Poet Beth "Batyah" Elishevah Ginzberg expresses her creative poetic meditations about water as a very powerful atmospheric element of the environment. Ginzberg wrote these poems at the East Rogers Park Lake Michigan Beaches, on-the-spot, to experientially convey the full effect of the Great Lakes of Chicago, IL USA for your reading pleasure.

Tuesday, October 29, 2019

DELIGHT IN DELICIOUSNESS

Deliciousness? To delight in it? How about Tuna Casserole? Unfortunately Tuna contains a poisoning from water called Mercury and it should only be eaten three or four times per year. This Mercury poisoning causes the illness of Dementia, that is why older people get Dementia, it is from years and years of eating Tuna. Tuna is cheap, inexpensive so it is the food of the poor, not as a nice delicious fish like the Sardine that is more expensive and does not contain Mercury. There's King Oscar Sardines that come with tangy tomato or yellow mustard sauces, olive oil, black and green olive chopped pieces, delicious red pimentos, not spicy, instead smoothly mild. And a King's? Yes, a royal food of the Kings of England! A United Kingdom's knighted knight's treat of a delish hors d'oeuvres good for parties to celebrate all year round.

The smoked fish called Chubs. It is good! A good deeply and powerfully smoked fish fillet, comes with the head on it it is so very fresh. To use your fork spoon and knife to dissect it to brush away the small bones and to delight in eating this smoked fish so good, no water pollutant poisonings, a good fine fish a real delicious supper!

Tilapia? A white colored pure fish, farm-raised, a good price not overly priced, a recipe to microwave it and to pour red tomato sauce over it and add pieces slices of white real onion. Really incredible! To put it all over Chinese white rice. Steamed puffy mounds of pure white rice. How good this fish really is!

A Lake Superior White Fish. The best! To buy them whole, stuff them with a breaded breading soaked in milk, pure white cute cow's milk, to make a thin incision into the body of the fish, to overflow it then with a delish breaded super stuffing, a munching meal fit for a King and Queen. And for you! A special routine time to eat this fish? How about on Christmas Eve? Sounds good and tastes good to me!

Sunday, October 27, 2019

WHAT TO APPRECIATE AND WHAT NOT TO


Can you think of things to appreciate keep a positive viewpoint and make lemonade out of lemons? What to be thankful for? What to appreciate, what to love. Is love a bad word? If it is associated with unrequited love a love that is not true, then it is an expression of deceit, and not real love. How can we have real love? To have an amulet or a locket filled with your loved one's hair to wear, to always be thinking of this loved one, to appreciate her kindness. Not to kill or be killed with kindness, real kindness that is supportive and helps you. Nothing from a liar, to bowl down these liars like bowler's pins, to get a strike or a spare, to win the game. Three holes in a bowling ball. A ball that is black or that is now available in different colors. Brand new beautiful bowling shoes, not to slip in a bowling lane shoes snuggly smooth to feel good a perfect fit. 

To go to an artwork gallery to see different wonderful paintings, to even have your own original painting hanging on these walls. No need to hang a criminal in a noose, instead to hang a picture of beauty or one of truth not to be censored. A picture with an image you'll never forget, to develop a photogenic memory, to never forget a face. To think of your loved one's smile. To have a picture of your deceased relatives or pets and to carry it with you to see anytime anywhere, to be in the storage of your pics on your iPhone or hanging on your walls in your home.

To have a relationship with a spirit, someone who is helping you go through life, a spirit of one who you love but is no longer in your physical presence who now is a spirit and with you always and forever, never to leave you, just to think of them, remember them and they appear as an image of loveliness when you conjure them. 

Not to have fear, even if you were brought up as a kid with fear. Change this fear into love. Who to love? You can even love a pet rock. It's made up of fossils perhaps bones of a fish or animal, a zillion year old rock. Just a pebble? Yes, it as a pebble that King David released from a slingshot to kill Goliath. Not to use even a pebble as a source of violence like David did unless it is in self-defense.

Do you have a pair of shoes to be thankful for? A pair of athletic shoes not high heels, high heels that cause bunyans. These athletic shoes are comfortable and cause walking and running with ease. Lasting years and years. Cloth shoes, vinyl not leather not an animal's precious skin. Not to dissect a real animal for furs and skins, especially not foxes. Foxes are good not bad animals they have red fur and we need to preserve them from extinction along with all the other animals that are being used for clothing and foods. Veal meat is bad, why, because of the way the calf is housed in a small cage unable to move, this causes the meat to be softer, but the calf is living a life of torture, not able to walk or even get up into a standing position!

To have a good meal of food on a Sunday, a meal of vegan foods. To eat fish. To live and let live, to love and let love.

Thursday, October 3, 2019

THE OCEAN IS GREEN NOT BLUE

Tangled up in blue? Gone with the wind? How to come back to Earth where there is heaven, leaven, no heathens? What's a heathen? It's a heave ho, a pirate walking the plank jumping off the boat, a witch she does not float, drowning in her own tar pit filth, waves of a giant lake that are flooding the shores, no sandy beaches of recreation, instead whipping waves snatching stones circulating them smoothing them, a simple stone? A diamond? Or a golden but not olden nugget. An oyster shell, to ring the church bell on Sundays. Listen carefully you'll hear the sea inside of a seashell. A crab meat not artificial, real true, honest, no deceit, a name that is real, legal and not imagined, reality, goodness, wonderfulness, a name that rhymes with Mary, as merry. Skip skip skip to my Lou, skip to my Lou my darling.

Thursday, September 26, 2019

FLOWERS EMPOWERED POWDERED POWERED RED

A bouquet [French] of prettiness a blossom a pistol in the middle of the blossom, powdered pollen on this pistol, allergic reactions to pollen keep the flowers outside clean filtered air inside. Ragweed, Hay Fever. Feverishly in love with flowers, floured bread feeling to sip afternoon tea for you and me and eat English Biscuits. Croissants. Cuteness as we gaze into the mirror. Mirror Mirror On the Wall who is the fairest one of all? Me and you cutey, two make one, one plus one is two, plus another one is Three...

Red and Green Geraniums flowers, leaves soft and furry like a Teddy Bear smooth sumptuous soft a bear without a beard, smooth men's skins not a mouthful of fuzziness, to spit out stray hairs. 

