Monday, May 5, 2014

Letter to Julia 20140505


In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.

How are you feeling today, my dearest Julia and Erin?  I pray you are keeping the faith and enjoying yourselves.  I just got finished making dough and sardine dip for my breakfast bread.  Most delicious, and a quick and fresh breakfast.  Ingredients?  Onions blended in oil and a little bit of belacan (pronounced "belahchan" not "belliken", which is fermented shrimp cake), fried up with pepper and red hot pepper paste, then crumbled deboned sardines from a can.  Sardine bones make a great fond, by the way.  After I'm out of sardine dip, I'll make chicken curry for my morning bread.

A lot is going on right now, but nothing that I can talk about, because I'm not really doing anything, so I can't get any credit.  The credit goes to Allah.  Let's just say that God is putting on a marvelous and highly entertaining show, and the Master is toppling pawns all over the place.  So I hope you are paying attention, and your spy network is cluing you in on all the news.  This also to remind you, and I mean the both of you, that you are already at the top of your game, because Allah put you there.  The world is your stage, so don't try too hard.  You don't have to do much of anything except be beautiful, and you are.  Did you expect to have a long acting career like Jodie Foster to then finally get... married... at the age of 60 or 70 something?  So please be grateful to Allah for putting you on this spiritual trip.  As for me, I love you I love you, and I need you I need you.