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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">peak in redness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; text-align: -webkit-auto;">And then she gave all of them to me to share with my sister!</span></div>
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Nature represents to me the Face of G*d, and I help to reveal the Holy One.<br />
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My heart swells, exploding with joy as I greet my garden this morning, as my garden greets me. Home after being away for the weekend, I am grateful to again be in my garden. My hillside eastern distant view is fog-filled today like an Asian landscape, and no mountains are visible. They will return.</div>
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This morning the garden Hawk is shouting noisily as it flies overhead, not even soaring, but intent on flying far.<br />
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The cute little Hummingbird with its long beak is perched on her tallest branch of the fig tree, budding with new spring, bright green leaf growth and teensy baby figs the size of peas! It's <i>Shehecheyanu</i>* praise time. The bright morning sun illuminates the dazzling iridescent Peacock-colored feathers of Hummers back. Her wings quickly flutter and she then continues quietly to sit doing her observant morning meditation before flying off for nectar. Hummer returns throughout each of the days to her 18 foot high look-out point. As I photograph the beautiful jewel-hued feathers I'm careful not to fall down the slope.<br />
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Nearby and within view of each other, Ms. Mockingbird, singing her continuous sweetest symphony of song sits on her favorite perch on the highest prickly branch of huge Pyracantha bush growing on the top of northern slope high above my Citrus trees and Fig tree.<br />
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Every day I am so blessed to see my friends. My smile from deep inside reaches out, spreading, stretching across my face; yes, ear to ear. No need to contain joy, I call out, "<i>Thank you G*d, I love you</i>."</div>
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Two new golden Daffodils, the pair side by side and amongst the growing artichoke plants, face the east near edge of slope. (The little Paper-Whites have already blossomed and are dried.) Careful not to slip down steep side, I crouch down low to see closely inside their faces facing the rising sun. Luckily this year, although we need them, rains had not pounded down, dirtying in the earth, a lone daffodil's pretty face. One Daffodil, the first, had already visited adjacent to the lengthy massive purple Hardenbergia vine along the southerly wrought-iron strong fence. Ms. Hardenbergia (looking like tiny baby purple wisterias) has been giving me the greatest blooming pleasure last couple weeks but sadly they too are finishing. I've never seen another Hardenbergia in Los Angeles.</div>
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The season's first beautiful blended red and white, delicious fragrant Double Delight rose (a favorite child) is opening her bud to majestic form. I am in love with you. I breathe You in deeply. How much can my heart accept? Toward my down slope I see the yellow Freesias, low to the ground; a dozen buds on a straight slender single stem accompany the opening of the first delicate face with millions more of the stems to come alive and then curve down with their weight. The Freesia bulbs increase while my beloved Daffodil bulbs decrease from the many dozens I'd lovingly planted in years past.<br />
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For brand new birthing I am sooo excited to see under the pruned and mostly barren fig tree, my opening orange Clivias. One thick stem cluster has appeared in joy with two more tight clusters readying to slowly open. I am so grateful that the Clivia transplant from the front garden I did a few years ago has succeeded. The hiding clusters used to visit in January and now flowering is beginning of March. The garden is confused by strange weather patterns.</div>
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Standing at the high fence and looking down the southern slope admiring the purple Lupines, across the street in the distance I see a woman rummaging in the neighbor's trash as it sits on the curb waiting for Monday morning pick-up. This scene I don't like. I think she will explore my garbage next and sure enough she crosses the street... In my cozy warm purple pajamas I go outside the front door and ask what the middle-aged stranger was doing in the neighbor's trash. "Bottles to collect for cash". I open my recycle blue bin to see what I can give to her. Yalanda is walking a neighbor's dog, as she works full-time down the street, she says, for a "mean woman." I listen and share compassion. I tell Yalanda she is fortunate because while working as a day house cleaner for the couple and their teen child, she gets to be outside on a beautiful morning and walk the cute little dog. </div>
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Yalanda admires my perky blooms. I go inside to get my pruners and cut tall red flowers for her. I ask if she has a garden. Speaking a little Spanish, I tell Yalanda that I learned from my parents to share the garden that comes from G*d. I explain that my young flourishing succulent garden (good for drought areas) has also come from little cuttings gifted to me. I cut each of the flowering succulent varieties for Yolanda to also plant in her garden. Receiving her gratitude, I also pull out and give Yalanda rooted babies to grow the same amazing red strange flowers that she is admiring. <i>Lagartijas</i>, Lizards I think they are called, flower in the sun, not really in the house. I know as I've had them when I was a child. These flowers had come from my father's, z"l, OBM, Florida garden 35 years ago. (Hummingbirds enjoy their tubular blossoms.) Next year Yalanda will have her own new colorful garden. We share smiles and say to each other, "I love you".</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Blessed are You, G*d, Spirit of the universe, who has granted us life, sustained us, and enabled us to reach this season/occasion.</span></div>
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Talmud <span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">(Berachot 54a, Pesakhim 7b, Sukkah 46a, etc.</span></div>
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Red Bryophyllum, Kalanchoe (Lagarhito)</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">at least 20' high in fig tree</span><br />
