Thursday, September 28, 2006

brilliant . Yoram Raanan's work



As I was walking down Yaffo heading toward the old city.. I came across a gallery showing Yoram's work.. I was instinctively attracted to them.. I think they are absolutely amazing. I then checked out his website: www.yoramraanan.com

It's full of wonderful surprises..

I loved his quotes on his website: I'll share some of my favorite quotes and paintings..

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes”
Marcel Proust




Swimming Reflections
2004
“..The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them..”
Thomas Merton


“..Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet..”
Roger Miller



Tefila
1986 – 2004
“...When a person comes to pray and request to the Creator, that He should fill his lack, it is certainly necessary that his prayer should be clear &‘ that is to say, that he knows clearly what he is lacking. This means that when he goes to request from the Creator, he needs to prefigure to himself that he is speaking before the King who is able to do him good so that he will be the happiest person in the world, as nothing is lacking from the house of the King. If so, the person needs first to consider well, before the prayer, in order to know what is truly lacking to him. Then if the King fulfills his lack, so then he will not be lacking anything, and he will be the most perfect and complete man in the World..”
Baruch Ashlag



and there are so much more.. You'll just have to visit his website..

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

fun day BH.

1:29 PM maya: hi! how was the speech last night?
me: Rabbi Zeller's I missed. I came to Rabbi Poupko but missed most of it.. I was too late..
1:30 PM I hope you had a good day.
1:31 PM You should check out the Israel Museum if you get a chance. I went yesterday. There contemporary art exhibitions are brilliant
*their
1:38 PM maya: hi back, sorry
sorry you missed it.
1:39 PM nothing on the horizon for flats..frustrating..i left messages, now they have to call back..
1:42 PM me: doing anything special today?
sorry we got disconnected..
1:58 PM me: on another topic.. do you know any frum female musicians
1:59 PM hey - thursday there is a really cool class. I have attended before and I loved it! MTV
M---Mystical [musical meditations]
T---Tools [and techniques]
V---Vocal [screaming and emoting session]
KOL RINA 6-9 PM

THURSDAY SEPT. 28

THE NACHLAOT 'SHELTER' SHUL

ACROSS FROM # 26 BEER SHEVAH STREET
maya: i saw that posted on janglo, thakns
:)
2:00 PM me: I'll really try to make it. Have you been to kever rachel?
2:01 PM I am thinking of going on Thursday and then to this class. wanna join?
we can talk then of what I had in mind (or not..)
2:04 PM maya: i'm still looking for a flat and as of now it seems ill still be looking tomorrow
so i dont think so.sorry
2:05 PM next time
and now i'm SOO curious as to who else was online at the same time and what you wanted to speak abtthat's so hush-hush :)
2:06 PM me: suspense.. you'll have to meet me.
maya: um i;;d like to look at a hostel in the old city today..want to meet up?
2:08 PM me: do you want to skate to dead sea as well.. or just hitchike and get a swim..
I am now in Bet Shemesh..
2:09 PM maya: i dont have skates
me: hey we can nix my dead sea idea.. I know of something else going on tonight.. selichos @ marat hamchpelah..
2:10 PM maya: hmm
what time?
me: so maybe I'll head to the city later
I think it said on the posters 23:00
2:17 PM maya: k
2:18 PM me: k what? I am not sure about the time and day.. Did you see the posters
2:19 PM maya: nope
me: I am hoping I recall correctly..
whatever.. I shouldn't be lazy.. I'll come to Jerusalem.. I am sure something is happening.. somewhere.. adventures to be revealed..
2:20 PM maya: true
im so bored. tired. and havent found any flat yet, so why not an adventure?
2:21 PM me: where do you want to meet? the earliest I can be in Jerusalem is around 4:15
don
maya: where do you come in? im near center of town.. but ill walk to center
2:22 PM me: don't stress about the flat.. hopefully it will work out.. for the best.. do you now I sqauted and then got a $30,000 a month loft for free.
2:23 PM maya: how???
me: I come in at the knisa la air.. but could get off the bus anywhere.. how about we meet somewhere on yaffo and walk to the old city?
maya: G-d loves you! wowee
2:24 PM abt the loft
whered you squat?
me: Chelsea the best locations for artists..
maya: ah. thought you meant here:)
how'd you get the loft??
2:25 PM bec. now I have renewed faith in Hashem.
me: not for chat.. If I am taking the bus in a few minutes..
maya: who knows, maybe somethin glike this'll fall into my lap after allthis stress..
me: G-d loves everyone.. hopefully we are not afraid to see it..
maya: ok. u hace a cell? no
*have
me: may we never lose faith..
2:26 PM in G-d, ourselves, and the world!
no cell.
maya: amein to that. really, really, really
(maybe thats why i'm here. who knows)
2:27 PM me: so where are we meeting? I need to catch the bus?
I've got three minutes to get dressed and leave
maya: yafo and??
whatever good for you.
king george?
2:32 PM me: ok. In front of Neeman. 4:15 about.. But don't look at your watch.. I never wear one.. and could come later..
2:33 PM maya: no prrob
me: bye! you'll get to see my punk rock haircut..
maya: vcool!
petites rock!
me: but otherwise very conventionally dressed.. denim skirt..
me: see you.
maya: same
maya: wait whats neeman??
ive heard of it but..
(Sorry)
me: I am sure you know.. the bakery..
I am missing my bus..
נאמן
maya: ok, ill look for it on king george
bye
2:35 PM me: ask around get your gps
it is on yaffo corner king george at the intersection
bye

