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Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Jupiter Conjunct Uranus in Aries: the Fourth Reich is Still Vicious and the New Agers are Still Dumbasses. More Change Required.
We've got a bunch of possibly inhuman, definitely inhumane sociopaths trying to start another World War. (Uranus in Aries square Pluto in Capricorn)
The same bunch of sociopaths has now poisoned the entire Gulf of Mexico and is possibly pushing for full-on End Times scenarios by bringing all the world's oceans into the mix. (Chiron in Pisces)
And then we've got the New Agers and the New Age/One World Religion-influenced energetically dry humping this aspect for all its worth, waxing poetic about the mind-blowing consciousness shifts and the new day and the ascension to wherever in Christ it is they think they're going. They haven't learned much from the 1960s - the last time Saturn and Uranus opposed. Same escapist fantasies playing out in just slightly different ways. The war in Afghanistan just usurped Vietnam as the longest-running U.S. war...
This doesn't look all that much like a new day to me. It looks very similar to the last time Uranus rolled around the zodiac to Aries. That was April 1927 to March 1935, coinciding with the birth and rise of the Third Reich, the Aryan Nation and all that fun stuff. And let's recall that Hitler was a big fan of Helena Blavatsky, founder of modern-day New Age, and kept a copy of her book The Secret Doctrine at his bedside. New Age spiritual hierarchy and political hierarchy go hand-in-hand. It's fascism - whether political or spiritual.
The war-and-hatred-mongers of the "Holy" Roman Empire (First Reich) morphed into the World War I German state (Second Reich), the Nazis (Third Reich) and now the NWO-ers (Fourth Reich), moving through time and space in lock-step with hideous organization...
We've got reports out now that the Bush Administration conducted illegal and unethical human experimentation and research on detainees in CIA custody - you know, those people in prolonged detention, now being reinforced by Obama, who may not have even been charged with a crime. I wrote on this blog a while back that we weren't far off Nazi scientific experiments on captive human beings. So I was wrong. We're there.
It has also just been reported that Obama has secretly deployed special forces to 75 countries around the world. This is while he was ordering SWAT teams sent to every offshore oil drilling platform in the Gulf, where many different countries are drilling, including China, as I was told by my Chinese English conversation partner. I'm not thinking that's going to go over so well.
We've also got the stage set for more hostility and ramping up toward Iran, ostensibly over their nuclear facilities, at the G8/G20 Summits coming up June 25-27 in Ontario, Canada.
Overt and strategic acts of aggression on the world stage. Uranus in Aries square Pluto in Capricorn.
Distasteful, distasteful.
So far, it looks to me like the same tired and cliched bunch of crap we've been dealing with all Piscean era and beyond. Uranus and Jupiter both retrograde back into late Pisces within three months.
There are inspiring signs of life, don't get me wrong. We're making huge progress, and the supposed power held by these forces is much less than the power we hold - but that doesn't help the people, animals and plantlife being hurt and killed in their wake. That is most certainly not illusionary.
I have to say, the lack of holistic spiritual insight and understanding coming from the scientific community (and from the pseudo-spiritual community) these days leaves me grimacing, but if there is one thing Uranus is known for, it's lightning fast change. So fingers crossed that the master Piscean lessons will gain traction just in time. We keep reinforcing them in hopes of that...
But of course, most people let up and look away at exactly the wrong times. Saturn in Virgo is grinding out the details we need to pay attention to. It's demanding correction from us. And instead, you have people floating off into their fuzzy wuzzy crown chakra pink clouds or burying their heads in distraction. Tsk, tsk, says Saturn in late Virgo. Get it together.
Speaking of, I've noticed the New Age beast morphing a little lately with the Aries influence. This morphing is coming about also due to Saturn in Virgo - it only took the New Agers two-and-a-half years to finally figure Virgo out and work it into their schtick.
So the big new trend is "edgy" New Age. "I'm an individualistic rebel" New Age. The new fad: setting yourself up as non-New Age, which is a very common practise - I've written about that before - but specifically as some sort of renegade or edgy truth-teller type who's on the outs with the mainstream New Agers. These people have twigged to the fact that the "love and light, bliss bunny" schpiel is a little played (a lot played). They've figured out that that's not going to do it for anyone with even an ounce of cool, sociological awareness or critical thinking skills, so they're starting to mock that paradigm a little as "soft" - to set themselves up outside it.
They also bring "the shadow" in, to the point that this is a current NA key term. Listen for it. As with everything New Age, they'll glom onto whatever they can to further their underlying agenda and ideology, including the darker, more taboo energies of the zodiac like Pluto, Black Moon Lilith, Eros, Eris, whatever. Of course, it's all superficial, and anyone with keen discernment can pick this out.
When you cut right through all the pseudo-alternative bullshit, it's the same ideology, the same spiritual materialism. They're snapped into the same system of spiritual hierarchy where they're higher up on the manufactured ladder of "superiour spiritual consciousness" and they have to save the poor, ignorant masses by imparting their guru-inspired brilliance. They spout the same idioms - they just sneak them in with a little more panache than your stereotypical traditional New Ager. Like Obama, they've figured out how to manipulate with the egalitarian Aquarian "be your own leader" language.
I've got a couple people who try to post comments on my site who do this. (REJECT!) They try to cosy up to me and mirror the things I'm saying, but then they try to sneak in their little grain of New Age poison.
The most recent one being that I've "given consent" for being poisoned by Cipro and basically that I should just shut my mouth and bliss out about it all.
You know why people have to go through shit like this? Because dumb fucks like you have spent your entire lives abnegating responsibility, keeping your heads buried in the powdery fine Arizona desert sand, blessed by Tibetan monks and pissed on by sacred camels that shit precious gemstones.
You know why life is so hard or so intense for the people who actually care about what happens on this planet and live accordingly? Because you don't. You talk and say nothing. You walk all around the issues that actually matter. You pass the buck. And the buck stops with the people who are sterling-charactered enough that they'll dig in and get the job done, even when you won't look at it.
So don't give me all that "spiritually superiour to the common person" horseshit. Most of them are way up on you without even trying. And most people are faced with rock-and-a-hard-place decisions due to collective circumstances on this planet, so spare me all that free will junk, too.
My critiques here may seem a little acerbic to people who don't work with the energies I do, but believe me - me mouthing off about this, anyone mouthing off about this, is necessary and will stay necessary for the next decade at least.