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Aeonium Altropurpeum with yellow flowers, dark Aeonium Zwartkop and Agave Attenuata</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Aeonium Arboreum Altropurpeum flower<br />yellow flower detail each 1/2 inch diameter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">spikes about 10" tall</span><br />
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Fig tree birthing babies<br />
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Although a whole hand, fingers first, plunging into water makes a splash, even the slightest sense of a simple single finger tip touching water, radiates out RIPPLES and delights me. We never know what ripples effect are really created by our own thoughts, words and deeds. May we be blessed to create and share only good ripples in our universe. </div>
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Ripple reflections for me are a joyous meditation: connection, silence, harmony, vibration, breath, peace, prayer, playfulness, expansiveness, endlessness... I love being in the water and exploring and discovering.<br />
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"Ripple Reflections" is my very first video, and I'm thrilled it is also with my original music. For me, this video is a<i> Shehecheyanu</i> moment, and just in time for <i>Rosh HaShanah</i>. I dedicate this 'finger art' meditation to my new granddaughter who is having her Hebrew naming at Torah this Shabbat. (She is named for water.) Together, may we be blessed to 'finger paint' in awe, magic, and wonder of G*d's universe. In addition, I dedicate this spiritual water meditation to my rebbe, Yosef Ben Shlomo Hakohen, z'l, on his first <i>yahrzeit, 27 Elul</i>. HIs Torah ripples radiate.</div>
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I'm very grateful to my 'life guard' Edith who allows me to swim and play each morning in her beautiful pool. For my new computer creative opportunities, I'm grateful to my caring, smiling, skilled and patient Apple teachers (especially Catherine and Casey who guided me in the editing of this video and sound clips compilation, Ripple Reflections 1). THANK YOU.</div>
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Harav Yitzchak Ginsburgh states, "<i>The circular form of the samech symbolizes the fundamental truth reflected at all levels of Torah and reality: "their end is enwedged in their beginning and their beginning in their end.</i>"</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">About 20 Hummingbirds were present when I shot these photos. It amazes me that they sit at length, leisurely eating/drinking because I had learned that Hummers don't stop flying! </span></div>
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Each morning after swimming in Edith's pool, I get to pick juicy red fruit of the vine.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">This morning at 7:30 am, as most mornings for the last 3 weeks, I've been blessed to swim again in Edith's pool this summer, and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">89 year old </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">Edith continues to serve as my excellent Life Guard. With her sitting at the edge of the pool, I never experience anything but absolute joy. With high Valley temperatures, I'm grateful for the warm water once my body gets immediately acclimated following the few moments of body entry chill. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">What I call the Shin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">*</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;"> Tree gives me much pleasure. Many shots I've taken of the mature three palms only five feet from where I enter the pool, but this morning I focused on the little fig tree growing in the middle of the bottom of the very tall three palms where they join in joy. There's a couple of other plants also in the center; a baby palm and another plant, maybe another tree. Usually I photograph looking up to the top of the tree with big bunches of dates hanging and large fronds, and with beautiful blue sky behind.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">The fig probably caught my attention because only this last week has my fig tree offered me luscious ripe dark purple figs. Because I pruned so severely this last January for Tu B'Shvat (birthday of the trees holiday), it has taken longer for the fig tree to regrow new branches and to manifest its bounty. (I gave away all the small branches for people to grow their own fig trees, hundreds.) The figs are now also higher and harder to reach because of the powerful pruning I needed to do to save the heavily laden branches from totally toppling the trunk. In sadness, I feared that I might have lost my 31 year-old magnificent mother tree but she survived the surgery.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">I share this "joy in the morning" with you. Since Tisha B'Av (a day and three weeks period of mourning Jewish tragedies that befell us at this time of Av over the centuries) is now over, I can again feel great pleasure in the pool. Sometimes I consciously limit my swimming to only exercise and health. Yesterday I prayed so long and deeply on the steps before entering the pool, that I forgot my intention to swim and when Edith came outside to greet me, I was still praying and dry, and alloted swim time was disappearing. Yesterday was tomato juice </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">**</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;"> making morning for Edith, so I could not stay too long.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">Last week I experienced a new vision in the pool. I was a set of oars; kayak oars. My arms became oars and I was happy when I realized this. Sadly, I have not kayaked since over a year ago. Even in Costa Rica this year, I didn't get to kayak. As you may know from my other posts, other years, in the pool I've been cymbals, a seahorse, a turtle and a cello, but last week I was oars! I shape-shift. Many times I imagine that I'm in a lake, especially when there are leaves and palm seeds floating on the pool surface. Edith's pool is a great place of visualization and holy meditation for me.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">Today like many mornings, from inside the pool I look up at Edith sitting in the old grey plastic chair and see the morning sun shining from the East through her beautiful wavy white hair. I sometimes wish that I had my camera in the pool, at the deep end where she sits near by, because there is more shade. With another new good camera, I don't think I'll risk it. Did you see my fun water ripple shots from last summer? I love standing on the pool steps and jiggling my hands or knees in the water so that waves form and make wavy water reflections and I meditate on them and become mesmerized. