Friday, May 20, 2016

Letter to Erin 20160521

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

Hi, Coach Crowley!  Now don't you use the word "bubble" about your home.  I need you to be optimistic.  There might be some guy over here giving his life to build your house.  I suggest you call it your "mini home".  I spent the evening dismantling all that debris I showed you, making the pieces small enough to fit in my fire pit, to burn when the next big storm comes.  It's a trip watching the fire burn right in the middle of a heavy rainstorm.  There were huge storm clouds gathering right when I went outside to break down the trash.  It came from the north, then it went east then south and west.  The storm went around us.  It's almost as if God were playing a joke.  I'm sure it's not funny to the rice farmers, who still don't have enough water to start the next crop and have been in that position for the past 6 months.

Isn't it a trip to see Gisele go near psycho in that VS angels in Venice video?  And to see Ed Razek's face, it's as if a chill crept up his spine.  Maybe she did have jet lag.  I don't know.  Ana-Beatriz is so much prettier than Gisele.  So is Adriana.  Gisele looks like a McDonald's burger.  That's not a bad thing: a McDonald's burger is a beautiful thing to people who love burgers.

You on the other hand, look like an All-American Sweetheart.  A beautiful girl who loves football, basketball, baseball, and hockey, and you have a heart of gold.  I love you with all my heart, and I need you.  I didn't do much cooking today.  Just leftovers for lunch, and a pizza for dinner.  I didn't go anywhere either, other than to the mosque for Friday Prayer, and to buy drinking water.  You can drink water out of the faucet, but it doesn't taste good.  I'm so used to filtered water.  Those industrial sized water filters generate better tasting water than home water filters.  They take better care of them too, and I'm so used to the flavor of well-filtered water.  My parents buy a couple of cartons of 1.5 liter bottles of drinking water at a time.  We're going to have to keep about 10 full bottles at a time of those big bottles in your house.  InshaAllah.

**News Flash**  Right as I had finished writing this letter for today and was about to start on something else, the rain started to pour.  So I ran outside and tried to light that fire, but all I got was soaked.  So I changed my clothes, grabbed an umbrella and tried again and again, but everything was wet.  Eventually, I got some dry kindling that was in the shade of my house and set that on fire.  I spent most of the night  fanning the flames until the whole thing caught on fire, just in time before the rain really started to pour.  In the background, my TV was playing Tony Franklin's version of "The Rain Song" on fretless bass.




Qur'an 20160521

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

18.  The Jews and the Christians say, "We are sons of Allah, and God's beloved."  Say, "Why then does God punish you for your sins?  No, you are but men, of the men God has created.  God forgives whom God pleases and God punishes whom God pleases, and to Allah belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth and all that is in between, and unto God is the final goal."

(The Repast 5:18)
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