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On changing up the routine

I find it hard to do anything consistently year to year.  I guess I like to monkey with routines, just to keep things interesting –slash–entertaining.  There is a lot of repeated work done in the garden and the food preservation kitchen, and, true to form, I tend to monkey with that too.  For the most part my manipulations have the stated aim of efficiency.  I do tend to keep what works, admittedly.  Other times, well, I am simply prone to tinker.

And this year, I am not waiting until fall to harvest my tomato seeds.  NOPE!  I am doing it now, as the tomatoes ripen.  I pick the biggest and most ripe fruit, slice open the bottom, squish the pulp and seeds into a glass canning jar, add a tiny bit of water, put a label and a lid on it, and…wait for science to happen.  [note: I tend to get two fruits, from two different plants, just to keep my genetics open.]

P1000509-1Granted, seeing moldering produce on one’s kitchen counter is not everyone’s cup of tea.  In the general chaos that is my canning kitchen, however, this is not much of a hardship.  I also have the advantage of being fully aware of how the seeds are doing: they are under my nose, after all, vying for space on the butcher block.  Toward the end of the season, when I normally tackle this task, I am so fed up with tomatoes that saving their seeds is generally accompanied by my resentment of the things, with a lot of “never again” oaths thrown in.  This does not work in the tomatoes’ favor, not at all.  Now, well, now I have the fresh eyes and enthusiasms of a newbie!

So, after about a week, a nice blue-green mold will grace the surface layer of the watery seed pulp.  Fungi Are Our Friends here, as they break down the slimy seed sack in which the seeds are floating.  I take the moldy jars outside, dump the seeds into a very fine meshed colander and spray off all the goo with the hose.  Then I take the seeds back indoors and let them dry a little bit.  I spread them out individually onto a labeled white paper towel:  they’ll stick to this, but I just cut a bit of the towel around the seed when it’s time to plant them.  I let them dry fully, then I roll up the paper towel and store it in a jar in the basement with all the other seeds.

17 responses to “On changing up the routine

  1. Do you wait until the tomatoes are really ripe or just pretty close? I know that you can let a green tomato ripen on the counter and then extract viable seeds from it, but was wondering if I should let the “pretty ripe” ones sit a bit longer before removing the seeds. Thanks.

    • Hi Mike: letting them ripen on the counter should do the trick. I just figure that in nature these things would go completely ripe, near rotting, before dropping to the ground and starting life anew so…I just try to repeat what happens “out there.”

  2. Sounds reasonable, to take your enthusiasm level into account. Seems a useful task, and one you’ll appreciate even more next year for not adding to your resentment level this year.

  3. You are remarkably clever.

  4. That’s the best description I’ve ever read for saving tomato seeds…thanks!

    I live in California where it frosts lightly…I always get volunteer tomato plants in the spring because I often let poor or overripe or split fruit lie on the ground as compost. I rarely allow them to grow, though (more compost).

    When I first started gardening I never thought I’d become a seed saver….gardening is enough work already! Last fall I impulsively saved a green “Cherokee Purple” tomato, tried to let it ripen on the counter and finally just haphazardly saved the seeds. Soaked them a couple of days in water but when they dried left them on the plate on a shelf to overwinter. This spring they turned into the most vigorous plants! I’ve got two growing and they’re looking good.

    Somewhere I read that Cherokee Purple is indeterminate, but it behaves determinately for me.

    Now I’m a seed saving fanatic, and this fall…watch out!

  5. fun. i’m saving seeds for the first time this year, beginning with tomatoes. just waiting for enough to ripen to be worth saving…the trickle is slow still.

  6. I’ve got some tomatoes in my dining room just waiting to be cut up for seed saving. I should get to it soon.

  7. Well, this is my first year starting tomatoes from seed and my first year saving the seed, too. So why not start with your method? I know what the harvesting, mad food preservation time feels like, so I certainly don’t want to add to that craziness. If this sun and heat last the week, we should start getting a bunch of toms turning finally!

