Letter to Erin 20160327

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

Hi Erin!  Are you feeling better today?  I wish we could feel better and better everyday, wouldn't that be nice?  I wish we were together.  I wish to be with you always, my beloved.  You are my world.  You are MY girl.  You are the most beautiful girl in the world.  I love you and I need you. 

Oh, I'm feeling OK.  I wanted to stay at home and not go anywhere or spend any money today, but I needed some fish cake for my noodles, so I had to go to the corner store.  Can't have noodles in soup without fish cake.  Unless the broth is beef or chicken stock.  This time I had a lot of Enoki mushrooms, which blended smoothly with the rice vermicelli.  I had some "asam pedas" spices left over, you know, the turmeric/hot pepper blend.  I went to my grandparents' graves to cut the grass, but there wasn't much to cut.  The dry weather has made the graveyard visible and easy to navigate.  You should see the place when there's plenty of rain.  Then I cut the grass over at my grandparents' old house, which will your house inshaAllah.  Not much grass to cut there as well.  That's it for grass cutting for a while.  Next chore is to finish breaking down all the stuff I chainsawed for burning.  Dinner was pizza.  That batch of dough didn't turn out so nice, because I forgot to compensate for the dry weather.  It's already starting to turn sour, which tastes good though but doesn't brown well.  Tonight I'll practice bass.  You know Erin, 20 or 30 years ago, people would be so impressed with musicians playing speed licks on bass, guitar, or drums.  Nowadays everybody's doing it, so it's become nothing special.  I enjoy playing fast on a bass occasionally, but it's nothing I would ever use in a song.  After that, I'll just veg out and watch TV.  Oh no, I still don't have any snacks!

Qur'an 20160327

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

119.  Ah!  You are those who love them but they love you not, though you believe in the whole of the Book, when they meet you, they say, "We believe," but when they are alone, they bite the very tips of their fingers at you in their rage.  Say, "Perish in your rage: Allah knows well all the secrets of the heart."

120.  If aught that is good befalls you, it grieves them, but if some misfortune overtakes you, they rejoice at it.  But if you are constant and do right, not the least harm will their cunning do to you, for Allah compasses round about all that they do.

(The Family of Imran 3:119-120)
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