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">Lola, Edith's large black lab continues to doggie paddle swim with me, chasing after her green tennis ball that Edith pitches far out to the pool or garden for Lola's exercise. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">The hummingbirds continue to visit. Edith saw ten today. They are too fast for me to count as they fly over to suck in through their long thin beaks, her specially made sugar food mixture in the four hummingbird hanging feeds. The dragon fly visits in the pool as I swim, as does an occasional wasp flying by or floating on the water. And of course, Edith's garden grows and feeds her family and guests, and I luck out this week with ripe red large yummy tomatoes. I used to eat them on the spot standing in the dirt, but now I carry them home to eat each bite with basil leaves on the plant that sits on my kitchen counter. It's my third basil plant from Trader Joes; For my birthday, Edith gifted me with the second basil. Most amazing about this plant is that every time I add water to the pot, the leaves exude a strong basil aroma, so I keep watering it for that pleasure. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">I save some of the tomato loot to share with my sister, Faye. Yesterday I shared fresh lichee nuts with Edith. It's a rare treat to find them in the grocery. I also love to share my figs with Edith because her fig tree is still young. (I love sharing my figs with everyone!) I'm greatly grateful to have dear Edith in my life. I love her.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">A week after posting the above, Raul the tree climber ("a monkey"), came by with his spiky climbing shoes, ropes and electric saw, and cut off most of the palm fronds from 5 tall trees, leaving the trees looking very different, naked. Edith's trees and Edith's huge furry cat have all been shaved this week.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">*</span> <i style="color: #0b5394;">Shin is a letter in the Hebrew alphabet which appears to visibly have 3 legs joined together. Shin is also a letter that represents a name of G*d, Shadai, thus I love what I call "Shin trees"; trees that look like Shins. Shad is also the Hebrew word for breast. G*d can be compared to a loving breast filled with mother's milk flowing to us when we yearn and there is a 'let down' of the milk.</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">which is referred to as water(<a class="tiny" href="x-msg://252/#footnote10a" name="footnoteRef10a" style="color: black; line-height: 14pt; vertical-align: text-top;">10</a> </span><em style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Zohar</em><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> II, 175b) </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">for it descends from a high place to a low place....(</span><a class="tiny" href="x-msg://252/#footnote11a" name="footnoteRef11a" style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14pt; vertical-align: text-top;">11</a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Cf. </span><em style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Tikkunei</em><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><em style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Zohar</em><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> 69:105a)</span></div>
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Bon Bon, Annie's cat, has been living with Edith for a few months. Today was the first time I had interacted with Bon Bon. She doesn't like new people, is what I'd been told because she'd been abused in her earlier years. It was morning swimming time for me at Edith's and I was surprised that Bon Bon came outdoors to the garden by Edith's pool. I decided to jump right in and greet Bon Bon, or rather allow Bon Bon to meet me. I carefully walked slowly over to the standing huge grey cat with very long thick hair and I said, HI. Cat looked at me, and meowed and I also meowed and we continued the conversation. She came closer and closer. Did NOT run away. I extended my right arm and put out my open hand. Bon Bon came over and smelled my fingers as I expected. I had passed the Bon Bon test. I felt good because an animal liked me and maybe trusted me. I tried patting Bon Bon's head between her ears but that didn't go over as well, and we both retreated. Since we were sort of friends, I took photos of Bon Bon. Here's one of sitting Bon Bon a moment before I stroked her head and she walked away back into the house.<br />
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Bon Bon, one week after the above post, received a new furdo, and if she were a dog, would look like a poodle. I need a photo of her tail. She still likes me, and especially likes when I stroke under her chin. Bon Bon loves to roll around on ground in front of me. Babies should roll this easily.<br />
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Hummingbirds love to feed in Edith's garden. Every morning I see them by the crowd (<i>"a host of golden daffodils"?</i>) when I arrive for my morning swim. Lately, Edith has been counting about ten at a time. There had been dozens before. Edith continually makes them a sweet drink. Frequently, I take down the four hanging feeders, Edith fills them, and the birds return in all their tiny glory. I hear their shrill sounds. I watch the orange-tailed bully and watch in awe at their fast flights.<br />
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During summer 2013, there are fewer hummers than previous seasons, and the feeders don't empty quickly as they did before. I only see a few hummers at a time, including one with a bright red neck.<br />
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Lola the dog and Bon Bon the cat play beneath the birds.<br />
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In my own garden, there is one hummingbird very morning, and throughout the day that sits on top of the tallest branch of my fig tree. She leaves to feed and returns. Sitting nearby on the top branch of the pyracantha, is a Mockingbird singing her beautiful symphony. This lasts all spring. As the leaves fill the early summer fig tree, the hummer is no longer visible to me, if it is present.<br />