    A question: we are in the NE, but I see no signs of late blight (fingers crossed). If that comes along, are the seeds contaminated too? No sense saving something that is doomed or likely to cause worse problems next year.

  8. Great description. I’ve always wondered how tomato seeds can be saved since they are floating in the tomato pulp. So after they are dry, how do you save them? Packets of paper? And in planting time, do the seeds get treated like purchased seeds, or is there a different method…

  9. Mike, I hope that helps. You sure have lots of tomatoes to seed harvest from this year!

    Stef, it’s always wise to take one’s enthusiasm into account. I am usually fairly happy to do it but in the fall I am a lot more distracted!

    Pamela, no I am not, I just read a lot of gardening and seed-saving books.

    Petunia, you’re not the only fan of Cherokee Purple that I know. I need to try them sometime. But your method of composting them reminds me of a story from my city gardening days. I had a friend go out to the garden and harvest what he could for our dinner, and he came back into the house and said, “You know you have a couple of bombs on the ground out there,” and I had no idea what he was talking about. Tomato bombs! If you let them, the fruits will yield dozens of seedlings.

    Serina, good! Not good that it’s taking so long, just, good you’re going to save them!

    Daphne, yeah, if they’re fairly ripe. I almost never use the whole tomato, just a bit of it, so if you have a recipe that needs them do it at the same time.

    Andrea, I would guess you shouldn’t save them if they get blighted. My understanding though is once they get blight the whole plant dies so you probably wouldn’t be able to get seed from ripe fruit anyway. But yeah, it’s a fungus so its spores are tiny enough to be attached to the fruits (if you had blight that is otherwise go ahead and save ’em).

    MC, I just leave them on the paper towel, rolled up and labeled, until I need them. Then I tear off a piece with a seed attached and plant it. Doesn’t seem to hurt the seed at all, and it’ll decompose just fine. Good luck!

  10. Just thinking here, as I’m a seed saving newbie. Would it actually benefit from choosing an early fruit, so as to encourage that type of behavoir?

    (I know other factors like weather and misc conditions also contribute to ripening…)

    • Sara, that’s a good question, one which I have no real answer. I would think saving a fruit from the PLANT that ripens lots earlier than its fellows would be a good candidate; I am not so sure earlier ripening gets carried along the fruit that ripens earliest if they’re all ripening…does that make any sense?

  11. No tomatoes, but cherry tomatoes BUT finally we have green beans, Bushels of green beans!!!
    I will be busy for a while!

  12. Thanks! This is the first year I am attempting to save tomato seeds, and I was wondering what would be the best way. Can’t wait to give it a try.

  13. Always happy to hear about seed savers. I don’t know how much of what I come across is true, but I never dreamed peoples’ rights to save seed and grow their own choice of plants would be challenged. In case, save and grow!

  14. Great post! I requested (and received) a number of heirloom (indeterminate) tomato seeds from WinterSown.org this year and they included a seed saving pamplet with their package. Your instructions are much simpler, clearer and… healthier: step 6 in their pamphlet says to “add a small amt of powdered disinfectant cleanser. Set timer for 30 minutes. The cleanser needs time to dissolve the gel and tomato bits”) HA HA HA! Ewwww….

  15. How far apart do you grow your tomato plants to reduce cross pollination?

    I used to contract grow small lots of tomato seeds. I recommend you stir or shake the seeds at least every other day while fermenting. This loosens the gel around the seeds. How long to ferment? The hard way is end-point fermentation. That is you rinse when they stop bubbling. Easy way. Ferment for 7 days exactly. I write the day on the jay with a sharpie, which will wash off. Less than 7 days and you may not get the full beneficial effect. More than 7 days and the seeds may sprout – not a good thing.

    I use wide mouth canning jars for fermentation. (Easier to clean than the regular size.) I cut wire screen to just fit inside canning jar rings. (Use a canning lid for a template to get them round.) I have also used muslin and rings. I want to let the wee beasties in the air into the jar (bacteria and fungi). And I have always been afraid that sealing the jars may cause them to burst.

