I follow my
understanding and new lekh-lekhâ on January 1, 2009,
that - after 7 years
- I should no longer create new pages on my 2 websites,
but intermingle the evidence of new experiences with that on existing
pages.
Since March 2009 I've been "synchronizing" the chronological
process of the Godchannel.com files
with the chronological process of my photos and -
if there should be time - observations of the
"Walk About Love"
continuation
of April 13, 2009 -Cleaning at Nitzanim Beach;
latest update of this page:
July 27, 2009
One last time we eat the very good
food cooked by the "Green People" , with El'ad Yanai
as cook.
Chanan has just been served by the servers
Among the "Servers" today are El'ad Yanai from "The
Greens" and Avigal from the Walkers
And then one last - chosen - experience of cleaning....
by two German women.... Susanna and Christa-Rachel
later joined by Jey Key, the American
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[Again: now on July
27, I want to at least recall,
what I saw as the meaning of this terrible cleaning-up:
What those 20000 youngsters left behind -
and I won't even start to mention
what kind of things that included
.....................................................
is symbolic for all the feelings,
which are left behind
ignored
denied
unhealed
by humankind in general
and by the Walkers-about-Love
in particular...]
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On
August 11, 2009 I came across a sequence of beautiful wave images,
taken at Nitzanim Beach in 2002...
That night a private bus brings us from Nitzanim
Beach to Jerusalem , Matzlevah Valley.
During my scholarship year in Jerusalem , 1960-61, I used to pass
by this monastery almost every day,
when I came from the Hebrew University and the student hostels
on Giv'at Ram to town.
And I wondered, if I would ever come close to it.
Now, after 49 years it happened...
The next morning, April 14, 2009, I get
up early - from a comfortable mattrass in a room -
in order to make a sentimental walk between the monastery and
the Rehavia neighborhood,
When my mother visited us in 1966, she
could - unlike us - take colored photos.
That's how I came to receive a photo of the Matzlevah Monastery
in 1966
Maybe, on July 28, 2009, I can still remember
the story of that morning:
From the Scout Center, where we were permitted to camp inside,
we walked over to Sacher
Park below the Knesset, Israel's Parliament.
It was the only time that I saw myself walking with Martin (Slovenia).
Our special guide was Arunja, the kingly looking Arab from Ramleh,
husband of a Jewish wife, whom I had met and talked with at Shittim.
During that first part of our long Jerusalem day the mood was
down.
There again were too many "hitchhikers" and too few
"hard core" walkers.
As we came close to the Park, we were told
that there we had to prepare for our parade.
"Why didn't they tell us that before?" said Martin,
"I don't even have my juggling equipment with me!"
In that moment a spirit of leadership jumped on me:
"Martin, please run back and bring your equipment!"
The spirit stayed with me and paired with someone else's spirit:
Yig'al took over, as he would do so often in the future.
There was no "group", especially no music-band.
Everyone was sitting around idly, moody.
So I began to spot people with instruments.
I addressed each one separately and urged him
to sit together with the other musicians
and play!
People were reluctant to follow my quest,
but then they came, not really excited,
for they had never met each other.
I sat little Matan together with big Matan (="giving")
and an improvised concert began to raise everyone's spirit.
So that we could start with the parade.
Across the head of a new walker - Justas (Slovenia) - two girls
hailed us from two windows.
Later they joined us and told me, that they too belonged to the
Walkers.
We began to play and to dance , though no citizens
were around ,
Arunya on the far left, Martin to the far right, Michael (USA)
in the center
We move on to another location in Jaffa Street
The Walk about Love passes by the old Knesset,
which at "my" time, as a student in 1960-61, was still
in use.
We cross the junctions, heeding the traffic lights, watched by
people on the sideway and in the shops.
The juggling woman in the center is Louise from South-Africa,
now England.
Martin and Louise - seen from the back - seem
to move towards the others, now with Dvorah Perlman in front.
We shall meet her later ...