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My summer mornings are filled with joy as I unlock and push open Edith’s sky blue, high, heavy wooden gate, and enter her garden where she invites me to come and play each new day. Visiting is always an adventure, even before I enter the pool’s cool blue water. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Walking around and greeting the immense garden reminds me of when as a social worker, I used to be go on ‘medical rounds’ and greet patients. I see the new pretty pear blossom buds on the newly planted tree, about five feet tall. (See the sweet closed buds in the photo collage.) I must be careful walking to the new fruit trees at the far end of garden, because Lola, the large lab, uses the lawn for her daily elimination needs. Lola and I are good pals, and I greet her first thing in the morning when she greets me with her loud barking and wagging tail.<o:p></o:p></div>
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At the end of my swim, my friend Edith invites me to pick some of her ripe, firm, teensy “mini pearl” bright red tomatoes, shaped like tear drops, and smaller than cherry tomatoes. I go home and wrap my growing basil leaves around each 'pearl' that survived the trip. (See them in the photo collage.) This is the first time in her 88-year young life that Edith purchased and planted growing plants, not seeds. She says the taste is not the same. I taste the big difference. Her vast tomato fields used to look like a forest while these few plants, no longer abundant, are manageable and controlled as Edith needs gardening assistance.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I noticed that I can jiggle my knee for a moment or at length, and I giggle as I see new worlds. The more I jiggle, the more vibrations form wavy lines and swirls and travel in varied distances. The shapes formed appear to me like amethyst geodes, my favorite stones. If I jiggle long enough, colorful rainbows appear on the reverberations, probably from the sun changing position. It’s as if crystals were catching the light. The water ripples are like dancing gemstones.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When I stop in silence, spaces/rests occur in the distance between ripples. I feel that I am composing a musical score in color and space. In addition, I add my right knee (“put your right knee in“) with a jiggle, although it does not jiggle as easily or quickly as the left knee. Now, the music becomes really exciting and lively, as the notes intersect and flow over each other forming other new organic shapes. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Like a rhythmic drum practice paradiddle in 8 strokes, I give a left jiggle, and a right jiggle, and a double left, and a right and left and double right, and repeat that opposite and with a chorus, and I got a whole score happening. LRLLRLRR and RLRRLRLL. You should see those reverberations in the water. If I don’t stop jiggling; they keep going and going. (By this time, the water is warming up, as is the air, and Edith, the life guard, is wondering why I’m not yet swimming in the water as half an hour has passed.) I don’t tell her I just finished practicing for my week’s drum gig.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Jiggling is as if I am drumming on my knees. On knees is no longer a good idea because my knees are not well, and maybe that is why they jiggle so good, especially since I had a bad fall recently, and my knees loosened up even further than the former ruined state they have been in. (That’s why swimming is so good for me and my knees.) I wish I could do a belly dance shimmy as well as I jiggle my knees.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I think the reverberations are similar to the echo sounds emitted from my Tibetan singing bowls when I play them with my wand, and my breath. If I play sounds more closely together, they reverberate in patterns similar to when I play my knees faster, while I wear my ripple suit. This is Oneness personified. The ripples remind me also of my cymbal sounds, when I perform as percussonist.<br />
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I love purple amethyst geodes, and the forms of the water ripples remind me of quartz crystal amethyst clusters. (A month ago, I spent a couple hours savoring the beauty of massive majestic geodes in the Washington, DC Natural History Museum, as I've done also in NY and Boston. I have a small amethyst cluster, which I treasure, that I inherited from my mother, z'l.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the collage you’ll see my morning’s joyous favorites from today, the ripples, me photographing, and also the palm trees. You can see in the swimming pool, the reflection of the group of Edith’s three giant palm trees.<br />
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The palm tree’s most amazing unopened two feet long and narrow seed pod fell to the ground from a zillion feet high. Edith knew what it was, and I did not. I carefully peeled away the palm frond’s tightly closed leaves to reveal not yet birthed into the atmosphere, not yet frothy, palm tree seed pod flowers. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Wow</i>. I had never before seen this. If you look high in the sky, you can see the fluffy clusters of seed pods resembling cotton in the blue sky and sparkling in the sunlight.</div>
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Palm tree seed pods release tiny round black seeds, the size of papaya seeds. Those seeds each contain life for a new palm tree. Lo and behold, there are a zillion baby palm trees growing in the cracks of the cement and bricks by the pool-- and everywhere else in the garden. With Edith’s permission, today I pulled out many of the baby trees because they can damage the property. For your viewing pleasure, in one photo in the collage, in the palm of my hand, you can see two baby palm trees, each with the seed attached to the roots. It is awesome. With each plant and creature I greet in the garden, I receive great ‘joy in the morning’, and also unexpected pleasures, treasures from The Source of All BlesSings. I am grateful.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">My "morning rounds" include opening the Blue Gate, seeing the growth of the Red Bartlett Pear buds into blossoms, and watching little yellow birds fly out from the yellow flowers in the cactus garden, and pulling baby palm trees from the brick crevices-- as the Aztec sun shines on us.</span></div>
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To read more about Edith, my dear friend and life guard:<br />
<b><a href="http://joys-inthemorning.blogspot.com/2011/07/edith-my-life-guard.html">http://joys-inthemorning.blogspot.com/2011/07/edith-my-life-guard.html</a></b><br />
<a href="http://joys-inthemorning.blogspot.com/2011/07/joy-in-morning-swim-time.html"><b>http://joys-inthemorning.blogspot.com/2011/07/joy-in-morning-swim-time.html</b></a><br />
<a href="http://joys-joyousjoy.blogspot.com/2011/03/where-i-swim.html"><b>http://joys-joyousjoy.blogspot.com/2011/03/where-i-swim.html</b></a><br />