    When you are ready to wash, stir the seeds well in the jar. Let the seeds settle, the pour the liquid and anything floating into a bucket. Add water to the jar and repeat until the seeds are clean. Use a sharpie and write the name of the tomato on a large coffee filter and put the filter in your strainer. Pour the seeds and water into it and let drain. Staple the filter to a paper plate and put on a stack of newspapers. Spread out the seeds as much as possible with your fingers. Repeat with other varieties.

    I had you save the liquid from the tomatoes because it is the best compost activator I have seen. Just pour it on your compost pile and watch it shrink.

    I had you use coffee filters because the seeds won’t stick to it. You can flex the dried filter and the seeds will pop off. I buy commercial size filters by the case, 1000. These are about the same size as the cheap paper plates I buy, which help keep the filters from blowing away and to keep them flat. The newspapers help wick the water away. The filters will last forever if you keep the mice out of them. Do not dry outside. One gust of wind can ruin a years worth of work. (Don’t ask me how I know.)

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Acts 9.36-42 | Order of Worship

It’s been called “the forgotten resurrection story.” Hard as resurrection is to forget, this story of Peter raising Tabitha has been ignored or at least overshadowed.

Everyone knows Lazarus and how Jesus wept for him before calling to him in his tomb, “Come out!”

We remember the son of the widow at Nain — how Jesus encounters his funeral procession and his mother wondering what will become of her now that he is gone. “Young man, I say to you, arise.”

And who can forget Jairus’ daughter, whom Jesus’ raises with those beautiful Aramaic words, “Talitha, cum,” — little girl, get up.

But Tabitha slips our minds and is sometimes skipped in our sermons and study of scripture. Is it because these other stories are in the gospels, while her story is in the book of Acts? Is it something about the story itself? Is it something about her?

“Tabitha” is what Peter would have called her, but to others she was known as Dorcas — woman whose work and witness was so wide it needed at least two names. One name is Aramaic — a semitic language, and the common language of Jews at that time in that area. The other name is Greek. Even her name itself, “Tabitha called Dorcas” is evidence of the span of her influence. She embodied the universal reach of the gospel that we see throughout the book of Acts — the stretch of the gospel “from Jerusalem to Judea and to the ends of the earth,” as Acts 1:8 describes.

We remember how this has always been the movement of the God of Israel — unbound, unrestrained, always moving toward more openness and greater reach to all people. The story is set in Joppa, after all — a city we might recognize, remembering that hundreds of years earlier Jonah came to Joppa, fleeing from the Lord because he was afraid of God’s call to expand the reach and preach to the Ninevites. Peter is now in the same city with the same call, but he is not afraid. The Spirit had rested on Peter at Pentecost, and he had proclaimed to the crowds, “this promise is for you, for your children, and for all who are far away.” Peter has traveled that far distance throughout the first part of Acts. Even with Paul’s conversion, it’s not until chapter 13 that he becomes the focus of the book. For now it’s Peter, amidst a tour that has taken him to Lydda and now to Joppa, reaching to all people — those who speak the same language and follow the same customs, yes, but no less to those who speak the language of the Gentiles and still need to be able to call on the name of someone who knows and follows Jesus.

That was Tabitha. Tabitha called Dorcas was a follower of Jesus. We hear about it right from the start of the story: “In Joppa, there was a disciple, whose name was Tabitha…” and what we can’t see in English is that this is the lone time in all of the New Testament that the feminine form of the noun, “disciple,” is used. There were plenty of women who were disciples, but this is the only time the feminine form is used, because Tabith was that kind of emblematic follower of Jesus.

Both of her names are translations of the word, gazelle. And so she had been swift to follow in the way of Christ’s love. She had been graceful in sharing with those around her from her resources and gifts. “She was devoted to good works and acts of charity,” the text says. She was faithful and steady. She was known especially for the fine clothing she made for the members of her community, but every community of faith has people like her. She was the one who knitted prayer shawls for people experiencing grief, or for the graduates on their way to college. She was the one who made sure that everything was just right for VBS week (our church was full of Tabithas all week long, and will be in the week to come). She was the one who attended to all the details for the mission trip. She was the one who did a hundred other unseen things that mark the lives of Christ’s disciples.