The Venus Fly Trap a flower of a people-eater, a flower with a blossom like jaws, Jaws a Florida shark, a white shark, shark teeth beaded as a necklace, the teeth of many sharks a feeling of a bite from a Shark into your neck vampires from this toothy necklace, rubies are red violets are blue, these rubies being precious stones not semi-precious, red rubies loving the color red! Red is a color of love and sincerity, kindness, sweetness, red candy life-saviours. Golden candy wrappers, made in Germany like Heineken Beer that comes in a green glass bottle and Mercedes Benz cars that do not bend, Volvo very nice, Volkswagen for us folks. Hondas panda bears in China and Toyotas fun children's toys are good cars too. 

The Mexican Jumping Bean, a flower that produces beans that jump. Migrants, Mexicans to jump over the fence (wall) and get into the USA The Land of Promise and Equality for Equal Housing and Equal Employment Opportunities All People, all Colors, Hispanic-American Month.

This Land Is Your Land This Land Is My Land. 

Friday, September 20, 2019

SUNSHINE SUN RAYS WARMTH GOLDEN SUNTAN

Our sun? Our Son! What is goodness and can we feel this inherent goodness that is everywhere simply by feeling the warmth of the sunshine? Yes!!!

The Son is beautiful, the sun is good it is the center of our solar system but not in the exact center, approximately, the planets revolve around the sun and it remains the hottest fire, passion desire love belovedness anywhere in our world and in the worlds around us. To be like a soothing hot fire licking flames feeling like a dip in a steamy hot sauna a Jacuzzi hot red like spikes to boil water, yes, (not yeah) fire is red in color. But the actual color of the sun is green. Ripley's Believe It or Not! Yes, (not yeah), it's true the sun is green. 

To tan your skin, for it to be a golden brown tan, the touch of Midas, the Jordan King, whose touch turns your hand into gold. The sun cheeriness a happy sun a sun of love a sun to lighten your path to cause you to feel good because this Son is good. A tingling sensation of this Sun on your skin, makes you feel alive alive so you can love.

This comforting warmness, these sun rays, like golden brown spears arrows piecingly caressingly massaging upon your body skin sweetness not to get a burn, protection not to fly overly high, to maintain a balance, a scale of justice, equality with the sun in the middle in charge being the largest body of matter anywhere in the entire universe! 

The sun matters and all the people everywhere who rely on this Son matters too.

Sunday, September 8, 2019

HORRIFIC HURRICANES RAINSTORMS THUNDERSTORMS EARTHQUAKES TSUNAMIS

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Our weatherman how do you fair? Fair weather today? Lots of rain uncontrollable lightening strikes golfers splits trees in half halves haves have not, has been's tsunamis oceanic tidal waves flooding earthquakes quivering shaking trembling fearfulness hide under a table a chair in the basement away from blasted breaking clashing damaging flying glass windows. Splinters of glass shards piercing cutting deep keep from getting blown over, a helicopter sent to capture, no boats here. 

A canoe a motorboat a cruise ship named The Titanic. Women and children first. A thirstiness of water to drink sink: water water everywhere but not a drop to drink. What is "natural" water, natural water is polluted water. To save Lake Michigan to donate money regularly an amount per month, still no fish, homeless fishermen without a bite to eat. A sickly seagull must instead of fish to eat garbage, the remnants of a Hurricane of Damage. Famished. Trashed abashed.

A Hurricane named Dorian, He has an eye in the middle of his forehead windy winds, winds horrific tearing apart everything in its way. Bahamas, no more mamas no pure mother's milk sink sunk splashed no more islands, smashed. North Carolina, no longer singing carols, uh yeah no line dancing either. Demolished, doomed, no houses no gardens the rich became poor. "After death you can't take it with you." A house no longer standing, wooden or brick the thunder lightening and rains were just too thick.

To pray not for water to pray for dry land, no more cornfields 'cept in midwestern fields, Iowa tornadoes mild as can be just a mosquito there sweetly swept away. A sweep with a dust mop, sins under a rug, to cuddle up in a cotton blanket like a coo-ing peaceful dove. Two doves in love!!

Sunday, September 1, 2019

A RIGID ROCK A STONE SLAVERY A BRICK WALL

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A Yellow sturdy sandy solid compliant giant Egyptian Pyramid. Deserted in a desert. Mud. Bricks just for kicks many made of earthen clay, free the slaves break the bricks save the day, mix the clay with hay, a fallen smashed dead slave who did  not behave. A Wailing Wall a Western Wall, who to safely separate to reincarnate? A haystack Of Mice and Men, a hen a chicken coupe, a crop of hair a curling lock of a loop. Fruit Loops not made of real fruit.

Georgy porgy puddin' n pie. She's the spice of my eye, cinnamon, the peeling bark of a tree, not offensively, a bark from a dog who's swallowing everything hungrily like a hog. 

Rock n' roll rocks rolls. Rocks like white teeth, stones, golden rounded domes, the importance of washing a rock clean. Tossing a rock into a river, arrows into a quiver "teshuvah" Hebrew for forgiveness not to shiver dirty deeds wrong songs misdeeds. Sold a product that did not produce. Climbed a tree fell off a Spruce fallen  uninstallin' the broken neck of a goose. A battery for a car that has no energy at all. Solar white polar. A bear not to bare. A rock carved scraped created an Indian iron fiery flint. A scapegoat, a goats' sins, money mint, wandering prophetically holy signs sent gold mines, comfy cousins akin. 

Do you like rocks? Only diamonds. Why? Diamonds are a girl's best friend. Boyfriends over-rated. A kids' skateboard, one's childhood re-created. Your life is fated.

The sadness of a stone was skipped, flipped into lake water. To aim at a duck, to not aim well, my throw was short did not enter his heart. 

Well, where is she?? At her cottage, sipping morning porridge. Protein fiber very berry voltage. What did you eat? Blueberries, raspberries, red and blue, roses are red; violets are blue, one for you, because I love you! Is this the truth, couldn't be truer, yes, it's bluer, bluer is better. You're beautiful. Affection. A rock a monument not a sculpture, a rock as a slave's brick the beginning of the building of a holy Judaic Temple, rock by rock not a trick. 