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<b><a href="http://myfriendedith.blogspot.com/">http://myfriendedith.blogspot.com/</a></b><br />
with a link included to You Tube and Edith's Persimmons<br />
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,JOY Krauthammer, MBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08720282712169644162noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5341555967363940718.post-11702855468670061922011-07-12T07:36:00.000-07:002013-06-16T08:59:49.792-07:00EDITH, MY LIFE GUARD<div style="text-align: center;">
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I had not thought of "life guard", the profession, in terms of much else besides the paid person high on their viewing stand at the pool or beach, but in writing these two words, I think of how Edith, my 88 year old mentor, must think of herself as my 'life guard'. Edith is a welcome <i>shamash </i>/ protector of body and soul. She is a blesSing to me, and a "joy in the morning".<br />
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Here is a photo I shot yesterday of Edith as she perches high above me in the deep end (that is where the shade is) as I swim early mornings in her pool since a week ago. Do you see the sun glistening in her wavy white hair? (The photo would have been easier and smarter I realize if I had shot it from the shallow end. Balancing and protecting my non-water proof camera in deep end was not easy.)<br />
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Although slightly warmer than the cool morning air, the water is not warm after sitting 12 hours overnight, although San Fernando Valley days are 100*, maybe higher. I had waited eight months to get back into Edith's pool, since I stopped swimming at the end of the High Holidays, the end of September. The water must have been much less than 70* at that time. Polar bears would have shivered, but I love so much to swim, that I was not ready to give it up, and imagined I was an ice cube. Edith was shocked that I kept entering the unheated pool. Even Lola, her trusty big black labrador shivered from the pool water. Yes, we share the waters, though my hair is not floating all over the water and forming hair balls that go into the filter, I am sure. I also don't bark loudly trying to play ball with Edith, waking the neighbors early in the morning. I don't repeatedly drop slimy sloppy green tennis balls in Edith's lap as does Lola. (See the apron.) Lola is probably more loyal but only because she is a dog. And I heard her snore, and whine. Edith does not get those traits from me although I may <i>kvetch</i> / compain at times, and even yelp as I enter the freezing water at end of season.<br />
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Remaining to swim too late after season, I also didn't want to give up noshing in Edith's garden. Each morning Edith allowed me to pick some little cherry tomatoes or big tomatoes from her garden. I would bring them home and wrap sweet basil leaves (from Trader Joes and my kitchen sink pot) into the red moist flesh of the large home-grown real tasting tomatoes. Sometimes they get over cooked in our heat. Yesterday with the first tiny specimens of the season, I wrapped a small basil leaf around each finger nail-sized cherry tomato which Edith had generously shared with me. Once plucked easily, they fit in the palm of my hand, single layer. Driving, I carried them home in the cheap thin plastic elasticized shower cap that I now wear in Edith's pool (I look stunning). Since I was at a Maryland hotel for a <i>simcha</i> last month, I kept the hotel throw-away cap for this occasion. I think it protects my hair from chlorine. Last summer season with my hair longer then, I put it up in a ponytail and kept my hair out of the water. I had also bought fancier, thicker, colorful caps at 99 cents store. <i>Hmm</i>, where are they?<br />
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I'm not even late yet but I guess Edith thinks she is also my alarm clock <i>shamash</i> since she just called to make sure I am coming over. She takes seriously her life guard job and gets paid in love from me. The call interrupted my train of writing, so I guess I'll go now and prepare myself to swim. I better also shut off the sprinklers because I am watering my property's big slope on this hill, and also my giant fig tree filled with ripening figs, but that's another story. There are already lots of pictures and stories about Edith, and also my figs, on my sixty different web sites. <br />
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Edith and I were also together 12 hours ago, because I brought over a delicious salmon dinner to share. We sat outside and ate in Edith's garden with the hummingbirds and butterflies flitting about. Lola slept nearby. Edith listens to and hears my life stories, some outrageous, and I can tell she must believe she is now my 'life guard'. True, Edith, I would never have allowed my daughter to do what I did growing up, but then it was the 'sixties'. Today my great life adventure is to go to your pool and swim with 'joy in the morning.'<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;"><b>Love, JOY</b></span><br />
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<b><a href="http://joys-inthemorning.blogspot.com/2011/07/joy-in-morning-swim-time.html">http://joys-inthemorning.blogspot.com/2011/07/joy-in-morning-swim-time.html</a></b></div>
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The very morning </div>
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a scene I had never before seen. </div>
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Edith, dear friend in her 89th year,</div>
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at 7 am called to tell me </div>
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her home’s interior </div>
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was infused in pink from the sky.</div>
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I went outside to see. </div>
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I saw another world, </div>
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mountain behind mountain revealed.</div>
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I am grateful.</div>
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While I went to Maryland for a cousin's <i>Bat Mitzvah</i> the day after the doves began to build their nest in my hanging succulent planter, the doves in my absence continued to nest; building and laying their two eggs in Northridge, CA. I was some what happy that they would have peace without my comings and goings which may disturb them.<br />