Uranus in Aries means we all have to be exactly who we are, exerting our identities and shooting from the hip whenever necessary to forge ahead into a real Aquarian paradigm. If we don't break out of the programmed identities and desires, we don't get to any real freedom or peace. We slide backward into more of the same, and I don't have the energy for that game anymore. A lot of us don't.
When we look at the situation with Uranus in Aries this time around, it's different from last time in that the Second World War came after the last Uranus transit of Aries, during Uranus in Taurus.
This time, the warmongers are trying to trigger a war right out of the gate - before we've even fully cleared Pisces. That's interesting. And it seems a little foolhardy and slapdash to me. They've really got to have every last detail, every bit of luck on their side to get this horror show off the ground. Saturn in Virgo doesn't like a rush. It has to do everything just so. And I'm not sure every last i has been dotted and every last t has been crossed.
The pressure from the square to Pluto in Capricorn combined with the timing of the astrological Aquarian era has them rushing, slapping things together that need time to gel and fuse.
So we'll see how this all shakes down.
What we can do is keep going, keep the faith, keep digging, stay aware, keep staring them down. We can keep driving for the alternative with as much vigour as we can muster.
We can stay with God, the loving source, the creator, spirit, the universe, your moral compass, whatever you call it - that's what we can do. And that's enough.
21 comments:
- Theodore White said...
Spot on post and very good observations Willow. Kudos on another fine piece.
- June 9, 2010 at 5:11 AM
- Willow said...
Thanks very much, Theodore! I appreciate you taking the time to comment.
- June 9, 2010 at 6:19 AM
- shannon said...
this piece is really perfect. i am right there with you
in your outrage and sense of how to make peace with all that will come with this storm forming.
i so appreciate you.
thank you.
- June 9, 2010 at 6:26 AM
- Willow said...
Aww, thanks, shannon! :-)
- June 9, 2010 at 6:37 AM
- Anonymous said...
I LOVED THIS. This is the best piece of astro related anything I have read, ever. BRILLIANT asskicking & timely lecture to the excuse makers. I laughed so hard I cried, and I'm feeling it all. Here's to mouthing off constructively then walking your damn talk. Thank you.
- June 9, 2010 at 8:06 AM
- Willow said...
Thank-you for that wicked-ass comment! That makes all the throw-downs I've had with the New Agers over the years so very worth it.
- June 9, 2010 at 8:39 AM
- sadgeuk1 said...
LOL! I love the title - and I'm with you on several points. :)
- June 9, 2010 at 9:21 AM
- Donna L. Faber said...
Hi ... I ended up here after reading Robert Phoenix' blogpost. Would you mind elaborating more on who the Atlanteans and Lemurians are? I mean, I get the historical reference and everything, but where do you see them in this timeline? Tx. D~
- June 9, 2010 at 11:45 AM
- LittleOrphanAmmo said...
OMG...this was the best fucking thing I've read in months! I just really respect someone who works with the energies you do confronting and calling bullshit on the insane fakery going on within its ranks.
OOooh i luff you.
- June 9, 2010 at 12:25 PM
- Willow said...
Yay! I luff you, also, kiki! Thanks for the comment.
- June 9, 2010 at 12:29 PM
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- Anonymous said...
thanks for this .. first time i'm seeing your work, and loving it. i guess im more lumerin too.. i am offended though that you call the demonic psychos christians, they have nothing to do with jesus christ or christianity EXCEPT tomake sure his agenda, (love one another and allgod makes), is thwarted. please refer to them as hypocrites (jesus disliked them most y'know), or frauds, or imposters or at least faux christians. where on earth do you think may be a safe place to be during the cardinal square..surely not usa or britain, how about other euro nations.. have you looked at world charts? i understand norway is the only country not allowing chem trails? what about prague czech republic, supposedly protected by a magic star drawn by an ancient jesuit preist? i left demonic usa years ago, for england which is only a hair better, but am willing to move on. advice?
- June 10, 2010 at 4:00 AM
- Willow said...
Oh, yes, agreed 100%. They're not Christ-like at all. Total misnomer.
I don't actually do world charts, Anon. Sorry.
But as far as a safe place during the cardinal squares - I think a lot of people are looking for that, but this is global, so it's hard to say. I think places where people are living simply, below the radar might be best. But just keeping your own energy there will help. Staying conscious of your relationship with God/creator/spirit, listening to your guidance, following your instincts. I think it's more an energetic place that we need to be this summer than a physical location, for the most part.
Do I think we can hide anywhere from what's going on? Not really.
- June 10, 2010 at 6:37 AM
- Anonymous said...
So when we were in Hawaii, buying crystals, the owner of the shop took one look at us and said, "You're a Lemurian and you're (dear husband) an Atlantean" - to which I replied, "All these years it's been a mixed marriage! Who knew!"
Have a fab day Willow, cheers, Janet
- June 10, 2010 at 9:35 AM
- Willow said...
Thanks for working that mix out for all of us, Janet and Janet's hubby! :-)
- June 10, 2010 at 9:44 AM
- Anonymous said...
Willow to the World !
- June 10, 2010 at 5:20 PM
- Donna L. Faber said...
Well thanks so much for the detailed response on that Atlantean/Lemurian thing. I totally get it, and I totally see it ... all the time. Not sure where I fall on the spectrum, but I'm sure it's in there somewhere. I also would agree with how you feel about the New Age movement. I've had HUGE disagreements over that superiority thing you described, been beaten over the head with a dharma stick, and lost friends over it. Some folks are simply not content to let others be in their own place, and I can't be anywhere else.
So, I'm digging both you and the Phoenix, and enjoy your view of the state of our world.
Take care,
- June 10, 2010 at 7:33 PM
- Anonymous said...
I love your honesty and wit.
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Monday, December 14, 2009
felt and floss
Ahhhhh...received my fresh infusion of lovely wool-blend felt from Prairie Point Junction. They have a wide color range and great customer service. They offer their felt in these 12 in. x 18 in. pieces for $1.65 a sheet! And no, this is not a paid endorsement. Ha. I wish.
I really wish I could show you some felt stuff I've been making. I'll have to wait until after the gift giving is done.
And I finally got around to doing something I've always meant to do. Winding all my embroidery floss onto these little cardboard bobbins. Man. It only took forever. Oh, the snarls and the knots and the compressing of lips and rolling of eyes to the ceiling and the wishing fervently I was on the last stinkin' skein. Glad that's over. Now I need a little plastic bin to keep them all organized by color instead of the gallon plastic baggie I am currently using.
