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!"

After the party Elah asked me about a passage in a play,
in which she participates at the Beit Zvi School of Performing Arts
I wouldn't have dedicated 2 hours of my time to studying the issue,
if not for the synchronicity concerning "being hit by a lightening",
which continued on Friday
(when wanting to tell Tomer about Tony Cicoria I asked:
Do you remember our talk about "Barak" (lightening in Hebrew)?
He thought at first that I meant Barak Obama, the new president-elect
(someone else has paid attention to the connection between
Barack Obama, who on November 4 was elected
as the next President of the United States of America,,
and the Israeli Minister of Defense Ehud Barak!]
and then on Shabbat, with Elah's question:
"I was sure, you would know the answer to Adela's question rightaway!"

I didn't know about St. Barbara and the lightening,
I didn't even know about the author of that drama
The House of Bernardo Alba,
which is a shame.
Learning about all three:
St. Barbara,
the Spanish author Federico García Lorca
and this play , written shortly before he was executed,
I'm again grate-full to Elah for teaching me and wrote her so.

Saint Barbara in the English Wikipedia

Saint Barbara became the patron saint of artillerymen.
She is also traditionally the patron of armourers, military engineers, gunsmiths, miners
and anyone else who worked with cannon and explosives.
She is invoked against thunder and lightning
and all accidents arising from explosions of gunpowder.
She is venerated by everyone
who faces the danger of sudden and violent death in work.
The Spanish word santabárbara
and the corresponding Italian word santabarbara
mean the powder magazine of a ship or fortress.
It was customary to have a statue of Saint Barbara at the magazine
to protect the ship or fortress from suddenly exploding

How important this symbol is up to day - and for whom.....
can be seen on a website about EOD, which I don't want to investigate...
Why is Saint Barbara the patron saint of EOD personnel?
The legend about how her slayers were destroyed by lightning
resulted in her being the patron saint
against lightning, fire and sudden death.
When black powder was introduced to the western world
she also became the patron saint against accidents due to explosions,...

The Hebrew Wikipedia about St. Barbara gives the exact reason,
why she is invoked against lightening (nobody talks about shooting stars!):
her father, who was forced to execute her, was killed by a lightening:

I now ask her, if the fact
that a Spanish judge has opened an investigation
of Garcia Lorca's death
exactly 3 weeks ago, on October 16, 2008
is connected to the timing of studying the Alba play at Beit Zvi?

I also ask her, if this passage about St. Barbara and the lightening
has any weight in the drama of Lorca?


And for myself - not for Elah, who doesn't speak German,
I now searched for that ballad "The Thunderstorm",
the beginning of which I quoted to Tomer,
when we walked under lightening pierced dark sky last week,
and with which all these lightening coincidences began...

Lorca described the play in its subtitle
as a drama of women in the villages of Spain.
The House of Bernarda Alba was Lorca's last play, completed on 19 June, 1936, several months before Lorca's execution.
The play was first performed in 1945.
The play centers on the events of an Andalusian house during a period of mourning,
in which the title character Bermarda (age 60)
wields total control over her five daughters ...
The deliberate exclusion of any male character from the action is highly significant ...
The play explores themes of repression, passion, and conformity,
and inspects the effects of men upon women.
Bernarda's cruel tyranny over her daughters
foreshadows the stifling nature of Franco's fascist regime,
which was to arrive just a few weeks after Lorca finished writing his play.

The lightening as the main attribute of St. Barbara

Federico García Lorca

5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936) a Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director.
An emblematic member of the Generation of '27,
he was murdered by members of the fascist group Falange
at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.
A Spanish judge has opened an investigation of Garcia Lorca's death,
among the many others executed and disappeared,
as a crime against humanity during the Spanish Civil War and the Franco years.

Lorca "foretold his own fate
in a remarkable instance of a (typically Spanish) type of mysticism:
"Then I realised I had been murdered
They looked for me in cafes, cemeteries and churches ....
but they did not find me.
They never found me? No. They never found me."
The Franco regime placed a general ban on Lorca's work,
... [including] La casa de Bernarda Alba .

It was only after Franco's death in 1975
that García Lorca's life and death could be openly discussed in Spain.