Letter to Erin 20150513

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

Hello there, my dearest Erin.  Sweetie!  Are you feeling feminine today?  You are MY girl.  You are so beautiful, and I love you with all my heart.  I love you, and I need you.

I'm feeling better than I did yesterday, but my nose is still kind of stuffed up.  I'm not running a river of snot, but I am stuffed up.  I seem to talk a lot about the flu because it affects my singing.  Damn singers!  I hate them.  Divas, all of them.  A lot of my voice goes out through my nose when I sing.  People might think that it's easy to sing: "Oh, it's just like talking bla bla bla, anybody can do it."  Yeah, anybody can sing, but it's extremely difficult to sing well, and it means more than you can imagine mashaAllah.  So I was struggling today during voice training, trying to get the voice go out the nose and breathe at the same time.  My voice has become extremely sensitive since I became a chick singer.  I was pushing hard to move sound through the nose, when my fever came back.  I felt like collapsing, I was hallucinating and all that, but it wasn't anything a couple of aspirin couldn't fix.  Singing has to be perfect every time: I just can't give out a mediocre performance, not with the knowledge Allah has given me.  But the body has to be in perfect condition to sing perfectly.  Damn singers!  I hate them.  Divas, all of them.

Otherwise, I was able to function somewhat normally today.  I spent the morning filling up peat pots, then perusing each mango, after my usual morning routine with my plants and my cats.  Lunch was noodles with Chinese cabbage, using chicken broth that I made last night.  After voice training, I trimmed the trees over at your house inshaAllah, dug up some tapioca for my Mom, then filled up more peat pots.  Dinner was steak and cheese burritos with Chinese cabbage.  Yeah I know, burritos can only have beans and beef.  Tastes better than a beef and bean burrito though, if I may say so myself.  Want one?  Oh no, I ate yours!  Well, you weren't here for dinner!

Qur'an 20150513

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

4.  Say, "Do you see what it is you invoke besides Allah?  Show me what it is they have created on earth, or have they a share in the heavens? Bring me a book before this or any remnant of knowledge, if you are telling the truth!"

The Winding Sand Tracts 46:4
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Do you see what it is you invoke besides Allah?  Show me what it is they have created on earth, or have they a share in the heavens? Bring me a book before this or any remnant of knowledge, if you are telling the truth!