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Now that you are all done winding the floss on the cardboards, grin, the easy way to do it is leave the wraps on the floss and pull out several lengths, wrap it on the card, then pull out several more lengths, then wrap till you are done, saves a lot of wear and tear on your hair, your fingernails and your temper, grin. Oh yes, I have 7 large boxes full of my floss, plus 2 small ones with the varigated floss. I love those boxes and they aren't that expensive. BarbMReplyDelete
Hehe, I know exactly what you mean about the gallon plastic baggie! I get a little embarrassed every time I remember that I'm a sewer yet carry my embroidery around in my purse in a gallon plastic baggie. It's a little sad, but I guess that's what happens when you never make anything for yourself but only for others. I'm ashamed ;)ReplyDelete
Thanks for the tip on the felt. :)ReplyDelete
I, too, just finished winding all my thread mess. It's a chore, for sure, but I'm SO glad I finally got around to doing it. With that being said, I still don't have a container for it. One thing at a time, I guess!
I am following the link to the felted wool shop RIGHT NOW! Thanks for sharing. PS: I've made 1 Mikey and 2 Katys so far...4 more are cut out...SO ADORABLE!ReplyDelete
I am dying over here looking at all that felt! I'm going to have to check out that shop...felt is so lovely.ReplyDelete
wow, can't wait to see what you make with all that felt!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 14, 2009 at 12:59 PM
I think I have felt envy. Looking forward to seeing what you've been making....ReplyDelete
Can't wait to see what you've been making. You always do such a fantastic job!ReplyDelete
Last year I went through that never ending winding process too but I'm so glad I did. I think it was from that point that I started using all my stash, because it's more comfortable and you can really see what you have. Organizing them by colour inside the boxes is fun to do. For me the difficult thing is to leave them in the same place after I use them... :-)ReplyDelete
When the frustrations sets in, that's when you start to employ the child labor. They love to get paid by the cookie! ;)ReplyDelete
Everybody, thanks for the sweet comments, I can't wait to show you too!ReplyDelete
Barbara, that is a great winding tip. And would work like a charm if yours truly hadn't already hopelessly tangled up all my skeins using them as I go in a higgledy piggledly fashion. ahem.
Kaye, I know right? the down side to having the organizer for the floss is the fact that a gallon bag is just so much easier to pack.
Kir, my aren't we a busy bee? wow.
Jessica, I need your way of thinking. That never even crossed my mind, dang it!
It must just be me but I like winding new floss on new bobbins - I like doing it really slowly & carefully & neatly. Although I only do 3 at a time or my thumbs get sore. I use the plastic boxes, and keep them on the floor near my couch - such fun when I kick them over & thread goes everywhere. I tried the DMC plastic holders that keep thread in it's wrapper but they were a nightmare and would never sit in the folders.ReplyDelete
I love those bobbins! Where did you buy them?ReplyDelete
Oooooohhhh. I just got the Prairie Point Junction Dream Bundle. Yum-Yum!ReplyDelete
Helen, there must be a name for your condition. :-) Although I can't really comment because you've seen my OCD side. I have to admit, after the winding was done and I had this neat pile of floss on bobbins, it made me very happy.ReplyDelete
Front Porch Quilts, those bobbins were purchased from Hancocks Fabric, but I am assuming you can find the same thing at most craft and fabric stores, near the floss. Sure beats making your own, which I did before my sister said, "hey, you can buy those." duh.
Kristy Carter: jealous!
This post reminds me of that old Popsicle commercial. "The colors, Duke, the colors!"ReplyDelete
The first thing I do when I buy new floss is wind it up on a bobbin. I find it really, really relaxing. I found my plastic container at the dollar store ... for a dollar. Since I do cross-stitching and have to follow charts, I organize by number. Then again, I also organize my books, movies, and cereals alphabetically.
Larissa- I am swooning over that felt. Thanks for the link!ReplyDelete
Congrats on all that winding. What an accomplishment.
- AnonymousDecember 18, 2009 at 9:55 PM
Oh, I have some of this felt too, its wonderful. I just made a little craft out of it :)ReplyDelete
I was so thrilled when I finished winding my floss. I bought a case similar to this to store it in at JoAnns: http://www.joann.com/joann/catalog/productdetail.jsp?CATID=cat3015&PRODID=prd57108ReplyDelete
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- Tracey Mershon, President of the Mizzou Alumni Association
- Deborah S. Noble-Triplett, Assistant Vice President, UM System
- James Pace, Alumnus, Retired CEO of ROM Corporation
- Cheryl B. Schrader, Chancellor, Missouri S&T
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- Jinglu Tan, Director, Division of Food Systems and Bioengineering; Professor and Chair, Biological Engineering, College of Engineering
- Mitch Wasden, Chief Executive and Operating Officer, University of Missouri Healthcare
- William Wiebold, Professor of Plant Sciences, Division of Plant Sciences, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, MU Faculty Council
- Jacob 'Jake' Wright, President, Graduate Professional Council, Doctoral Student: Philosophy
The appointment of the search committee is the second major milestone passed this week in the search for a new MU chancellor. Throughout the week, President Wolfe has led the first public forums on the search, which offered the opportunity to members of the general public and other interested stakeholders to provide their input regarding the qualities they want to see in the next MU chancellor. The forums, held at Jesse Hall and Memorial Union on the MU campus, were in addition to other meetings the president has held this week with faculty and staff from MU Extension, alumni, academic leaders and prominent supporters of the university.
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The Creation Of The Universe
The Miracle in the Seed
Section 2: Structure and Formation of a Seed
Don't they see how We drive water to barren land and bring forth crops by it which their livestock and they themselves both eat? So will they not see? (Qur'an, 32:27)
All the different plants – from trees that are meters in height, to the flowers whose fragrance you delight in and the vegetables and fruit you eat – all of them began as seeds. But what stages have these seeds undergone in their formation?
In the development of the seed, the first stage is the transport of the pollen, or male reproductive cells, of flower-bearing plants. Pollen is transported by the wind, insects, animals or some other means to flowers' reproductive organs.
Right in the center of a flower is one or a cluster of female organs, called the carpel. Each carpel consists of a tip called a stigma, carried on a stalk called a style. At its base is a swollen ovary containing the ovules that will develop into seeds.
Pollen from the male organs is deposited on the stigma, which is coated in a sticky substance, and produces a pollen tube that reaches down the style to the ovary. This sticky surface has the very important function, for if the pollen does not reach the ovary, it cannot fertilize the ovules. The sticky surface of the stigma catches pollen and prevents it from being dispersed and wasted.
