BARMITZVAH!

Ok! I am back.....well I've been back for a week but I've been so busy...also spending lots of time with the girls after I left them for a week!
My trip was wonderful!!!! I spen 4 days with my mom....basically shopping all day....and on the last day we went to her friends grandson 'BARMITZVAH'...wich is the reason why this whole trip started!!! and that was one of the most amazing experiences in my life!!!!!!!! I LOVED THE BARMITZVAH!!!!!!!!!!! I have always loved the jewish culture but now I love it even more!!!! If my familiy was arab I am sure I would CONVERT!!!! (...I seriously believe that I was a jewish woman in the holocaust in one of my past lives.....sorry guys.....but I DO BELIEVE IN REINCARNATION......Sorry.....)..
Ok...coming back to 'this' lifetime.....the event was so inspired and it tought me SO much on how to raise my kids that at the end I went to talk to the RABI and I have to mention it SHE was a woman Rabi!!! The sinagogue is a very reformed sinagogue and the Barmizvah was VERY diferent from the traditional ones.....at least that is what she said at the begining.
I was SO moved that she gave a copy of their service books wich have totaly inspired me to start painting a new series of paintings....one page reads like this:

' Our contract was for nurturing, and we exploited.
Our covenant was with simplicity, and we complicated.
Our actions betray our tue longings.
Not for peace do we labor, but for power.
Not for compasion, but for control.
Not for self, but for selfishness.
Each of us comes into the world with a task all our own,
yet so much of our time is spent imitating others.
Remind us of our uniqueness, chanllenge us with the pash
that only our feet can follow.
Then shall we renew our covenant
and take up the task of redeeming the world.

...and after all that spirituality.....and the amazing party afterwards....we went back to more shopping!
But the message was there...
I also saw my good friend Guillermo and we went to CAlvary on Sunday.....we also went to his nutritionist!!! He's lost 17 pounds in a month!!! So I couldn't pass on that one...Needless to say I was back on the plane carrying all kinds of giant bottles with all kinds of protein shakes in them!!!!!!!! And now my mood is horrible...this diet really sucks....IT IS SOOO HARD.....but it reallyl works! I think I've lost 3 pounds in 4 days! Amazing! But that's another blog entry...