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Late at night during a long lasting lightening storm, following the east coast day-long <i>simcha festivities</i>, and driving back with family to my hotel-- at a gas station I saw the long gasoline truck with statement, FEEL THE LOVE. (see photo) I emerged from the car and walked over alone to the truck at furthest end of gas station, and with camera, shot, FEEL THE LOVE. This was clearly the day's expression with <i>mishpucha</i>/family I had not seen for a long time.<br />
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I felt compassion and love for the female dove who tenderly nested in night time, and for the male who nested during day time. I didn't realize that there were both partners separately nesting, until I read Wikipedia! They had grown accustomed to me, and I felt protective of them.<br />
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I was concerned when I returned from the east coast trip because I was leaving again in a few days, as I did, for my Jewish spiritual international gathering-- the Aleph Renewal Kallah. The doves were nesting and I told the young man (not yet a teen) caring for my garden, not to water in that hanging planter. (I had left water nearby for birds' drinking and bathing.) I was so looking forward to the future feeding little babies. With my calculating the days, I was sad that I'd be missing their breaking through the shells and their birth. I learned that incubation to hatching is two weeks, and feeding, maturing is also two weeks. I didn't know what day the eggs were laid.<br />
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While at Kallah in a movement class with Rabbi Diane Elliot, we participants were invited to become animals. This was easy for me. I became a nesting mom bird over two eggs, and I also became the eggs. We were then asked to paint our shape-shifting being. With Crayolas, I painted Ms. Dove; the me I had become. I also became a baby birdie being fed by mom bird. I liked my painting done from memory (even if not purely accurate) which you can see here, and joyfully shared it with classmates. The red splashes in background are the rose bushes* in my garden. During incubation time, I watched Ms. Dove and Mr. Dove together sit on the ground for a few hours by the rose bushes in their shade, in the hot 100* heat of the day.<br />
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Upon my return, my 88 year old wise mentor, Edith, has advised me to share in the story, my reality of sadness, because I had not. The message I did not want to share is that-- I returned home to an 'empty nest'.<br />
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Nest was not completely empty because there was one empty egg shell in halves. I have heard more of the sad story from a neighbor. I found the other empty egg half shell further out in the garden. With love and care and sadness, I buried the empty shells in my garden.<br />
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May we be blessed (as my Jerusalem rebbe Yosef Ben Shlomo HaKohen reminds me) that creatures in the messianic age: <i>"Live together, the wolf with the sheep, and the leopard will lie down with the kid; and a calf, a lion whelp and a fatling together, and a young child will lead them."</i> (Isaiah 11:6)<br />
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I so much wanted to share a happy ending with you, too.<br />
I have since heard each day, one dove cooing on my roof, on the top of the antenna.<br />
Another neighbor sent me a sweet photo of two current doves in her eaves, nesting. Their corner location looks identical to the one in the lower left hand corner of my photo collage below where the doves had been scouting for their home. Eaves look much safer, and not visible to the outside predatory world. May the family of doves be protected.<br />
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OK, I figured it out.<br />
There is Baby Bunny and Big Bunny. In my garden there are more than one!<br />
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Look at the photos below and see Baby Bunny and also Big Bunny.<br />
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I just remembered that Marcel, z'l, used to call me Big Bunny and called Aviva, Little Bunny. That's why I still call her "Buns". Let's see what Aviva call her upcoming baby.<br />
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Here's today's collage of Back Yard Bunny. I think this bunny is not last year's Little Bunny. The coloring is similar but different. This bunny sprints faster and is more afraid. I think he's smaller and with less elongated ears and less white color detail. His tail is not so much of a cotton ball. Of course, last year there were actually two bunnies that I would see together.<br />
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The photos here I shot through my kitchen window glass and also through the torn hole in my screen door. The slightest sound, especially opening the porch screen door, gets this little guy running, gone! So far Bunny likes the grassy area by the roses, and also across the yard near the porch corner. Photos through the porch glass didn't come clear, although Bunny was closer.<br />
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I discovered Bunny about a week ago while talking on the phone to friend, Ruth, at about 7:30 in the morning. I was elated. Ruth could probably hear me squeal with joy all the way to Malibu without a phone. Each time Ruth called in early morning, there was Bunny. Now I'm seeing Bunny daily. Last night I was thrilled to see Bunny at 7:30, but in the evening.<br />
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The funny thing is that it is about a year ago when Little Bunny first appeared. Around the same time, the wild doves were beginning in my porch planter, to build their nest from the remains of Bunny meals, denuded twigs. Sure enough, last couple days, a pair of doves are back, and also eating from my lawn. <i>Hmm</i>, I hope they don't remake the nest in the succulent plant. The stress waiting for danger to pass during nesting was too hard for me. Those stories are below.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Today, as each day this week, as soon as I woke-- before 6 am, I, quick as a bunny, checked on the nesting dove. Ms. Dove nests on her two white eggs in my hanging donkey tail succulent filled planter, outside only feet from where I work and watch as I write. I feel as if I am Ms. Doves protector, but leaving for my week-long Kallah in two days, I am concerned about predators. Couple days ago, I was aghast to see the two large local red-tailed hawks sitting in my garden on the grass. They have never landed at my home, but only soar constantly over head perching in the neighbor's tall palm tree.