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InteGRATion into
GRATeFULLness
Singing&Sounding keeps me Sound
What is it, that I have to say about Christmas, Weihnachten,
44 years after I celebrated it for the last time?
See on December 24.
Ihr Kinderlein, kommet,
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Christmas
Folksong lyrics: Christoph von Schmid (1768-1854) tune: Johann Abraham Peter Schulz (ca. 1770) |
Since
I cannot identify with the text, I'll not sing it, but since its tune brings up feelings of happiness, I'll remember it in my Song Game like some other Christmas songs. |
The song
as I sang it since the age of three,
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ENGLISH Ye children come O see in the cradle There he lies, ye children |
"No access to Bethlehem" - an image
on the Internet, Christmas 2005
2010
continuation of graveyard sequence
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SongGame
2007_12_26 German Christian Hymns |
SongGame
2007_12_25 Stille Nacht |
SongGame
2007_12_23 Ihr Kinderlein, kommet |
SongGame
2007_12_22 Es ist ein Ros entsprungen |
SongGame
2007_12_24 Ich steh an deiner Krippen |
SongGame
2007_12_28 Jewish Festival Songs |
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I chose to photograph this not pretty composition
- as a contrast to most of the other pieces and corners on my mother's graveyard,
and also because "Our Dear Mother Hannush"
- - was called "Rahel",
and died 4 months before my birthday "safe
in the arms of Jesus",
and also because Melki Hannush [died 1944] , who was probably her husband,
lies so sweetly next to Rahel, despite the belligerent quote:
We are marching to Zion.
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 If this man had been killed in that war, I would understand, that his soldier task is mentioned on the grave, but why was it important for him 44 years later? And why should the death of "Saints" be more precious? 
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The musician who taught me to play the organ since the age of 13, was called Walter Lutz.
I wonder how it happened, that later our family moved to an area of Stuttgart and to a small street: "Elsterweg",
where we were almost neighbors of the Lutz family.
"In your hands are my times",
the motto of the German woman,
who lies next to an Arab man, is also MY motto.
It
is included in Psalm 31, to which I adapted a song, which I learnt from
a guy from New-Zealand in 1978.
 We were closely befriended with another Ernst Simon, a pupil of Franz Rosenzweig. I owe even more to his son, Uriel Simon, who taught Bible in my scholarship year, based on what he had learnt from the principle of Rosenzweig and /Buber. |
 Ernst Simon [1899-1988] said about Buber: Fame is the sum of misunderstandings about a person. He was, like Buber, a member of the first "peace-group" in the twenties: Brit Shalom. |
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Two people who became very old,
Damian Vasile (from what country and language?) became 88 and Margarete Grumach
from Koenigsgraetz became 95.
While searching for Koenigsgraetz in Tchechoslowakia, which rang a bell in
me, and indeed there was a famous battle in 1866,
I came across
an interesting information:
"Religious leaders hit back at
Hawking
Sat, 09/04/2010 - 15:08 - NLN
Religious leaders in Britain on Friday hit back at claims
by leading physicist Stephen Hawking
that God had no role in the creation of the universe.
"Spontaneous creation is the reason why
there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist,"
Hawking wrote. And on Sept. 4, 2010,
someone reacted :
March seperately, battle jointly...
Like General v.Moltke at Koenigsgraetz, 1866
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Margaret Alice Palmer "fell asleep in Jeus",
1944 , and Ruth Prince "Laid down a Life" in 1998
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Black : died in Safed ~~~~ White: died
in Beersheva:
I cannot recognize the nationality and language of the two people on the white
stone
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And yet another perspective of the graves and flowers
in front of the flood, the rainbow and - as I learnt from the artist Patricia:
Abraham & Sarah
Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His
saints
Psalm 116:15
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Isn't it lovely - to find a stone - just a marble
stone - no grave, no name, no date, no place, now quote,
with my favorite word?
In the afternoon,
when I walked with my German Family through the German Colony to their youth-hostel
to fetch their rented car for spending the Eve of Shabbat
with the family of Ronnit, my daughter, Regina's cousin (I
hitchhiked to Arad),
I , by chance, discerned the sign on a shop on the other side of Rafaim Street.
This sign, too, said "JOY". See
my composition towards the end of Learn&Live
2.
I discovered, - in my photo-archive - that I had photographed
this restored Templer house in Rafaim Street already in 2003
Perhaps the quotation from Isaiah - which also appeared on one of the tomb-stones
- is more meaningfull now in 2010....
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Back to beginning of this sequence
or forward to yet another experience
with this grave and graveyard - with Yanina, my friend, 2 weeks later
or to the photos sent by my German Family about their visit of Regina's aunt
(me) and her three Israeli cousins+their families
, in SongGame 2007_12_22