Tabitha was especially committed to the vulnerable women of her community — the widows, for whom the early church was especially concerned. Even today her name lives on in “Dorcas Societies” founded by Christian women as vehicles for serving those poor and overlooked. You can imagine her studying scripture and seeing the call to care for the widows, and knowing it was a call to her. The poet George MacDonald imagines her standing by and hearing Jesus say, “I was naked and you clothed me” and hearing in that clearly the call to go home to Joppa and prepare garments for those in need, seeing them as she saw Jesus’ own self. (1)

So as Peter arrives, the evidence of her discipleship is clear. It is draped about all of those gathered, the way my grandfather’s wood carvings stay close on my table, reminding of his careful, meticulous, purposeful love or the way my late college professor’s books fill my shelves, where I can pull them out not only to study, but to remember the one who so inspired me to preach and teach and love and follow Jesus. In the same way, these tunics and scarves are held close, enfolding all of those who remember Tabitha and are telling the stories of what her faith has meant to them — stories that remind us that to be a disciple is not always to announce the good news at the center of the city like Peter, but also to know the presence of the Spirit in the quiet, steady work of making clothing and tunics. The work of the Spirit is not only the dramatic fire and wind, but sometimes the private, committed work of needle and thread. See, before Peter ever arrived in Joppa, there was already a disciple there.

Of course, as we know all too well and mercilessly, faithfulness doesn’t protect Tabitha from falling ill and dying. Good people — even the best people — also die. As the poet Louise Glück has written, “You will not be spared, nor will what you love be spared.” (2)Those who loved Tabitha called Dorcas are in the throes of such grief, and they can’t accept the death of one they loved so much, so they send for the one who’d just healed a paralyzed man in nearby Lydda. And verse 39 says that Peter got up and went to them.

What strikes me the most is that Peter doesn’t hesitate. He responds immediately and sets out. His actions are deliberate and steady throughout the scene, almost like one who has himself seen resurrection before, and knows what it can mean in the face of all of the world’s evidence of death. As he walks those 11 miles, he’s surely remembering all those times before. He remembers standing near as Mary says to Jesus, “If you had been here, my brother, Lazarus would not have died.” He thinks of standing there and watching as the widow at Nain wept at her son’s funeral procession and wondered what would happen to her. He recalls how Jesus himself had once been interrupted along the way by a desperate father, Jairus, and how Jesus had gone straight away and followed him to his child’s side. “What was it he said?” Peter thinks to himself, then rehearsing the words beneath his breath, “Talitha cum… Talitha cum…”

Yes, Peter has seen plenty of death, as most of us have, too.The great preacher, Rev. Dr. James Forbes, tells of how he has struggled with healing stories, and especially this one. Dr. Forbes grew up in the Holiness tradition, and if you didn’t believe in healing you didn’t belong. But he went to Union Theological Seminary, and he became confused. One day he was in a rotation of Clinical Pastoral Education, and he was given the definition of clinical death. His supervisor said it was when a person had “flat-lined,” and Dr. Forbes thought, “Flat-lined? Well, I preach to people like that every week!”

Beyond his quip, he meant something deeper. He meant church is full of people who know death. People who are dying, really really dying in all of the ways that a person can experience death, or a soul can be crushed, or a life can be overwhelmed with hopelessness. The walking dead. The “mostly dead,” to quote “Miracle Max” of The Princess Bride. Those who are encased in their tombs. Those who are losing the color and vitality in their lives. People like us, in other words.

And Peter had been that way before. More than anything, he’s probably walking those miles, quickening his pace, remembering what it was like when he was mostly dead, or when he wanted to die at least — when he realized he was not as strong and brave as he once believed he was. He had once been ready to give it all to the cause, yet he had crumbled beneath the pressure of Jesus’ trial and denied him to the echo of the rooster crow, and he felt like going away somewhere and dying, falling asleep in a tomb and not waking up. And Jesus got up and came straight away to him, no delay, and said by the shores of the sea, “Peter, you can still feed my lambs. Peter, you can still care for my people. Imperfect though you are, you can still be the one with whom I will build my church. You can still speak the words of new life.”