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">It is strange to me that mom dove does not mind me often walking past her as she is by my door and window. (She seemed mostly calm as I hung to dry all my colorful hand laundry near her yesterday.) Amazing to me also that Ms. Dove does not fly off with my visitors or even the gardener mowing the lawn. She is doing her job. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">She doesn't mind the wild cute bunny with the white cotton-tail that visits. Unlike Ms. Dove, Bunny does not let me come close, but scampers away, hopping through the wrought iron gate by the blooming passion flowers, or the gate at the end of the long path. (See the photos in collage.) This is probably the same bunny (or one of the two) that was in my front garden in the dark of evening, a few months ago. I see Little Bunny also inches from my front door in the little flower patch. Ah, maybe that is why the lovely lone red nasturtium flower is missing.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">For a potential nesting location, the pair of doves had explored my porch eaves and both of the hanging planters. They made other chimes bounce and sing when they landed and perched on the chimes decorated with colorful exotic birds. It was their play ground. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">They chose plush succulents in which to build their home. The nesting place sways gently in the soft breeze. I wonder if they like the swing effect, like rocking a baby. </span><br />
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Today was my 4th sighting of Bunny Rabbit. (See today's photo.) Is it because I used to call my young daughter, Bunny Rabbit (now shortened to 'Bun'), that I now have a visiting bunny in my garden? It really makes me happy and I smile. I don't think it makes the bunny happy that I see it. (Him or her, I don't know.) Why do I think that? Because the bunny freezes when I get near at 8 yards away, with camera in my hand. This is the 3rd time I've seen Bunny this week in my back yard. Today's visit was early at 7 AM and he left through a side fence, dashing past succulents and under the flowering passion fruit vine. The other day I tried following Bunny with a camera and he jumped quickly away and out through the front wrought iron gate. The first time was several weeks ago when I saw Bunny in the front yard as I drove into my driveway late one evening, after 9 PM. My car lights caught the vision. Excited, I sat still in the car. I thought maybe the animal was a giant gopher or opossum, but after it moved following its freeze, it jumped! I knew. I wonder how often Bunny is here.<br />
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I see Bunny munching on my little patches of green grass. I'm not sure if he discovered my few berries on the vine, low to the ground. I don't think it is eating the new leaves on my baby fig trees. I don't think Bunny eats the oranges or grapefruits on the tree. Is he waiting for the figs to ripen? So why does Bunny like it here? I'm glad Bunny is not in my friend Edith's garden, because she grows lots of lettuce for herself. The other day, I went into a grocery and ordered freshly made carrot juice. Bunny didn't show so I drank the whole juice myself.<br />
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For Bunny, I am afraid of the overhead hawks. Luckily, lately last few years, I have not seen the unwelcome hungry coyotes which were always present. I called my neighbors and no one claimed ownership of Bunny. One said they'd seen a couple rabbits on the hill where we live. He's so cute. My daughter said he'd make a good pet. When ducks flew in here to my garden a few years ago and swam in my spa, I considered them my pets because I fed them and they came close.<br />
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When I was a child my older sister, Arielle, was given a bunny as a present from a Staten Island cousin, Paul Bell, z'l. I loved the bunny. I called it Bunny Boy. My younger sister, Faye, and I played with Bunny Boy. (See B/W photo) Later I was told Bunny Boy was a girl. My dad built it a cage. My mother gave away our pet.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I'm sooo excited that this morning a wild bunny was in my garden and has returned. I expect that again there will be lots of bunny pellet poop, and plants nibbled. I haven't seen Bunny since last spring, and I've been really upset that the hawk overhead and the coyote in my yard aren't friendly. (The daily gopher needs to be extradited!) So here's Bunny. She finally hopped into the sun for a moment to be photographed before running off when she saw me. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">This is my 'photo safari'.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><b>With JOY IN THE MORNING</b>, I shot the photos of <b>AriellaShira </b>and her newly created Gemsbok Shofar.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">My thoughts below are reprinted from </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><u>THE HEARING SHOFAR</u></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">As a temple musician-- a passionate performing percussionist and sound healer, I share with you that the Purim grogger, festive ritual noise maker (used to drown out Haman's name in Megillat Esther reading), is similar to a GEMSBOK SHOFAR. A Purim rattle is twirled and spins round the handle, and causes a thin flat piece of wood to flick over (‘to and fro’) a NOTCHED cog wheel set in a frame, making a noise. By cutting off, separating several inches of the slightly curved, black, smooth pointy tip of the long Gemsbok's horn, to create an opening for the shofar mouthpiece, it is revealed that this horn tip can be used as an 'offering'-- as a percussion scraper on the set of natural raised ridges of rings encircling the brown wide end of the raw, rough, splintery Gemsbok horn.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">When rubbed in ‘to and fro’ motion with a PUA *, on the thick transverse rings, rasping percussive sounds are created and ‘heard’ on the horn, as on the grogger. Could it be that the shofar was a signaling instrument in alerting the Persian Jews that they could be saved from the king's edict in Shushan during the reign of Queen Esther, thus making the horn also a culturally authentic grogger? Hearing the Megillah and Shofar are both mitzvot.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Ethnic scraper percussion rhythmic instruments are spiritually used in most world cultures for sacred moments. (Scrapers and shofars are in LA’s Howard Ethnic Instrument Collection, Watts Tower Arts Center.) Performing world-beat percussion, I use a frog shaped wood guiro (Vietnamese or Thai), and also a Gemsbok-like guiro (Latin American) made from hollow gourd, aka calabazo, with parallel carved out grooves, along with a fragrant sage branch stick PUA, a scraper/wand, to make long and short raspy, ratchet (and croaking) sounds.