
- I find it hard to bear, even if I only have to look at it in the news on TV.
And to watch kisses on the mouth, even between lovers, I find unbearable.
Kissing between lips should be intimate like connecting between bodies....

Little did I know, why this is the last composition of that fully documented day,
- a week later Mika fell from these steps....

 

 

 


At Acco, on the Eve of Simchat Torah, September 29, 2010
With Mika's "other grandmother", Miryam, and Mika's only living grandfather, Victor


As we leave the flat and the house at Shoham,
Efrat's beauty amazes me!

Nella, Abba, Mika, before the house at Acco, in which except for Efrat's parents,
in time all Jewish inhabitants were exchanged by Arab families....

Did Mika again play the "good girl"? By not refusing to be kissed and hugged?
I tried to compensate for her body postures by explaining to her grandfather,
that Mika had initiated to draw this picture and to call it: "Saba!" Grandpa!

After almost an hour , which made not only the housewife and cook impatient and angry,
the other family arrived, Efrats youngest brother Shim'on with wife and their two children.


Immanuel between Victor, his wife's father, and Marco, Efrat's unmarried brother, who has a tourist business in Morocco
I told Mika's grandfather, that some hours before, while we were still at Shoham,
Mika had taken a book from the shelf and opened it , as if it were a prayer-book,
and that over the open book she had said excellent blessings her own free style.
Mika wasn't ready to do the same in front of everyone  with the real prayer-book,
but Saba Victor found a way to make her participate in his blessing over "wine".

Abba with a kippah       and the kids' table in front of the grownups' table

Mirjam, of course, brings wonderful Moroccan food,
and not only to her sons Shim'on and Marco.
But I suffer seeing her in this role
of toiling and drudging for us all.
I suffer even more,
because I know, that for her as for so many housewifes
this is a way to run away from emptiness and boredom,
from not knowing her task on this planet, in this family,
from not finding, what gives her zest and full-fill-ment.

During dinner Victor began to tell the his-story
of their immigration to Israel in the sixties.
He still has not reconciled himself with this fact.
He still yearns for Morocco, and so does Miryam,
whom he blames for having pushed him to leave Paradise.

Much, much could be told about the interactions
between the different family members on the night,
and about my effort - for the sake of the second generation-
to make them understand, that Judaism demands you to say:
"It depends on me!"
"If I'm here, everyone is here!"

 
Continuation of Mika's "Heaven-on-Earth", in SongGame June 29, 2007
there is still space on the Song page of June 28, 2007 - but I want to leave the space open for future love-songs....