Once the grain of pollen, or male reproductive cell, lands on the stigma of a flower from the same species, the pollen produces a tube like a fine root growing down the neck of the style to the ovary. Each of the mature pollen grains contains two sperm cells. The pollen tube transports the sperm to the ovule. One sperm cell fertilizes the egg in the embryo sac of the ovule, resulting in the development of a seed. The other sperm cell unites with two cells in the embryo sac, creating the tissue that surrounds the embryo and provides nourishment for it. Shortly after this process, called fertilization, a seed is produced.
Every seed contains a plant embryo and a store of nutrients. In this embryo is contained all the information relating to the future plant, as we explained at the start. That is to say, the embryo contains a small copy of the plant; and the store of nutrients enables this embryo to grow until the plant can produce its nourishment.
Characteristics of the Nutrient Reserve in Seeds
It is of great importance for the seed to contain a reserve of nutrients for the embryo, since at this early stage, a plant has as yet no leaves for photosynthesis and no roots to draw nutrients from the soil. Until it emerges as a seedling, it must use whatever nutrients already contained within it to complete its development.
At this point we encounter the miraculous detail that stored in every seed is just the right amount of nutrient to satisfy its needs. The nutrient content of seeds that must remain dormant for a long time before germinating (for example, the coconut) and of seeds that germinate soon after coming into contact with water (such as melon and watermelon) is regulated in different amounts. What's more, the kind of nutrients stored – principally starch and storage proteins, and sometimes additionally sugar and fat – depends on the variety of the plant. Of these, starch is the most essential, as it is the main source of energy for the embryo. Storage proteins, on the other hand, will provide the amino acids the embryo requires to build other proteins important for its growth.3
Who regulates the amount and kind of nutrients? It cannot be the seed, because this calibration is done before the seed is formed. Then does the parent plant regulate the amount of nutrients, by determining the seed's stages of development and the length of time before it germinates? To admit such a possibility would mean a series of unreasonable events that are hard to believe, such as the plant having intelligence and consciousness, foresight and knowledge of events taking place beyond its own sphere. No logical, intelligent person can believe such a thing.
The evident truth is that the One Who stores in the seed of every plant exactly the right amount of nutrients it requires, the Creator of all plants and their systems and stages of fertilization is God.
The Importance of the Nutrients in Seeds
After fertilization while the seed is forming, sugar and fat are stored in the seed together with starch and storage proteins, depending on the plant species. Starch provides the seed with its main energy supply. The storage proteins will produce the amino acids the embryo needs to build other proteins that are important for the plant. But for the embryo to absorb and transport the proteins and starch, which are largely insoluble in water, they must be broken down chemically into small water-soluble units,4 and as you will see later in the book, the seed is created with a system to solve this problem.
The existence of a store of nutrients is important not only for plants, which need it for their seeds to develop, but also for humans and animals. Nutrients in seeds like wheat, corn, rice, barley, rye, oats, millet, buckwheat, legumes (peas, beans, soybeans, black-eyed peas, peanuts) and nuts with shells (such as Brazil nuts, coconuts, walnuts, almonds) are important for both humans and animals.
Usually, seeds contain comparatively less sugar than the other substances, though sweet corn, chestnuts, almonds, pistachios and peas store a relatively high proportion of sugar.
The amount of fat in oily seeds increases rapidly as the seeds ripen. Some of the most important oils are obtained from flax, tung, cotton, soybean, olive, peanut, castor bean, coconut, sesame and oil palm. As well as being used in food, these oils are used in making paints and varnishes, linoleum, printers ink, soap, artificial leather, and insulating materials.5
As these examples show, seeds have direct or indirect connections with people's lives and health, including dietary fibers, spices, beverages, edible and industrial oils, vitamins and medicaments.
The Minerals and Vitamins in Seeds
The majority of dry seeds are extremely high in nutritional value. For example, sesame, and sunflower seeds contain a higher proportion of protein than grains. Pumpkin seeds contain more than 30% protein. More than half of the weight of these seeds, which are high in vitamin E, is fat. More than 80% of these fats are polyunsaturated fats – the kind that prevent hardening of our arteries, essential fatty acids, and the oil-soluble vitamins A, D and E. Vitamin B is also found in seeds, but the quantity varies according to the species.6
In addition, seeds are rich in minerals, containing a lot of iron and zinc. The amount of magnesium is good, particularly in pumpkin seeds. Many seeds are a source of copper. Seeds also have fairly high levels of calcium, potassium and phosphorus, and a small amount of sodium; and the majority of seeds contain iodine.
Pumpkin seeds have a high concentration of zinc, and for this reason are used in the treatment of various illnesses. In addition, they're quite rich in iron, calcium and phosphorus, as well as containing vitamin E and essential fatty acids. They also contain a combination of B vitamins, particularly niacin.
Sesame seeds are probably the most widely used seeds in the world. They are rich in oil, over 55%. They are about 20% protein, and contain some of the A and E vitamins, as well as most of the B vitamins apart from B12 and folic acid. As is the case with most seeds, sesame seeds have a high mineral content, with large quantities of calcium, copper, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, zinc and iron. They're a wonderful source of calcium. Whether due to the vitamin E they contain or other factors, sesame seeds also have a mild antioxidant effect.7
Raw sunflower seeds have higher nutritional value than roasted or salted seeds. For those with blood-pressure problems, sunflower seeds are high in potassium and low in sodium – a balance needed by most people. They have a high oil content as polyunsaturated fats and, thanks to the essential linoleic acid and vitamin E they contain, are effective in reducing cholesterol levels and improving or preventing cardiovascular diseases. Sunflower seeds are composed of about 25% protein, and are rich in fiber and vitamin B, high in potassium, low in sodium and contain different proportions of zinc, iron and calcium – a very mineral-rich nutritional source. They have quite high levels of copper, manganese and phosphorus, and also contain magnesium.8
These few examples show how God has used seeds as a means of providing for people in many ways, one of His blessings for which thanks should be given:
So eat from what God has provided for you, lawful and good, and be thankful for the blessing of God if it is Him you worship. (Qur'an, 16:114)
3- 3 Malcolm Wilkins, Plantwatching, New York, Fact on File Publications, 1988, p. 48.