To not forget your rock or your purse. A happy wonderful powerful Pet Rock. We love our rocks! A shiny garden of rocks, crawling roots a place of fossils, round back vertebrae bones not a sore leg to paint your garage with the bending of one knee bending both to kneel three times each day. To lift one's heels off the ground, walking a hound around, a heel lift a wooden stick, adrift. Moses to sweeten waters. Pure sugar cane there's no shame.

What is Lithuania. Latvia. Where. Nowhere near. A far away unfamiliar misplaced place of secular scientific literary fun philosophic philosophy: Earth, Water, Skies, Air. Your face is lovely fair. An inborn understanding of the elegant importance of a brainy Scientific Fair. What do you know? The Earth Revolves Around the Sun, the Moon around the Earth. Einstein's MC2: five square knots on each tassel, no hassle.

Reforming the Reform Reformed, Mathematics, Geometry, Counting Cash, Counting Minyan Members, Dollars, One Hundred, 1000 K. He's a Billionaire a Politician Bought His Way. Who Paid the Bill, His Own Donations In Business He Has Skill.   

Affection not affliction ammunition a rock a sling slung a song sung a vibrating tongue a rubber band a David King, not a scary King Kong: A Giant Gorilla, Megillah Gorilla, I prefer chocolate not vanilla!

A chocolate cocoa dream of a nightmarish nightmare a chest-beating giant brown-furred monkey who's not the key. A Titanic boat selling electronic spices still afloat. Chinese tariffs wearing down trades not traded. 

Frankincense, makes no sense. For is four is fur, Beaver trapping in a contraption. The sensibility of senselessness one only needs common sense, costs just two cents.

Friday, August 2, 2019

SOUNDS FISHY TO ME

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Camping? Fishing? "No we do not fish." Who fishes and who does not, and what this means is who likes fish and who does not, or whether or not one can stand the sport of killing fish, fresh, fishy, and then chopping off the head, take a bite. 

Kosher fish only. What does this mean, Kosher fish only, it means no shark, no predatorial meat eating fish, no shellfish, no catfish, no swordfish. To eat only fish with fins and scales: this is Kosher fish eating. The Hebrew people asked God for fish, not meat. We prefer fish to meat, and always have, generations to generations of eating healthy fish as a preference over animal meat.

Eating a shark can turn its eater into a shark. To bite everyone with your sharp incisor teeth, as a shark would, to be mean, hostile, man-eating. What does the Torah say about those who worship an alien god instead of our Lord? That he will eat himself and his children alive. Craving meat that contains blood? Kosher meat has no blood, we use salt smeared onto the meat that soaks up the blood from the inside of the meat, and then we brush it off. Torah says never to consume bloody meat. Blood is the life source of the animal, the blood contains the souls of the animal. To allow a slaughtered animal to have a soul that rests in peace.

So what is fishy? There are many fishy fishes, breaded fish, beer battered fish, blue gills, salmon that is also smoked lox. Nova Scotia lox. Lox as a fish, orange in color, a healthy complexion, as one could eat sweet potatoes and this causes an orange healthy tint to the face, to look like an angel. The Carnitine nutrient in the sweet potato is the ingredient that causes orange facial coloring. Healthy, not a problem. Looks like a golden suntan, shining like an angel.

To use a fish-scaler that when rubbed on the fish's scales rips off the scales, one by one, so we can eat this fish, not to choke on its scales. 

The eye of the fish, never closes, it does not blink, the eyes of most fish stay open. When a fish is prepared for a meal, its eyes too stay open, not to eat the bony head. The tail is good, but not the back fins. To use sliced cucumbers and toothpick them over the fish to look like scales, after the real scales have been scraped off.

One fish two fish red fish blue fish. We end up with two instead of one, and a blue fish instead of a red fish. Can we mate these two fish the red and the blue and get a purple fish! The Proverbs from the Writings instruct all women to wear some purple everyday. Purple to represent the respect of "people of color". Purpling people.

Monday, July 29, 2019

LIONS IN LOVE



Point just an index finger into moving waters [not still waters] and derive a cleanness a pureness of heart, a heart that protects itself, not a heart that is hung out dangling on a limb, a heart that knows who to love and when, and when not to. 

Can you say "I love you?" Can you say "sweetie, honey, sweet heart, wonderful, dearest?" "I love you very much!" Why not? The Torah tells us to have affection for each other. Love? Yes, love is not a dirty word. 4-letters yes, but not a swear word. If you feel this word love is tainted, [a word of romance] then instead say "affection, empathy, sympathy, mercy, lovingkindness, truth, wonderment, attachment, sincerity, desire, passion".

Feel better? Not hung out dry on a limb in a relationship of unrequited "love"?

So, does Mick Jagger help us to feel a strong powerful mightiness, and The Beatles? Bob Dylan. Joan Baez? Carol King. 

Go for it! Feel their strength as they sing as if to sing only to you in a personal one-to-one love song, for you only, individually. As they sing this beautiful singing causes joyousness, a feeling of rejoicing.

An alertness, a sounding like that of a Shofar [ram's horn]. Can you blow a Shofar? A Shofar can be blown by a woman for other women. A Rebbitzen? [Rabbi's wife?] Woman Rabbi? Yes!

The power of a great lion roaring mouth open wide as he protects his lionesses. A kosher meat ram sacrificed by Abraham instead of a human, not to murder his son Isaac. Angels who came down from heaven to redirect Abraham to save his son's life. To eat a good nutritious healthy meal of lamb chops instead.

Righteousness, goodness, greatness. To life! [not death] L' Chaim!

Friday, July 26, 2019

TORAH IS SUSTENANCE

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Water, sprinkles of water everywhere but not a drop to drink, to call pray for purple rain, seeded Cumulus clouds, not a raindrop to be had, not a teardrop. To must pray for rain, on Sukkot as well as other days, to beg the clouds to open to drizzle on our gardens, our farms, bird baths, ocean waters not to recede off our beaches, beaches becoming smaller, an infringement on our recreational beach parks, heavy splashing tides rolling in closer and closer pushing the sands up onto the shores, ducks frollicking geese flying seagulls diving. 

Red flag up no swimming, yellow flag up swim with caution, green flag up swim as you wish. Blessed to be living on/near a beach of moving waters, mikvah, a touch of a finger not to need total immersion. 

