KEIKO KOMA net

12  Dec 2008

Messages of Mother Earth

Tomorrow we will hold my poetic concert in Tyre. Our Iranian staffer came all the way from Teheran and has been in charge of the Arabic subtitling of my poems. Many negative incidents happened before and after arriving here so we decided not to hold the Idaki Shin solo concert that was initially planned to take place on the 5th December in Tyre. Prof, Ghazi told us that the situation in Lebanon was not yet stable. So this time I felt satisfied by holding my Mind-scape exhibition and four concerts. Mr. Idaki Shin said my exhibition was as if we had created a new sacred place. I felt vividly that the land of Lebanon was nursed and calmed down by the powerful and pure light radiating from the exhibition space. In response to our activities the situation of Lebanon is indeed positively changing every day.   
By the way the person who arranged the meeting with Mr. Berry for us originated from Bint-Jibeil. He has attended two of our concerts and told us that the city center was completely destroyed by the Israeli army’s bombing two years ago and numerous lives were lost. I was told that everybody was looking forwards to our concert that would take place inside a school as there was no music hall. According to information from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, both Tyre and Bint-Jibeil were considered dangerous places and one is recommended not to visit them. So on arriving in Lebanon I called the Japanese Embassy and reported our plan. Everybody advised us to be fully alert. I woke up every day feeling grateful to be alive. Though the noises in the streets sounded the same as before I could hear an internal prayer offered by the land of Lebanon. I realized that great being above human kind has been exercising its power over our activities and I shed tears out of deep gratitude.