4 Ibid.
5 Wilfred W. Robbins, T. Elliot Weier, C. Ralph Stocking, Botany, An Introduction to Plant Science, John Wiley&Sons, INC., USA: May 1967, p. 270.
6 "Seeds," Elson M. Haas, Health World Online; http://www.healthy.net/asp/templates/book.asp?PageType=Book&ID=343
7 Ibid.
8 Ibid.


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So now we know that NBC's Chuck will get a third season of thrills, spills and... worryingly obvious product placement? Expect to see even more shout-outs to Subway than you would've expected, apparently.
Variety snuck in the lowdown on what it took to keep Chuck going, into a report about NBC's upcoming 2009-2010 slate:
As part of the "Chuck" renewal, [NBC] also sealed a major marketing deal with Subway (which was at the heart of a massive "Save Chuck" campaign). Under the pact, Subway will be integrated in the show — one character will work for the sandwich chain — and other advertising tie-ins will be launched.
Morgan's totally going to end up in Subway, isn't he? So much for that dream of being a benihana chef.
What'll be interesting to see is how the show can incorporate Subway without insulting it; working in a BuyMore was always easy to portray as a dead-end job because it's not a real store, but can the series do the same to the real-life chain helping keep it alive?
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According to imam al Jazari madd munfasil can be read with the duration of one alif. Is this correct?
Also could you tell me all the places where two letters come from the same place but both will be read and not merged into one another. e.g in soorah kafirun the word abadtum is read without the letter daal and merged with "taa". but in soorah maa'idah, ayaat 28 the word basathta is read with letter "twa" first and then also with "taa" and there is no merging. why? and also how many places in the quran does the same rule apply like the example in surah maa'idah, ayah 28
may Allah reward you with good in both lives.
Wa alaikum assalaam wa rahmtaullahi wa barakatuh,
The length of an alif is two vowel counts, and yes, for Hafs 'an 'Aasim in tareeq At-Tayyibah there are some turuq which read two vowel counts. To read this way, one needs to know all the special words and how they are read for the particular tareeq.
When the two letters are or mutaqaaribaan, it is not a given that when the first is saakin and the second voweled that they merge into each other (are read with idhgaam). The two examples given in the question though both have idghaam.
In Surah Al-Maa'idah, aayah 28 , the incompletely merges into the , meaning the characteristic of remains from the , but all the other characteristics of the merge into the .
When there is a saakinah followed by a letter , there is a complete merging of the into the . This is wherever we find this situation in the Qur'an, and that is why we find a shaddah on the letter , an indication of an idghaam. Two examples of this idghaam are found below:
For more information about these types idhgaamaat, and the occurrences asked about in the question, please see:
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Participation in INI programmes is by invitation only. Anyone wishing to apply to participate in the associated workshop(s) should use the relevant workshop application form.
Organisers: S Abramsky (Imperial College, London), G Kahn (INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis), J C Mitchell (Stanford), A M Pitts (Cambridge)
Programme Theme
The general aims of the programme are twofold. First, to refine the current framework for the semantics of computation so that it is capable of dealing with the more subtle computational features present in the programming languages of today and tomorrow. Secondly, to provide a framework for interaction between such fundamental research and the issues confronted by language designers and software engineers. We particularly have in mind current developments such as object-based concurrent programming, and projects to develop the next generation of advanced programming languages, such as ML 2000. The range of technical and conceptual challenges involved in this work requires active collaboration and flow of information between overlapping communities of mathematicians, computer scientists and computer practitioners. Our main objective for the programme is to provide an ideal, focussed setting for intensifying this interaction.
Programme of Events
Jul 10-12: Semantics for System Design (SSD). The object of this short workshop is to stimulate discussion of the top-down approach to semantics for system design. The format will be highly informal. The idea is to stimulate more intimate discussions between those experienced in a variety of semantic approaches. For this reason, the emphasis will be on challenges, open questions, and work in progress, rather than background, results or conclusions. The following people have agreed to give talks so far: H Jifeng, P Gardiner, CAR Hoare, C Martin, O de Moor. For further details contact Tony Hoare.
Jul 17-21: Themes in the Semantics of Computation (TSC). This workshop is intended to open up some of the themes to be pursued during the Semantics of Computation research programme, with some emphasis on the interplay between theory and practice. Apart from the invited talks and accompanying sessions, there will also be scope for contributed talks. Invited speakers will include: CAR Hoare, C Jones, G Kahn, R Milner, JC Reynolds, and A Yonezawa. For further details contact Samson Abramsky.
Aug 14-18: Advances in Type Systems for Computing (ATSC). A Euroconference focussing on three related areas of concern to the programme, namely extensions of the ML type system, types in object-oriented programming and type theories for reactive systems. Invited speakers will include: M Abadi, K Bruce, L Cardelli, R Harper, D MacQueen, X Leroy, J Palsberg, B Pierce, V Saraswat, S Smith, M Tofte, A Yonezawa. Programme committee: S Abramsky, L Cardelli, J Mitchell (chair), A Pitts, A Yonezawa. For further details contact John Mitchell. Grants (from EU HCM Euroconference funds) towards the cost of attending the workshop will be available upon a competitive basis for `young' European researchers: for further details contact Florence Leroy.
Sep 18-19: Category Theory and Logic Programming. Organiser Jim Lipton.
Sep 25-29: Summer School on Semantics and Logics of Computation (SLC) in collaboration with the CEC ESPRIT project Categorical Logic in Computer Science (CLICS-II). Lecturers: S Abramsky, T Coquand, M Hofmann, M Hyland, E Moggi, M Neilsen, A Pitts, G Winskel. Organisers: A Pitts (for the programme) and P Dybjer (for CLICS-II). For further details contact Andrew Pitts.
Oct 2-4: High-level Concurrent Languages: Foundations and Verification Techniques (HLCL). The object of this short workshop is to bring together programming language designers and concurrency theorists to share both ideas and problems, focussing on what can be achieved with present-day tools and techniques and on the search for new foundations. For further details contact either Benjamin Pierce or Matthew Hennessy.
Oct 16-18:Linear Logic and Applications (LLA). This short workshop will focus on recent developments in Linear Logic and its applications to computer science. For further details contact Gavin Bierman.
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Saturday, Oct. 29, 2016 through Sunday, Feb. 5, 2017
Discover a bonanza of Western paintings, films, and sculptures in the Chrysler Museum of Art's fall keynote exhibition. Branding the American West: Paintings and Films, 1900–1950 features classic images of cowboys, Native Americans, mountains and deserts. Though many of the works closely correspond to most Americans' ideas of the "Wild West," the show also includes artworks that challenge those popular views.