A large fish that swallowed Jonah, a humungus white whale Moby Dick, the blubber of a slaughtered Canadian whale as chewing gum, careful to not wear down the teeth. Eskimos in igloos all year round, blocks of ice built up to form a wall, blocking the cold frigid windy air, a circular shelter, no homelessness among the Eskimos. Padded down with blue, purple and red-dyed wool.

Ice fishing scooping in the middle of a frozen lake, a hole drilled burrowed deeply into the icy surface to put in a hook and sinker, to uplift Blue Gills as fish, fish more desirable than meat, the Hebrews preferred fish to meat. Sustenance. Fish oil, fins and scales kosher fish. Not a swearing Swordfish not a cussing Catfish. Not a swishing shellfish. No mean ugly Sharks, teeth as swords, weapons, no scales. Not predatory fish, not fish that eat meat. Vegan animals: sheep, goats, bulls, pigeons, rams.

"Where there is Torah there is sustenance, where there is no sustenance there is no Torah."

Kosher meats and Vegan eating, salads' green lettuce. 

Let us to have prayed, eaten, drank and been joyous! To have sung Selah! The Hallel.

Tuesday, July 23, 2019

A PIRATES' TREASURE MAP FOUND UNDER WATER

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Oi! Ahoy! A bottle of rum and a yo ho ho! A shot of whisky, golden yellow Gold Rush nuggets, a quick slippery slurp to empty the shot glass, carnival glass, etchings on the glass, a small thick glass, glass composed of silica sand. 
Where to find this treasure map? Under and into the sands of the beach, a moving waters beach, to just insert your hand into the water and you come out clean! 
Mr. Clean wore earrings, a nose ring, was he a slave? 
The Hebrew People transposed from being slaves to the Egyptians into becoming the Leaders of the World, Internationally, Chieftains, Priests: Kohen, Levi, Nazirite, Prophets, Na'avim. Which of these five are you? Or an Israelite Priest? An Israelite Priestess? Batyah, the Egyptian Princess who helped the baby Moshe out of the River Nile? To raise him as her own child. He to love her as his own real Mother. His true birth Mother paid by the Egyptians to raise her Moshe child, the love of the biological mother-to-son true love bond relationship: lovingkindness, courage, honesty. 
Where does this treasure map lead us to? Blue waters, blue skies, a deep blue horizon that separates the seas from the skies. 
Comfortable shoes for walking hiking, tip-toeing in the sand, a bicycle to ride on a path, a journey along the beach waters, rubber tires filled up with air to the brim, a silver bike tire rim, to desire a new car vehicle, to be a child in a playground and climb up and down Jacob's Ladder in a park. 
Following the angels, we are second only to the angels. An angel to put his arm around your shoulders, to massage your back, to knead your neck and back of head with strong firm hands, all stress leaving the body and brain, to wash off to be pure in these natural moving waters.
She sent me a treasure map, postal mail. Who to love, what is her advice? To like everyone. To love God.

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

ZILLIONS OF GRAINS OF SAND SINGING SONGS

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Warming up outside springtime in the air. Radiant sun's shining upon a mountain, a sand dune, dune buggies not strollers, canoes, not yachts, kayaking. Brilliance in reflections as the boats fly by not leaving the ground, skimming the surface like flat smooth thrown stones. 

Grounded, sure-footed, hiking, skipping, hitting a tether-ball, boxing in a ring. "Don't step on the crack it'll break your Mother's back!" A helping hand. Up from a chair, a Godly Goal, an Athlete with Tennis Shoes. 

Lakes' drops of greenish-bluish water, not green, not blue: Turquoise. Turkeys poised; not poison. Thankful on Thanksgiving Day.

Splashing water fiercely out of anger! California gold mining gold nuggets stream waters shake your pan, shake out sand and find the gold. Beach combing bottle cap tops. California Gold Rush. Filtering gold from sand. Buried treasure. Treasure maps. Message in a bottle afloat.

Gold teeth gold is gone. Teeth are gone. Mined with an intellectual Mind. Golden Castles, Tower after Tower. Mansions on sides of Mountains. Gasoline gushing!

Rapunzel Rapunzel let down your Golden Hair!! Climbing up Golden locks. Rivers, dams. Lox for Lunch but calling it "Brunch". English Tea Time. Big Teas little teas. English words. How many languages do you know? 

What do you teach? Torah? A pocketful of Posy! Not picking pockets. Rich in Riches because "We Lack Nothing." [Psalm 23]

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

BEATING ALLERGIES TO PERFUMED SMELLS

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What is that smell? I smell a smell and my nose tickles, is it an allergy to smells, specific smells, an allergy to the bleach in a washing detergent, the smell on one's clothes, the actual substance of soap on one's body transferred from the soap and causing discomfort? Do we need these smells like a smelling salt necessary to keep us awake? To spread the perfume on one's wrists? Not to tattoo your wrist, instead to remember never to hurt your wrist, it must smell good so you remember not to mess with it!! 

An allergy to flowers, pollen, the orange powdery stuff on the inside of the blossom. This powder being inside the perfume directly from the blossom. A smell that is nice or a smell that is noxious. To be caught in a trap with a smell on one's wrist that is a noxious smell. You thought it would be nice, a good smell, but it bit you back when you fell into its trap! 

Dry clean-only clothing. What kind of soap? It costs $6.00 at a dry cleaning shop to clean a pleated skirt. Do you have a wardrobe of dry cleaning-only clothes that you cannot clean at home in your laundry machines? What good are these clothes, they become dirty and smelly (a bad smell) and you cannot wear them! You can smother them with perfume, but then this perfume is noxious and so this is not good. 

Can you smell moth balls from across the room? Someone wearing clothes not cleaned instead being from storage and fuming a fume of these moth balls. The next day she wears a thick sweater and it smells of perfume, a smell to knock you over!! A smell not as flowers but instead like a pepper gun. To sniff the air in the entire room and it smells of her. Her and her perfumes. She is not rich enough to clean (dry) her clothes. So we end up praying for fresh air early in the morning. Praying for her to wash her clothes. She thinking she looks good and smells good. But flooring everyone in the room. Meaning falling on a floor when you sniff this stuff!  