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

The power haircut!

The power of a bad hair cut.. a hair chop

It can make you pray like never before..

I was vulnerable, naked, standing in front of G-d with my true essence. I lost my outside identity I was familiar with.. This happened in a moment. It was a total shock.. I wasn't prepared at all..

I walked into the hair salon/hair styling academy.. with my hair being in a ponytail. I haven't gotten a haircut in a year or so and my hair was now long.. below my shoulder.. In a moment, all my hair in the back was chopped off.

I asked for a shoulder length haircut with some layers.. I must have been this students first haircut model.. and accidentally all my hair in the back got chopped … Realizing this.. I immediately got up and ran out before any more of my hair was chopped. My hair in the front wasn't cut yet, so it was about chin length, and the hair in the back was real short like an inch or less. I now had a funky punk hairstyle..

Just too cool for me… or the other way around.. I am too cool for such a cool hairstyle.. I don't want a hairstyle which shouts looks I am cool. I want my coolness to be coming from within.. It should be emanating from my essence .. with beautiful kind deeds.. and not by a hairstyle..

I felt weird and uncomfortable with this punk hairstyle.. especially in Jerusalem Eir Hakodesh in the high holiday season…

I later went to the kotel.. My prayers were powerful and real.. This haircut opened my heart.. and enabled me to pray from a higher state of awareness.. Thank You Hashem.
לב נשבר ונדכה ה' לא תבזה
תיקר שירת רש בעיניך כשיר יושר על קרבניך

May all our prayers be answered for the best and May Hashem bless us all with
the sweetest year!

So I guess a bad haircut once in a while is healthy.. it is a good reminder.. Making you aware of who you really are…

I pray that I am not challenged again.. I pray that I see beneath the façade through beauty kindness compassion and not any pain or the slightest disappointment.. but I guess I needed this reminder.. and it had to be through this hair chop.

כתיבה וחתימה טובה
to you my fellow blog reader, all of Klal Yisrael and the entire world!

We are all one. Interconnected intertwined.. one soul.. we are ready for a new world! Where the truth clarity and goodness shine!

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Sleep Deprivation Madness- 87 hours and still going: Extreme worcaholism G-d forbid..

87 hours and still going..
Am I the new David Blaine?

I got back to NY but I am buried under work... I have been up for 87 hours (minus 4 hours. I dozed off on the train on both directions 1 hr each way.. and another 2 hours Monday morning.) and still going.. I hope not for too long. This is ridiculous.

I am not trying to challenge myself to see how long I can last without sleep..
No. That is not my intention..
I just don't have enough hours..

I just got back from Alaska.. my sister had to leave her apartment and move out yesterday (she got less than a 2 week notice) I needed to move too and I wanted to help her out as well..
Two Clients I have designed applications for, decided just now that they needed me to complete their system and need it done immediately.. . within a few days..
and besides that I need to finish up the video I am co-producing..
between all these gigs I am just totally not myself anymore..

My comfort is that I will soon be a free spirit again and this is all by choice B"H.
I have a ticket to Greece but every day I call up and change my flight to a day later.. it seems like Greece is not happening now.

I'll just be going to Israel G-d willing on Sunday. Yeah!