Headlining this stampede of more than 100 works of art are iconic images by Frederic Remington, Charles Marion Russell, and N. C. Wyeth. These master illustrators created a visual "brand" for the frontier as a land filled with adventure and rugged individualism. Turn-of-the-century city dwellers adored nostalgic fantasies of the Wild West, but as this show reveals, some artists challenged these stereotypes and acknowledged the taming and modernizing of the region.
Since the Chrysler Collection has very few works of Western art within its sweeping American art galleries, "an exhibition of this scope and scale brings something new to our audiences. It transports visitors across the country—and back in time—to a place of mystery, beauty, and sometimes danger and contradictions."
Paintings and novels about the Wild West fueled tourism and immigration to the region, particularly Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. Branding the American West explores this moment of change, considering how the arrival of railroads, automobiles, and industry shifted the character of Western art.
Painters discovered the bright sunlight and rich colors of the Southwest and responded with experimental and abstract styles of artmaking, as seen in
Maynard Dixon's Mesas in Shadow (1926)
and other sweeping vistas. The show features more than a dozen powerful landscapes by Dixon, who described his work as capturing the West's "sense of sun and space and silence—of serenity—of strength and freedom."
Maynard Dixon, Round Dance, 1931, oil on canvasboard, 15 7/16 x 19 7/8 in., Brigham Young University Museum of Art, gift of Herald R. Clark
Some of the finest paintings in this exhibition were created in Taos, N.M., a Pueblo village that developed a vibrant colony of artists beginning in the 1910s. These artists' appreciation for both the landscape and cultural history of the West is evident in works like
Joseph Henry Sharp's Council Call of the Crow,
a magnificent sunset view of an Indian camp. Other works by the Taos painters celebrate the extraordinary craftsmanship and design of Native pottery, baskets, and textiles.
Perhaps the most innovative feature of Branding the American West is its comparison of fine art with film, breaking new scholarly ground by recognizing the importance of the American West to the early history of Hollywood. Throughout the galleries video monitors will juxtapose clips from classic movies by John Ford and Cecil B. DeMille with the works of Remington, Dixon, and their colleagues. These pairings show how filmmakers translated competing "brands" of the frontier from canvas to the big screen. A series of Western-themed programs, talks, films, and family activities complement the exhibition throughout its run.
Branding the American West: Paintings and Films, 1900–1950 is organized by the Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, Utah, and the Stark Museum of Art, Orange, Texas.
More Images: http://moa.byu.edu/project/branding-the-american-west-paintings-and-films-1900-1950/


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The extensive vehicle fleet maintains over 250,000 properties annually Axis is one of the country's leading providers of maintenance and refurbishment for the housing, commercial and retail sector. In particular, Axis is responsible for the housing stock of some of the UK's largest social housing landlords. The organisation maintains over 250,000 properties each year and carries out in excess of 300,000 responsive repairs per year. 2,000 properties are fully refurbished and every year Axis ensures 3,000 empty houses meet a Decent Homes standard.
The business employs over 750 people working out of six offices from the South of England to the Midlands, and operates a fleet of over 240 vehicles.
Existing telematics complicated and restrictive Axis had used telematics before and found this to be restrictive in terms of functionality and level of comprehensive reporting. Furthermore, it was not intuitive and as a consequence there were only a few users, meaning it was not being used as an integral part of the business, or to its full potential.
To create better efficiencies across the business, more departments and therefore more users would need to access the system. This coupled with a drive to improve fuel consumption and lower costs meant a new solution was needed.
Axis operatives use league tables to improve driving Axis selected the TomTom Telematics WEBFLEET system, using LINK tracking devices and ecoPLUS units for measuring fuel consumption and CO2 output. This has been implemented gradually as a replacement to the previous system. All of the company's 241 vehicles are now monitored using the WEBFLEET software and the data can be quickly analysed, using customisable reporting with a "dashboard" overview.
Vehicle locations are crucial to the running of Axis' Housing Division in particular as by using telematics devices, Axis are able to respond faster to urgent requests for assistance which means a better service for customers. The system also provides an OptiDrive score for each driver showing their behaviour in 5 areas: speeding; harsh braking; heavy cornering; idling and mpg. This allows them to measure the improvements, and also focus attention on problem areas to maintain a good standard across the fleet.
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And so it came to be that a once-idealistic and now terribly overeducated young lady would spend her nights mixing and serving cocktails to rowdy vacationers—sunburned Suncoast visitors who were, more often than not, too drunk to remember to tip the increasingly irritated waitress—and pass the mornings sleeping, eating my breakfast at noon. Or perhaps, if I was lucky, heading out for yet another local go-see, or audition, for used car commercials, swimsuit catalogs, or embarrassing-in-retrospect wine-cooler promotions that inevitably meant long hours wearing short skirts. In supermarkets.
Every Tuesday night, though, I'd head to the local rock-'n-roll club. Tuesday was special. It was New Wave Night, which usually meant live bands, wildly creative outfits, and enough disaffected, clove-cigarette-smoking company to make me feel a tiny bit less lonely. I met Kjeld at New Wave Night. He was a fellow bookworm and fashionphile with whom I'd sit up all night talking about the clothes we coveted, the models we admired, the pricey-but-wonderful Paris Vogue that had just hit the stands, and whatever nihilist novel one of us had recently discovered and almost finished. Kjeld would also introduce me to his sister, Cynthia, who'd soon become the best girlfriend I ever had.
While Kjeld was introverted, his carrot-orange spiked hair and kohl-lined eyes a jarring contradiction to the bookish, profoundly intelligent soul within, Cynthia was brash and outgoing, an eternally caffeinated cheerleader of a girl who loved to watch baseball, and since Clearwater is host to a number of baseball Spring Training camps, she could attend the breezy outdoor games (not to mention date more than a few of the players) to her heart's delight.
One night, after rolling in around four a.m., Cynth sat down with us in Kjeld's room. She wasn't interested in sleeping; tonight, she wanted to talk fashion and movies, too.
"Kjeld said he went with you for the audition and you got to meet James Woods," she said, shoving aside a pile of magazines and sitting cross-legged on the bed. "What movie is it—do you know yet?"
"I don't know the title of it; they're not saying," I said. "I think they're trying to keep things quiet because Robert DeNiro is going to be in it and I guess he doesn't want a lot of fans calling his room."
