2004_04_05
Only about 800 people live along
the western shore of the SaltSea.
The most famous is Ein-Gedi,
formerly a kibbutz, now privatized as most kibbutzim.
I've told, how it came to be, that
I enjoyed their hosting facilities for 20 hours.
The archeologist Dr. Gid'on Hadas
from Kibbutz Ein-Gedi, who at this spot, discovered the amazing
anchor from a Roman boat,
which proved the theory, that , indeed, in Roman times - unlike
today - there were boats on the Salt Sea
Yuval-David, my "peer" with
Maryam Raz and Moshe
Maryam (Michal) Raz, from Kibbutz
Ein-Gedi, an expert in date-palms, and artist in weaving together
different parts of the palm.
She spent two years in Morocco to learn this, and together with
her partner Moshe (right), gives workshops in this art.
I imagine the children on Noah's
Shore becoming engaged in this satisfying and communicative
handicraft.
Since I hitchhike a lot,
especially since my solar system was stolen 17 days ago,
and I am walking-hitchhiking to Ein-Gedi Fieldschool (see further
down) or the Youth-Hostel or the Petrol Station
in order to charge my computer and - in the evenings - work on it
at the same time,
I come to know more and more people of Kibbutz Ein-Gedi.
One of them is cheerful Yehuda Cohen, of Yemenite origin, who has
been working with Ein-Gedi's date palms for many years.
We are both sitting high up in a female palm , where he thins out
the fruit stems.
Close to the plantation is the
Ein-Gedi Fieldschool, where I found refuge in 1999,
thanks to Yuval-David Zuckermann, now my - uncommitted - partner
in Training Dreamers
I'm coming down from the
park at the edge of Nakhal David and pass the building, in which
most of the Fieldschool workers live
On
the 29th of November 2011 -
at the start of our escapade to my Cave in memory of this historical
day - I marveled at this mountain.
Here , in 2003, I viewed it above that infamous "dining-room",
the building of it has never been finished unto this day (2011),
The digging into the ground had caused great ecological damage..
The project which I proposed in 1999, in order to make use of the
monster, was rejected.
December 6, 2011:
I don't remember these people nor my connection to them.
And I am sad, that still nobody knows, that Mitzpe-Shalem is on
Palestinian Land!
[to be continued and completed - Dec. 2011: I never
came around doing this...]
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"
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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"
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