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Biblical Miriyahm HaNeviah, the Prophetess, a percussionist, Shemot, Exodus 15:20, was also known as "Puah"*, Exodus, 1:15, a mid-wife, who sang soft cooing sounds as she gently rocked ‘to and fro’ and stroked with her voice and hand-- like a wand, the baby boys she saved from Pharaoh's edict against the Jews. Gemara Sotah 11a. As Puah with (po'ah) she drowned out the sounds of the murder edict.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">My friend, and ritual teaching partner, ARIELLASHIRA LEWIS created with Michael Chusid's (Hearing Shofar) guidance her GEMSBOK shofar for rituals, by carving the opening, the hollow 'inside' mouth piece. She is a healer, and a Ba’alat Tekiah/shofar blower for Simchat Chochmah ceremonies (</span><a href="http://www.simchatchochmah.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">www.simchatchochmah.blogspot.com</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">), and for women's Rosh Chodesh/New Moon rituals, as is traditional. With her soulful breath/Ruach, and holy kavanah/intention, AriellaShira beautifully and with awesome rich sustained sound, plays her new Shofar. AriellaShira created this personal ceremonial tool during her Simchat Chochmah, and shamanic journey. I think her shofar is from a female Gemsbok.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">AriellaShira joyously demonstrated to me, as she stroked her new Gemsbok horn's wide end and long length of ridges of rings with her PUA/wand--horn tip, that she transformed her Shofar to be used in holy ritual and ceremony, also into a scraper PERCUSSION instrument. AriellaShira fashioned the horn’s cut tip into her wand for her musical playing pleasure. (See photo collage of AriellaShira playing her Gemsbok shofar as a wind and percussion instrument. <a href="http://hearingshofar.blogspot.com/">http://hearingshofar.blogspot.com</a>/ 2011-02-21) AriellaShira Lewis, from South Africa where the Gemsbok roam, informed me that Gemsbok is pronounced with a gutteral 'ch', ‘Ch’emsbok’. The sacrificial ram, the 'offering' in Torah's Genesis 22:13 Akeidah, may have been crying out for us to hear, "Use me, don't abuse me. I shall make music for you."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">BlesSings for magical healing sounds, health, wholeness, shalom and joy,</span><br />
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<span class="comment-timestamp"><a href="http://hearingshofar.blogspot.com/2010/01/making-gemsbok-shofar.html?showComment=1299871508258#c4126099559480361967" style="color: #215670; text-decoration: none;" title="comment permalink"></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; text-transform: none;"><a href="http://www.joys-music.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #215670; text-decoration: none;"><b>Joy Krauthammer, MBA</b></a><b> said</b>...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; text-transform: none;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; text-transform: none;">Before I realized that I, too, can create a shofar and GEMSBOK horn grogger to use in my spiritual music, I purchased my foot-long Purim grogger in Jerusalem where I also purchased my shofar. Now I joyously look forward to having the "Hearing Shofar" maven, Michael Chusid, guide me in creating my own percussive shofar.</span></dd><dd class="comment-body" id="Blog1_cmt-7192179616393441750" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.25em;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">What excites is that I can create a PUA/wand from a Gemsbok horn, and play the shofar as percussion. This will enhance and amplify my spiritual playing. See my earlier COMMENT on AriellaShira Lewis regarding this transformational experience.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I love that the PUA is also a name, PUAH, for Miriyahm HaNeviah. Exodus 1:15. This connection is meaningful to me-- joining woman's voice in Torah to percussion.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I include PUAH teachings shared from one of my rebbes, Rahmiel Hayyim Drizin:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>'Puah'</b> This was Miriam (called Puah) because she cried and talked and cooed to the newborn infant in the manner of women who soothe a crying infant. Puah is an expression of crying out, similar to “Like a travailing woman will I cry " (Isa. 42:14). Rashi on Sotah 11a explains that she played with the infant to soothe and amuse him. Rashi to Shemot 1:15, citing Gemara Sotah 11a</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">‘Pu'ah’ is Miriam; and why was her name called Puah? Because she cried out (po'ah) to the child and brought it forth. Another explanation of Pu'ah is that she used to cry out through the Holy Spirit and say: ‘My mother will bear a son who will be the savior of Israel’. Sotah 11a</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">During the High Holidays, 1995, Makom Ohr Shalom held services at UCLA. Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (Aleph and Jewish Renewal movement founder) officiated with Cantor Monty Turner. (I am one of their musicians.) Reb Zalman knew that I was trained by my husband, Marcel Krauthammer, z'l, in blowing shofar. I felt good that I could play all the ritual notes. Prior to Rosh Hashanah, Michael Chusid demonstrated to me another technique for blowing shofar that I continue to share when teaching others to play.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Reb Zalman, during the Days of Awe service, called upon me to come to the bima and play my shofar and "to represent the women of the world". He was aware that a major international conference on women had just finished in China. He wanted that powerful energy to come through the voice of the ram. With great kavanah, I sounded the shofar for the congregation.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">As a mitzvah, and in my husband's <i>zechut</i>/merit, I continue to play shofar, even over the telephone, especially for those Jewish friends who miss my husband playing shofar for them. May his soul continue to have an <i>ilui neshamah</i>/soul elevation.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Have a joyous Adar and</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">BlesSings for hearing shofar, rhythm, having gratitude, health, shalom and joy,</span><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7;">JOY Krauthammer</span></span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Serve G*d With Joy</span><br />
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