"Deborah was the last extra to get fitted, right before the principals," said Kjeld, dragging deeply on one of my Dunhill Menthols. "So we got to meet James Woods." I'd taken the artistic Kjeld along with me for moral support as well as his ability to make my cheekbones look, well, like cheekbones. "James Woods—you know, of The Onion Field." He got up and headed for the restroom.
"Did you know Kjeld is still a virgin?" Cynthia whispered, catching me off-guard. "And I think he's gay, too, but he's afraid to date anyone around here…he's just so afraid, period. And I worry."
One afternoon, still puffy-eyed with sleep, I answered the telephone.
"It's Cynthia. Kjeld's sister. I wanted to tell you that Kjeld left for New York last night—he said he couldn't take it any more. He hated the job at the bakery, he hates the rednecks and bigots in this town—not you, of course—so he bought a one-way ticket to the City. He's going to stay with friends and work toward getting his beautician's license," she said.
He didn't tell me because he knew I'd be selfish and try to talk him out of it. My heart sank.
"What are you doing later?" Cynth was asking now. "Want to go out to a club or something?"
And that's what we did, Cynthia and I. We went to a club in Tampa, and after talking about Kjeld for a while, we discussed all sorts of other topics. I knew nothing about baseball; Cynth couldn't care less about Nietsche and Camus. I was in my pretentious and highly affected eighties Black Period, ordering martinis and requesting—and surely mispronouncing—a certain Russian vodka; she was wearing head-to-toe fuchsia and drinking rum-and-Cokes. Yet we had more in common than I'd ever have imagined—a passionate interest in women's rights, a fondness for British television, and best of all, the complete lack of funds that drives one to seek fashion in unconventional places.
"So. Why don't we go thrift shopping sometime?" I said.
A friendship was born; two closets began to expand. And I noticed something else happening: as I grew more adventurous with color, Cynthia began to tame her wardrobe palette. She also began to run on a treadmill and stopped eating cheeseburgers and nachos—all meat, in fact. When we went shopping on Saturdays, we'd gorge on salads and containers of vegetable soup bought at the health-food store, and if we were feeling especially celebratory that week, we'd buy the occasional chocolate truffle or mini-croissant to go with our skim-milk cafés-con-leche.
When I met my husband—the day after I'd met him, in fact—Cynthia was the one I called.
"So I'm standing in the back garden with my date from last night…"
"Ooooh! Do tell!"
"Well…we're going out again this evening, but I had to stop in at my house for a bit—get some clothes, feed the cat, you know…"
"I love it. This is serious. I can tell: you've never called me about a guy before. Hey, phone me again soon when you can talk."
And I did call her again—countless times in the decade that followed. Whether it was the best of times or the worst of times, Cynthia was a constant, a kind and sympathetic ear when I needed it most; a stern taskmistress when I hinted at self pity—which Cynth considered pointless—or showed signs of going under with the depression I sometimes battled.
At Kjeld's sweet apartment in New York, I remarked how much I loved his sister.
"You know, we didn't get along when we were growing up, but now we talk all the time. She loves that Siamese cat of hers, and Carl, well, she adores him," said Kjeld, referring to his beautiful Danish lover, the man with whom he'd recently traveled to Copenhagen and for whom we were now waiting. We flipped through thick stacks of photographs.
"This is me at Carl's parents' house; that's his mother." Kjeld's English had acquired an amusingly accurate Danish flavor. I remembered his fondness for a large coffee-table book about the ballet dancer Peter Martins and imagined him poring over Berlitz manuals with the same ardor. "This is Carl, and me, visiting our friend in the hospital a couple of days before he died."
I peered at the frail man in the bed. His white hospital gown was, like all hospital gowns, far too loose. The friends who ringed the bed wore dark woolen things, coats and capes and knitted caps, and the sky outside the window behind them was damp-gray, too. But everyone was smiling, even the patient, and a fat, colorful cluster of balloons was tied to the bed's guard rail.
"Oh, AIDS, of course."
I would later tell Cynthia about our visit. "You should see Carl lately—he's completely gorgeous, in a horn-rimmed glasses, Comme des Garcons, European sort of way."
"Ha! Funny you should say that. Carl works at Comme des Garcons. Doesn't get much of a discount. But he did give Kjeld a fantastic jacket for his birthday. What about you, though--did you find a wedding dress?"
I had, in fact. I found my wedding dress in New York, the new hometown of my one-time dancing buddy Kjeld and the former one of my husband-to-be, the guy I'd called Cynth about the day after our first date. The only guy I'd ever called her about.
"Are you busy with your family today? I'm freaking out. There's no way I can make all this Thanksgiving stuff and take care of Mogwai and nurse him and tidy up the house….HELP!" I had the cordless phone wedged between my jaw and my shoulder as I danced around the kitchen, trying in vain to get "Mogwai" (the nickname we'd bestowed on my first son, in honor of the little Gremlin-like coos he'd made as a newborn) to stop fussing. Not only did Cynthia come over that day, but she sang to Mogwai and bounced him on her skinny knee; she read to him from Sesame Street cloth books and generally entertained him while I pureed chunks of pumpkin in the food processor and made a frantic idiot of myself in an attempt to prove that Having A Baby Would Not Change My Life. We laughed about it years later, remembering the feast and the mess. Marveling at my deranged insistence on making not one, but two kinds of dessert: real pumpkin pies with home-made pastry, and chocolate-cranberry torte decorated with handmade chocolate leaves and cranberries that Cynth and I had rolled in egg white and sugar and arranged in clusters, like small sparkling grapes.
Cynthia and I talked almost every day, though we lived a half-hour apart. Sometimes we just gossiped or griped a little; other times we planned fantasy trips to cities like Boston or San Francisco, where Kjeld and Carl had recently moved. Places we'd go when my two boys were a bit older and, we reasoned, easier to endure or, hell, just leave with my husband—he could handle it. Or we'd talk about our cats or recommend beauty products to each other, enjoying our girlishness in a manner that would seem cliché to anyone unfamiliar with all-boy houses like mine, or all-man offices like hers. We were both gloriously, hilariously vain, though Cynthia was far more dedicated to the whole cleanse-tone-and-moisturize thing than I was. Her discipline was clearly evident in her poreless skin; my own sloth, along with some not-infrequent chocolate binges, were also regrettably obvious.
