2004_04_22

This light is a delight. I got it as a gift from "Solarpower.com", when I came to tell them that my entire solar system had been stolen, and that I wanted to figure out with them the model of a small mobile system. So far the mobile system does not function, but this light welcomes me at midnight, when I return from charging the computer at Ein-Gedi Fieldschool. I mounted the head with the tiny solar panels, integrated tiny batteries and six tiny bulbs, on a honey glass with water.

 

My relationship with technology is rather pathetic.
I fight, I curse, I judge, I rage, and of course, "IT" fights back.
It's a physical law, that whatever or whomever I fight, becomes stronger.
"What you resist, persists."
I never do this with people. Why am I doing it with technology?

More about this fight can be traced in "Noah's Diaries".

Before I started to make my home in a cave,
I was ignorant of "Cellular Internet".
Nor did I even think of doing what I had done before so often:
to install a solar system in the cave,
so I would have light at night
and power for the computer and the cell-phone.

On January 13 , on my way to a Family-Constellation-Workshop with some or the other participants in the AUschwitz-BirkenAU retreat,
there were several mystical incidents , indicating, that I should work with the cellular Company "Orange".
Though the ad in the center of Tel-Aviv did advertise another company:
the color and the text were one of those signs...

There came weeks, during which I cursed "Orange"...
but now, the cellular Internet is the one technology which works most of the time....

It took five weeks to make the cellular Internet work in the cave.
Even the director of the technical support of "Orange" came and tried.
The solution was found, when I finally succeeded
in causing the Cellular Company and the Computer Company to cooperate...
February 2004

  

 

It was Yuval-David's idea that I should have a proper cooking-stove and 12 liter gas-bottle. This too was stolen, together with the solar system. But Yuval-David took care of a new one. Unlike the solar system, which I cannot renew, even if I would have the money, because it would be stolen again, I don't think the thiefs will bother with the gas-system.

 

The first panel - 55 Watt- served me already in my tent at Metzoqee-Dragot in 1998. Later I added a second panel - dismounted from the caravan, which was part of my bus. Ten days later both panels and the battery and the battery protector were stolen.

 

 

As I said, this mobile system does not yet function,
though the Bedouin electrician from Segev-Shalom (5 km east of Beersheva) did a good job in organizing the different parts and cables.
I brought everything back to Solarpower.com and asked them to develop a mobile system, since this will be in high demand in the near future.


For the time being, I have to content myself with the beauty of the honey-light...

 

   

Lass dir alles geschehn, Schoenheit und Schrecken. Man muss nur gehn. Kein Gefuehl ist das fernste. Lass dich von mir nicht trennen. Rainer Maria Rilke, aus "Gott spricht zu jedem ehe er in macht"

Let everything happen to you, beauty and horror. One must just go. No feeling is the farest. Do not let yourself be separated from me. Rainer Maria Rilke, from "God talks to each one before he makes him"