What can we do if we are in this situation? Do we just walk out and not come back? Can we get her to walk out and never come back? Her sword is her perfume and our shield is The L-rd. What does the L-rd say to do? If you open your mouth and breathe through your mouth not from your nose, you will not smell the smell. The smelling glands are in the nose not mouth. Breathe deeply and this never allows anyone to pollute your air, ever. The air seeming fresh like lake air or ocean air as you open your mouth to not smell these perfumed poisons. 

In control when you think you have no control over the situation? Not so. If you ask her not to wear this perfume and she says "no" you have a choice to not smell it. She is unarmored and you have clean air even though she thinks you don't. 

Breathe in deeply happily just as though you are in a scent of fresh air. Thank Gd for His advice.

Thursday, March 22, 2018

WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY?

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Happiness? Overrated? Maybe not. What do you do or think about in order to make yourself happy? Gleeful? Joyous. Gay. Ecstatic. Feeling emotionally and physically satisfied? Better than satisfied? Incredibly so?

Is there a taste in your mouth from lunchtime that could be changed to become a better taste? Pop a gumdrop or M&M into your mouth, an almond? If it is sweets that you crave, or salt, then indulge, but just a taste yes, not an overload, a tip on your tongue, tipsiness.

Are your fingers craving smoothness, velvet, silk, an all cotton blouse? A pair of shoes of the exact correct fit on your feet, house slippers, shoes that caress your foot bottoms, sides, and tops, ankles, walking barefoot on a sandy shore to want to be swimming, waves that come in with the tide, each wave to love you.

Waters that are pure, waters that clean upon immediate contact, no soap. A rainfall? A snowfall? Dewy grass, frostiness, autumn trees' dead leaves, catch them grab them out of the sky, jump into a pile of leaves, hear them crackling!

What sounds make you happy? Sounds of silence? Yes. Soft sounds of a kitten purring? Sounds of soft shoes tapping on a wooden floor, gently sounds of water pouring from your tap? Water that is pure, drinkable, satiates your thirst. Sounds of dripping.

Turn on the radio, sounds of music, opera, classical music, rock, rock n' roll, guitars, violins, accordions, sounds of people laughing, children laughing, parents content. Sounds of dogs barking as they eat their sweet treat! Barking for more, giving them more! Teaching a dog a trick, him rewarded. 

Holidays? Do you love holidays? Passover, Easter, Purim, Rosh Hodesh, Christmas, Hanukkah, always another holiday on our calendars, lunar and solar calendars, more and more to celebrate. Cooking your favorite holiday foods. Throwing another house party.

Jewelry? Gorgeousness of gems wrangled upon your wrists, leg ankles, necks with new necklaces. Rings wound upon your fingers, feelingly. Sparkling sea greens, sapphire throne blues. Silver and gold. Real gold, not an imitation! Safes with combinations, locks with keys, safety, security, prosperity of assets. Crystal? Loads of shelves and more shelves with more decorations. Sparkling glass. Glass as prisms, stained glass of all colors, Carnival glass of all shapes. Do colors make you happy? Which colors? Yellow?

Looking in your environment for the location of all that is beautiful, all that is pleasing. Sounds from which to dance, to tap your feet. To enlarge your eyes as the sounds get louder and more wonderful by the moment!

A best friend? All your friends? Your acquaintances? Your family members? Distant cousins? People who go to your religious affiliation? Church or Temple. A stranger on the sidewalk as you pass him you smile and nod and he returns your happiness with reciprocation. His kids say "hi!" A children's playground in a public city park as their destination. Flowers in this park.

Everywhere anywhere something pleasing to see, to smell, flowers, incense in the pollen mingling with the wind, breathing it in and loving its aroma! To remember to put on perfume in the morning. A dab on each wrist. Wonderful breezes of colognes that tickle your nostrils!

Bees going from blossom to blossom, new leaves new flowers. Honey, real bees' honey like date honey, licking it from your fingertips. A spoonful of chocolate to stir in cookie batter, taste and smell it. Chocolate covered strawberries flipped up into a wide opened mouth!

Does all this make you happy? Not to be at a loss of happiness? To perform a mitzvoth, a deed of loving-kindness to achieve instant happiness causing someone else to be happy too.

Feeding the birds? Feeding a newborn infant, a breastfed infant? Helping your elderly mother or/and father to walk holding your arms not needing their canes.

A cup of coffee? A shot of Scotch? Vodka. Mixed drinks. A Bloody Mary? Not to bleed blood, but to drink deliciousness, a drop on one's tongue, instantly to smile a smile of happiness. 

Speaking words of pureness, words you remember reading in your Torah or Bible. Clean words, clean mouth, clean teeth, hands cleaned, washed, clean clothing, clean, clean, clean! Does cleanness make you happy?

It's great to be happy!! Even to be happy when we do not have a concrete reason! Turning a smile of upward lip lines into laughter, jolliness, even goofiness. To love happiness and thank Gd for His efforts in providing you with this happiness.

To share your happiness with others.   

Sunday, March 18, 2018

THOUGHTS MEDITATIONS MEMORIES ON THE SHORES OF THE GREAT LAKES

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How to live a memory, to be where you were and what you were doing when you had an experience that you never forgot, to be again with a family member who is now deceased, to be with a child who now is an adult living elsewhere. To feel your great love for these family members who now take on a different state of being, aura, are dead or grown up, how can we find this love for them again the love we had for them when they were with us, and when we were with them. Does dead mean gone forever? Does growing up into adulthood mean this once was a child but now has no time for you as he is a full time employee with a large family of his own, many kids?

If you are Jewish, can we call upon our deceased as we call upon Avraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Rivkah, Rachel, Leah? Certainly! The 613 Commandments say "not to talk with the dead" but we everyday many times a day pray to Gd and also to the Prophets (who are dead), so why not to our own family members who are also deceased? The Commandments warn against us becoming so involved with spirits that we would be in a world of the dead, conjuring spirits with "witchcraft" which is definitely not allowable. But to remember your deceased Mom and/or Dad with fond memories of your past with them is different than submerging yourself into "trances" (which also are not allowable in the 613). To pray to Gd for the welfare of our deceased spirits, to be with them again in our fond memories of them.