We never talked much about Cynthia's family, though, with the exception of one time when we'd had too many glasses of wine during our traditional Christmas Eve Girls' Day Out. Cynth confided that her father, who'd left the family when the children were still in elementary school, had been unspeakably abusive to her. I'd known about his alcoholism and his rages toward Kjeld—he'd told me stories about his dad's drunken put-downs and the anger he'd expressed at having a skinny, intellectual son whom he considered effeminate and unworthy. But I had no idea his vitriol had extended to Cynthia.
"When I was nine, he drowned my cat in the canal behind our house. He made me watch."
"Dear God. Why?" I asked, my throat closing in shock, my voice thick with tears, though I can't say I expected there to be any sort of satisfactory why. Apparently, he'd blown up about some chore that, in his eyes, Cynthia had neglected. He would teach her to ever disobey him again.
"It's me. It's yet another boy," I mumbled into my cell phone on the way home from my sonogram, expecting the tone of Cynthia's response to match my own unfortunate glumness.
"That's fantastic, Deborah! Three boys! Wow. Wow!"
Later, she left me a voice mail: Listen, I know you. I know you wanted to sew dresses and tie ribbons around braids. I know all that stuff. And I know you're feeling unbelievably guilty for being sad right now. So I wanted to tell you that it's okay. You were so sure you'd have a girl this time, I mean, you even bought a little dress and everything—of course you're sad. You're mourning. You're mourning the idea of a little girl, the loss of that idea, that phantom girl. But in no time, you'll be cheering for the wonderful boy you'll have, the newest brother—a team! Don't worry, and don't feel guilty, for Heaven's sake.
A few weeks later, I would receive a call from Kjeld and Cynthia's mother, something unusual enough in itself that the sound of her voice on the telephone made my forearms ripple with goosebumps.
"Cynthia is really sick, Deborah. She's in the hospital…" This could not be. I had spoken with her only days before; I'd called her from the airport before leaving for a weekend in Philadelphia with my husband. Her stomach had been bothering her for a couple of weeks, due in no small part, I was certain, to the long hours she'd recently been working; she'd spend all day at the law office, typing letters and answering phones, and all night researching real estate law for her boyfriend's upcoming breach-of-contract litigation. It had sounded like an ulcer to me, and I urged her to see a doctor, which she did. In our conversation at the airport, she reported that the ulcer medicine was really helping, and so was drinking lots of water.
"What happened?" I asked, rubbing my swollen stomach as though it were Aladdin's lamp, wishing for good news but somehow knowing there was none forthcoming.
"They, ah…they found a mass. They're doing a biopsy later this morning. I'll call you as soon as I know anything."
We would take the boys to the zoo that day for a field trip with their school. Then we would stop at the pizzeria on the way home. I waited in the car because the tiny, pungent restaurant was too intense for my pregnant-woman nose. I wound the windows down for air, then got out and paced back and forth. I was furiously hungry—what was taking everyone so long? My cell phone rang: Cynthia's mom.
"It's the worst possible news. It's pancreatic cancer. She knows, but she doesn't know you know."
"So, what do you know. Tell me what you know." Cynthia was thinner than ever, a wraith with fluffy hair and moon-pale skin.
"Everything. I know about everything. Oh God." I held out my hand and she wound cool, bony fingers around my warm, swollen ones. I looked around the room—there was nothing bright or offensive, no faux-cheerful distraction to make fun of or rally against—only dull, murky hospital tones.
I made a list in my head as I drove home. She would have flowers tomorrow, the best I could find. And some real bedding. I went on a shopping trip to end all shopping trips, pulling the toddler seat from the car and shoving toys out of the way to make room for down pillows and peonies. I bought bags of strawberry throat lozenges from our favorite health food store.
At the end of my next visit, I leaned over and kissed her forehead. This was a mistake.
"I just cleansed my face, Deborah. Now would you kindly re-do the toner thing so I don't get pimples? Thank you." She was equally bossy with the hospital about the food she probably wouldn't be able to eat anyway, since they'd removed parts of her digestive system. Carbohydrates were verboten, she told the dietician—would she be this slim if she ate all that dough? Good Heavens. And what sort of fish did they have? Would that be grilled as opposed to fried, she hoped?
"Walk with me, okay? I need to exercise. We'll have to haul all this junk along, though." And so we walked the halls of the cancer ward: one pink-cheeked and chattering female, her belly exploding with rambunctious life; one spectrally weightless and quiet woman, her shoulder pressed against the IV pole, trailing a half-dozen tubes as she went.
She didn't stay there for long, though. Ever the practical, cool-headed woman, Cynthia informed her mother she would rather rest at home and have Hospice bring over pain medication, which turned out to be the strangest-looking liquid I'd ever seen: tarry, blackish-green stuff served in a tiny plastic cup.
Within days, Cynth wasn't able to speak very much. She drifted in and out of consciousness as she lay in her bed; Kjeld had blow-dried her dark blonde hair just so. But her mother had dressed her in an old t-shirt, This way, she'll be comfortable.
"Look," said Cynthia, pointing to a vase of carnations. Scarlet ones. "My father came. We spoke. We made peace."
I turned away so she wouldn't see my face, though to this day I don't know what it would have said to her. That I hated this man I'd never met? That I felt equal measures of pride and guilt at having a warm, loving father myself, as well as anger that this falling blossom of a woman could not, in her final days, look back on her life and draw the comfort of happy memories around her like a favorite shawl?
And there it was, right next to the vase of red flowers: a stuffed cat. Holy Mother of God, I thought. He bought her a cat. It was a cheap, ugly little Siamese cat, too, made of real rabbit fur, with beady glass eyes staring blankly at nothing. A cat fashioned of real, dead fur for the vegetarian daughter he wounded so brutally all those years ago. He never knew her, and he never would. He meant nothing—he was nothing.
She didn't say anything else to me directly, but she murmured Oh my…oh my… a number of times, as though she was seeing something that astonished her. Oh, my!
Later, Kjeld baked a cake to celebrate Cynthia's thirty-seventh birthday: chocolate, with whipped cream and fresh raspberries. We sat at the dining table while Cynth slept in her room, and we ate cake without her. She'd have been so upset.
The call came the next morning: Cynthia passed away just before dawn. Kjeld had awakened with a start when Cynth's cat, Vibeca, wailed and ran around the room in frantic circles, her eyes wild and her fur standing on end.
My best friend's last words, I'm told, were ones of salutation: "Chang!" Cynthia said, as though she hadn't stopped speaking more than a day before. "Chang! Oh, Chang. There you are."


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