"Plant something beautiful
that will grow in the Crack!"
--from "Song for the Homeless"
in my book "The Rebirth of Mother Earth,"
1989.
September 17, 06
7:30 AM
Came home last night
to my overstuffed room.
This room disturbs my
peace of mind.
It has too much in it,
and yet I do not know how
to approach making it more liveable
although the answer is very simple:
Get stuff out of here!
Woke up with a new Understanding.
I am taking an Ayurvedic formula
for tranquility that increases my Understanding.
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Went to a late night Selichot
service at the home of Ellen and Wayne Dosick.
Selichot is the service the week before
the Jewish High Holidays begin.
There was quite a spread of tasty
pastries, chocolates, and some grapes.
I brought in some organically grown,
local concord grapes. Ellen put them on a dish.
Not sure how many ate them.
They were not as pretty as the pies.
I ate the pies too.
Selichot is about asking for forgiveness.
There was one prayer by Burt Jacobson,
the rabbi engaged to Rabbi Diane Elliot,
my friend.
The prayer says throw it out.
There are body movements that go with this poem.
Diane may have added the body movements.
I realize I am depleted now from doing too many things
this summer.
I saw something very bold.
Just focus on a few things this new season.
That is all I can handle now.
Take the lines from Job's Prayer as printed here.
Have them translated into Hebrew.
Have them translated into different languages.
Get that song from Debbie Friedman, the singer
that she sang at last years High Holiday services.
It is a chant.
The lines in it go, "Sow in tears,
Reap in joy!"
Maybe Stan, my Rabbi friend, knows those words.
Maybe I can get Debbie to sing it to me over the phone.
Hopefully Stan can help me with those words.
I would like to do that song on the Yom Kippur
when I am with B'nai Horin.
I received a request from an elementary teacher
who was enthusiastic about the Job's Tears and the Enchanted
Garden.
I will do an activity at B'nai Horin with the kids.
I would like each kid to have a necklace with one bead
of Job's Tears. Job's Tears are the original Love bead
from the 60's.
One of my housemates had one strunk on a simple thread.
It was very inspiring.
There is an enormous crop to be harvested.
I have some lovely art pieces that go with Job's Tears.
I am exhausted in my life from doing too much.
I am going to focus on a couple of seeds this Fall Season
as I regain my strength, so I am in the flow of having
lots to give.
I have numbers of lovely photos of Job's Tears growing.
It feels right to focus on the Job's Tears
and tell the story in my own way of Job
who lost everything and then had all restored.
Best Friend gets all hyper and vigilant
because the story seems to say that he lost
his family and when all came, this certainly
could not be a replacement for who he had lost.
The main point is, He was Restored.
The daughters of Job are said to be the Fairest of the Fair.
Even Jung did some writing on Job.
I want to look over my own writings on Job
and do the basics this Fall
simple Plant Your Dream planting
of Seed Dreams.
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Dear Mr. Goldman,
I am writing this letter to
inquiry about the Job's Tear seed.
I found your address in a copy of Countryside Magazine.
I have been looing for these seeds for years.
My aunt Etta Watkins used to grow them and
string them up to make me beads when I was only 7 years old.
Now I am 74 but I never forgot the beads.
I would proundly wear them to school but then we moved
away and I never could find them again.
I would be very grateful to get some seed of them.
Mrs Rosa Lee Bowers
Tuckasegee, North Carolina
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Our World so deeply asks now to be restored.
Our World so deeply asks for simple
natural remembering.
May the Job's Tears from the Enchanted Garden
help re mem ber me.
I have been feeling all Cracked Up.
May I be the Last Crack on Earth.
Seed Dream Fall '06:
1. See how many people end up wearing
Job's necklaces.
2. Start with the meeting tonight.
3. Empower the Seeds in a bowel
with our shared seed dreams for a successful weekend.
4. Make one or more Whole Being
Art pieces, as Rob asked for Whole Being pictures
with some simple Enchanted Garden message.
I feel I am capable of doing some simple things.
Last night at the Selichot, I just listened
and ate the pastry. I could hear a number of times
fainting an inner voice asking me to redirect the Jewish
energies back to the garden, but I did not have the
strength to speak up last night.
I will find the Strength.
I am hesitant to claim Renewal now.
I am still feeling a need for a lot
of self nurturing and self care.
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