So, here we are again, dangling our feet off of piers jutting out into deep waters. Bouncing our feet back and forth splashing, waters changing from green to blue and then from blue to green and then again to blue. Silver mirrors like shiny metal of Great Lake waves sparkling like soda waters as far as we can see. Remembering Dad's "tonic" water and ginger ale, 7 Up, you toasted in L' Chaim!
 
As the waters cleanse your hands and feet as you tickle your throat esophagus with bubbling water, reflecting in our thoughts and prayers to The Lrd appreciative for a wonderful world of good things! Going forward with thoughts of love for a prosperous future for all who you know and for all the people who love you.

Thinking, using verbal memorizations of prayers and blessings out loud, to say these Hebrew prayers, even if it is just in a whisper, to be vocal and in song, to call upon our Prophets and our families, to say holy Hebrew words, not to be silent! To must sing them with meaning and not to mince words. Prayers before eating and after eating, and The Shema at least twice a day.

Gd is in this Lake we call The Great Lake, a Lake of Greatness, "Rabbah" meaning greatness in the Hebrew language. "Tov" meaning good. To be so in touch with Gd you never leave Him or never deny your Judaism when someone asks!!

The purity of moving waters on the seashores being Rabbah and Tov, and your Faith in Judaism and Gd also being Rabbah and Tov!

As always, "Keep The Faith!" Improve everyday in your belief in Gd, and in the welfare of your Synagogue and Co-Congregants.

Thursday, March 8, 2018

ONE FISH TWO FISH RED FISH BLUE FISH

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What did the Hebrew people desire and ask of Gd to provide them? Not meat, but fish!

Raining fishes, all kinds, all colors, red and blue, orange and green, yellow and white. Scales or no scales. Fish without scales however are not Kosher fish. For a fish to be Kosher fish it must have scales and fins.

The porpoise fish is the most intelligent fish of all fishes, the most intelligent mammal. Zookeepers throwing them fish that they jump up and catch it in their mouths. The porpoise has no scales and therefore is not a Kosher fish, and should not be eaten. The Whale also is without scales and therefore is not Kosher and should not be eaten.

Tuna containing the metal mercury in their bodies, a chemical that causes its eater to develop Dementia. To eat Tuna only a few times a year. Not to overdo it!

To buy fillets or pieces, pieces costing less in stores. Fillets costing more, you pay for the glory.

How to catch fish? The homeless being great fishermen, lines thrown off piers, worms on the end, waiting with this bait for a tug, bait that looks like flies. 

One fish two fish red fish blue fish. Taught by Dr. Seuss as kids how to survive, to have enough foods, trips to forests to eat Plantain and Dandelion weeds, bitter, to marinate it in vinegar overnight. Roasted potatoes in a bon fire, the potatoes dug and buried under the fire to reach the hottest of coals. Wrapped in tin foil.

A decorated fish on the dining table at a Bar Mitzvah. Cucumber slices pierced with toothpicks to lay over the fish's skin, scales removed. Skin of cucumbers also removed, green, pealed.

Stuffed White Fish, scarce, not in most stores, the best of fish, not fishy tasting, not bitter, but instead pure in its whiteness, filled with breaded stuffing. Not to eat rare fish, Sushi not for she or he. Eels? No thank you. Shellfish? Not Kosher. Low in vitamin calcium? Do not take oyster shell calcium supplements, too a non-Kosher food. The oyster is a shellfish! Not to take Glucosamine for sore stiff knee joints. It is made from sharks, another non-Kosher fish! No scales.

To eat of the peaceful animals. How to become peaceful? Not to trim your toenails on the same day you trim your fingernails. Trim your toenails on Thursdays and your fingernails on Fridays. To cut them to not feel warlike, to do this just before Shabbat. To on Shabbat feel peaceful, with no fingernail weapons. No Sharks, no Catfish. No Swordfish. Vegan? Sounds good to me. No murdering of any animal, no animal slaughtered. Vegan is Kosher.

Fish for dinner? My Dad got nightmares when he would eat fish on Fridays. I developed an allergy to shellfish when I started to study Torah. Studied children's books like "Green Eggs and Ham". To only eat eggs that are not fertile. Fertile eggs from a chicken are not Kosher. How to tell a fertile egg from a non-fertile egg? A fertile egg has a spot of blood on the outside of the yolk.

Yes, fish, like gefilte fish and lox with bagels are approved fish. They are clean fish, good fish, holy fish. When fish are inspected by Rabbis, they are truly wonderful treats to fill you up! One fish two fish, crimson fish purple fish! Fish with pink polka dots!

Going fishing? Yep! To the Great Lake Michigan. To be a great person because you eat great foods! Fish is for everyone! You are what you eat.

Monday, February 19, 2018

THE BLESSING OF OCEANOGRAPHY

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Oceanography. What is the spiritual aspect of this science, is there a way to look at it to appreciate the Greatness of the Blue Oceans, to fear the Dangers of Ocean Hurricanes as we fear the Greatness of Gd, the Lingering Damaging Floods of Destroying Ocean Tsunamis? 

To appreciate a springtime rainstorm, to see a bolt of lightening to turn it into a musical concert light show? To lay back on green turf on a blanket at an outside musical concert park and beat your feet to the drums you hear. Tap your fingers on your hands like as upon a sweet soprano flute. A piccolo? A Kosher pickle. Not to listen to just bass without Ein Sof as your source of sweetness, sweetness flying high as far as the sound of music can travel.

Oceans. California. The Pacific Ocean. The largest Ocean in the world! 

Redwoods growing. Birds' nests. Ocean birds. 

The tide coming in and going out. Splashing sensations on one's feet. Bare foot in the hot California beach sands. Venus Beach. A home for the homeless to travel. Beaches to welcome the homeless with an outside home. A tent here and a tent there. Every day warm. Every night cool but not cold. 

Oranges. Sweet sugary fructose fruit growing on trees. Pluck them off and eat free food growing on delicious wooden trees. Migrant workers well fed as they eat their own produce. A snack here and a snack there. Not to be hungry. Water coming in from waterfalls. Ocean pure natural waters. To take a Jewish mikvah in the Ocean water. Changing small letters into capital letters: ocean to OCEAN. From small to big. From dirty to clean.

The question is: Can we shun an ocean? An OSHUN? 

We need water every few minutes. Praying for clean water. The "Blessing of Oceanography". Water to saturate the mouth and tongue. Ocean waters cleaned in heavy duty filtration systems. A clean cup, a clean hand, sipping with clean lips. Water chasing away body poisons, food poisoning leaving the body with a glass of pure water. Not processed by the liver, instead expelled out of the body from the kidneys.

A blessing? Can we involve Gd into our thankfulness for the love of these large Oceans? Gd was the Creator. Like a Mom creating children as her own, like a Father helping his wife to raise their children, kids whom the Dad created too.

Watch and learn from Gd's creations, learn from nature. To feel as happy yourself as a great ocean pounding like drums of Timpani on the shores with each wave, successively, generation to generation. Drum head to drum head.

A Mom to become a Grand-Mom. A Dad to become a Grand-Dad.

Happily hydrated like the Great Pacific Ocean, pacified, gladdened, because of the purity of its clean water.

Thursday, February 15, 2018

IMAGINARY DESCRIPTION OF THE MISHKAN

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What did the Mishkan look like? We have exact blueprints of it saved by historians and worded in The Chumash Torah as described by an Author of Torah. We see pictures of it reinvented so it takes a true form of life, not only two dimensional but full sized, a real life sculpture.

So how can we describe it, not as actually a piece of art, but how it makes us feel to envision it, and to want to touch it as we now touch the Torah Scrolls when they are in procession down the aisle of a Jewish Temple.

We kiss our books, our prayer books, Seders, and feel affection and love as we watch the Torah marched, danced down the pathway, fully garbed in Torah covers, dynamite awesome sewed tapestries, glitter and shine, sparkling, as gold. Gold as the metal that comprised the Mishkan.

Who carried it? The Levites. Grab as far as you can reach. Got it? Touch its surface, smooth, gently, furry, felt-like, embroidered, silk and wool, linen, blue, purple, crimson, white. Where is the white? It is in the rainbow, all colors together, merged, cause whiteness.

To savor a clean feeling in one's mouth as we sing as the Torah is walked down the aisle, no red carpet, wooden benches, a Book of Life, a Bemah. Torah Stand.

A congregant who is in need of peace to shake everyone's hand as they pass by and walk up and then down the Bemah, up and then down Jacob's Ladder. A stage? The curtain behind who stands the Wizard of Oz? To bow frequently, to throw kisses, to throw candy, to catch it and chew it to sweeten our dispositions as we politely, sweetly sing with the Cantor.

The Mishkan? What is behind the Ark? Can we open the Ark doors? Blindingly the shine of the Mishkan with cherubs, two, each on the top. A place to bake Challah breads, two loaves at a time. Golden rods to fit comfortably inside the hands of the working Levites, to get a grip.

Olive oil. Surging and splashing. Oil that heals. Oil that lights a candle, or nine on Chanukah, arms branches, the Family Tree. Twelve Tribes of Israel. To which do you belong?

David. The anointed ones. To hear David again and again each generation, to feel his poetry in your heart.

To use this poetry to keep a loving feeling, especially to love Gd with a mind, a brain, an intellect.

Monday, February 12, 2018

SEEKING GOD, FINDING HIM AND THEN FLOURISHING

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Seek and find? Look and see? Listen and hear? Sniff and smell? Touch and feel? Believe and acquiesce? Buy and have ownership?

What is it we are looking for? To turn wishes into prayers and prayers into blessings. To know the Hebrew language and have it become your mantra as a dance step or too as you simply sit and rest. To follow its regular beat. To make it your routine.

To smile at a friend and in this way observe the commandment of Pirkei Avot to greet everyone with a cheerful countenance. To as you walk on the street greet a stranger with this same smile and he then becomes not a stranger but a friend. To look the stranger on the street with direct eye contact as he begs you for money and be honest with him, yes you have money or no  you do not. To simply give a man a dollar that would be so appreciated. To instead give him a loaf of bread, if that is what you can give.

Where can I see God if I look for Him? In the gratitude reflected in this strangers eyes as he thanks you for the gift. Or to send someone an anonymous gift card in a greetings card to give someone money but not to identify yourself so he need not reciprocate. You get no reward, the gift is entirely his.

Colors? Do you know what color is which? Ever taken an Art Class? Look all around you inside or out, see all the colors of the rainbow without straining. To love the yellows as you turn them into gold and the grays as you turn them into silver. A door knob? Gold, silver, brass or nickel? Change in your hands: quarters, dimes, nickels, pennies. Colorful pieces of cut glass: gems, jewels. Handcrafting necklaces, bracelets, headbands. Creating something out of nothing. Appreciating the nothing that becomes something. Knowing it is God Who made the difference.

A marble countertop with swirls of silvers inside whites. The text of your favorite book, the binding strong and secure, a book as a companion. The Torah being this Book. Integrating the Commandments into your brain so it becomes second nature to follow them to a T. T is also for Teaching, to Teach Torah and feel comfort and achievement in teaching it. 

Finding God? Seek. Find. Flourish.     

Thursday, January 25, 2018

LAKE WATER AND DELICIOUS FISH

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Living in East Rogers Park with a Great Lake Michigan down the block, waves of water splashing over frozen sands, water with chips of ice, to dig a hole and insert a fishing line, to catch and eat cold water fish, to string a sharp pointy fishhook with nylon string, to pull up on the string to pop a Blue Gill into your mouth!

Sushi, raw fish, sweet and sour sauce, fish of huge amounts of Omega 3. Which was it meat or fish that was the attraction to the Israelites when they traveled the desert for 40 years? It was fish, not livestock meat that they desired. Fish is Kosher if it has scales and gills. Catfish and Swordfish are not Kosher fishes. Tuna and smoked salmon lox are Jewish traditional foods.

Ice skating on a Great Lake if it is frozen cold frigid solid ice. Sidewalks with a layer of ice for kids to ice skate upon. sliding all in fun.

On the rocks? Can a rock be your friend? A pet rock? On the rocks which are ice cubes in water, a drink over the bar counter, colored blue with a bright blue flame when lighted with a match. Spilled on the counter with a trail of gray smoke and blue fire, to snuff out in a hurry.

Not ever to go hungry, to carry a fishing pole with you and your pet dog, to live as a wanderer wandering along the water shores, always with enough water, always hydrated, always in abundance of fish.

Baked fish with a breaded topping for lunch. Fish is not the enemy, but what is the enemy if fish is not? Secreting thick Tartar Sauce over the pure white breaded fish, a bit of tanginess.

Is meat the enemy? Which meat and why? Do we become vicious predators with teeth as sharp as those of an alligator's when we tear our teeth into this reptile to eat it? Do we become this reptile as ingesting his soul as we eat him? Or, if meat is not the enemy is sugar the enemy instead?

Diabetes overhanging your head as a hang man's noose. Sugars raise your body sugar level dangerously and make the illness of Diabetes eminent. 

What types of sugars are there? Cane sugar is one we know about, and there are many non-sugar sweeteners as well on the market. Pink, yellow, blue packets, all chemicals that give your mouth a sweet taste. But these chemicals are just that, chemicals. Not good for you.

To have a mentor in my Mother who does not sweeten her drinks with sugar cane or chemicals either. To sip the clean purity of mother's milk each time we put a cup of tea to our lips, not sugared, instead pure and distinctive, a taste of loving-kindness.

It is okay to say no. Say no to sugar. What you can say if not "no"? We can say "No, thank you".

Wednesday, January 17, 2018

MY BEACH DOWN THE BLOCK

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Wanting and wading, waiting, balancing as a gymnast on a pier, jutting narrowly, made of stone crusted cement, changing higher waves into smaller weaker waves, water movements controlled, waiting whetting for greater heights, dangling toes, fingertips, ice capped frozen sands of white snowy giggling glaciers, holes cut into Titanic ships passing by, a stream a scene of Sirens, hair drawn up and flowing down like serpents, a summer spent at a tanning salon, a winter spent below ground.

Queen Persephone, not Esther, with her husband Hades below the Earth, rising as a fiery vicious volcano spitting lava each Spring. To become a Phoenix seagull bird in fierce flight, flying in fright, feathery, summer after summer after summer, generation after generation after generation.

But do you know how to cook?? Well, now, would I trade my life as Phoenix to be a personal chef? How high can it take me? Hades did not take her up, he took her down. Down into the depths of Hell, an imprisonment enslaved as "domestic housewife". To spend the rest of my life in a kitchen? No thanks, I pass. 

The insects of locusts on my beach down the block. Fed all of Egypt, one of the Ten Plagues. Do you know how to cook locusts? They are Kosher foods, you know. The Egyptians ate them too! Curled arms on boiled insect bodies, small corpses mixed together with fried rice. How would I know? 

First born, killed? The end of the Plagues. Let My People Go is the password. How would I know? All you need is the Internet. Ask A Rabbi. How would he know?

If you ask questions you are admitting ignorance. But even though, there were four children and they each asked one of four questions. The fifth child? Why did he not want to know? Was he invited? Why not?

Answers to questions, chefs that do not cook, restaurants inside homes. Locusts as pets not pests. Bowlfuls of jelly-like goldfish, swimming around and around, dizzy, watching them swim, not to be fished out as dinner, instead as supper, yes, super supper, Cod for everyone. Omega 3. 

Cod fish at the BBQ down the block at my Beach. Slurping it up and sliding it down slippery in your throat, an esophagus filled with enough food no famine, dreams of pyramids, storehouses of fish for all. 

All at my village neighborhood Beach, all just a few steps down the block.   
 

Wednesday, January 10, 2018

STUDY OF POLAR BEARS FOR CURE FOR INSOMNIA


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An afternoon nap, every afternoon, hiding in caves, bears taking a snooze hiding eyes from brightness with gigantic paws, crawling into their caves, dens, children cubs warming up in their mother's fur, not to end up as a fur coat, saved by those who care about the extinction of animals, animals who love humans, humans who love animals.  

To learn from the bear families, to be like them, to catch sleep during the day, to then be wide open-eyed to hunt your supper. Lake Trout swapped with fingernails as sharp as knives. 

What is the benefit of an afternoon nap? I never knew, but my grandma took them and so does my mother, it separates the morning from the afternoon, takes you from one gracefully into the other. After eating lunch, to healthfully digest your lunch, stomach churning while the muscles in your body are still and restful. 

Are you at work, have a full time job? Have a lunch break? Try to take one half hour to take a snooze. Try to fall asleep in a chair. Eyes closed, deeply in meditation and then wake up and go back to work. 

An afternoon nap! Sounds like a great idea. Yes, there were caves with cavemen who also took afternoon naps. Learn from nature, do as the animals do. Build a nest and coat it in the inside with feathers for warmth, for softness, buy a goose-down filled blanket and pull it up to your chin, head softly nestled into your pillow, to sleep.

Why do we want to sleep? What is the importance of sleep? The Psalms written by King David tell us "God visits His beloved in their sleep". 

Sunday, December 31, 2017

A SOOTHING CURING SPRAY OF CLEAR BLUE WATER AS HEALER

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How to create your own physical therapy, water flowing shooting like white rapids upon a muscle sore and stiff, to walk into a dance as the water calms the sore muscle and slowly recedes the pain and stiffness.

What be it? Arthritis? Bursitis? Just turned in bed the wrong way? Walked too far? Exercised too much?

What is the cure? More exercise or to rest and not move the muscle instead?

To not concentrate on the pain, instead to concentrate of the relief of pain.

Think of a masseuse's strong rubbing fingers and hands, spraying warm water upon the soreness and causing a soothing feeling which turns a grimace into a smile of happiness, better to be able to greet all who you meet, to greet family as well as friends.

To buy a Jacuzzi to build in your upstairs bathroom, a large warm deep tub, a bon fire under a glistening copper bathtub, heating up swirling waters, shooting pummeling waterfall sprays, a toy water squirt gun targeting your right hip, pain going away, disappearing, feeling easiness after suffering.

Water as a friend, a cleanser and water as a healer. Water to be there as a creation of Adonai, water in lightness or water in darkness, water by candlelight, one or two candles, water that reflects the moon or/and sun, water that is the answer.

The science of Oceanography as you dip your bare foot into water, to love water, to love God Who created water and to thank Him and praise Him because He did it just for you!

To love Him back with all your heart!