See, Peter knows death, but he knows resurrection, too. So Peter goes as fast as he can, arriving as they hold out their arms to him, draped in their grief. He enters the house and it must have looked familiar and felt familiar, with death hanging in the air. And perhaps with some echo of “Lazarus, come out” in his ears, or perhaps with some memory of the particular motions and power of Jesus in his mind, or maybe with some memory of “Little girl, rise” as Jesus had said to Jairus daughter, or with some memory of the very resurrection and new life of Jesus that could not be held by the power of death, Peter says with a new kind of boldness and volume, “Tabitha, get up.”

Perhaps we can’t hear it, but these words are familiar. When Jesus raises Jairus’ daughter, he uses those Aramaic words, “Talitha cum…” and Peter surely would have spoken Aramaic to Tabitha. His words to her, then, would have been “Tabitha cum” — only one letter different than Jesus’ own words of life. See, Peter knows the words. Peter knows the power of resurrection. Peter is doing now what Jesus once did.

This is the first such miracle performed by any of the apostles after the resurrection of Jesus, showing that the power of resurrection has been passed on to the movement of those following in the Way, and all these years later it has been passed on to Christ’s church. And I wonder if that’s why we so often forget it. Because in this case it is not a miracle of Jesus, but a miracle of the church that Jesus leaves behind. Tabitha is lifted to life by someone like us. It’s much easier to imagine such power distant from us, coming from the person of Jesus rather than through our very lives. It’s far easier, actually, to just leave it all up to Jesus, rather than responding to the desperate need and urgent cries, “Please come to us without delay.” Yes, perhaps we easily forget or overlook this story, because it’s a story about us.

It’s about the challenge to our conventional expectations, and the remarkable movement of the Spirit of God, and the call to people from death into new life, and about how all of that happens now through Christ’s followers. We’re more accustomed to more settled expectations of ourselves, and more conventional forms of discipleship for our church. And I guess Tabitha never had to follow Jesus, she could have left it all up to the others. Peter could have stayed with the fishing nets and left all the preaching and healing and raising to someone else. And the church, could just stay settled, conventional, insular, safe, and totally forget that Jesus has taught us how to say, “Talitha, cum.” Rise. Get up.

My friend, Rev. Heidi Neumark, is Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in New York, and not long ago shared a story of a time when she heard these words of life at her church. Shehad received a Facebook message from a colleague on the other side of the country. He wrote from Los Angeles to tell her about a young woman he knew who was living in Brooklyn with her husband and two young sons. The family had not yet connected to an East Coast church but had reached out to Pastor Neumark’s colleague from what Heidi called “the shadowlands of trauma.”

Their youngest son had a rare, terminal illness, and this Brooklyn-based family was spending nearly all of their time in the pediatric intensive care unit of a Manhattan hospital where their son was receiving care. Heidi Neumark was actually in her own hospital bed when she got this message, having just had surgery. It would be a few weeks before she was able to venture out, so she asked her church’s seminary intern to go to that intensive care unit and visit that family.

The seminarian spent quite a bit of time with them— praying, waiting, weeping, listening, sitting. The young minister helped Charlie, the five-year-old brother, say goodbye. She stayed beside Charlie’s parents as they hung on the edge of impossible decisions. And eventually, Pastor Neumark and the intern did the funeral for this child, his family absolutely breathless with their shock and loss, and little brother, Charlie standing there, hiding behind his parents legs.

Within a few weeks of their unimaginable loss, this family began attending Trinity Church, having now found a church home amidst their grief. Mother, father and 5 yr old Charlie would come, and most Sundays Charlies rarely spoke. He didn’t want to go to Sunday School but would hide behind his dad’s legs, or sit and draw pictures of cars and rockets like the one illustrating a prayer of his that was in the funeral order of worship. It was the prayer Charlie had spoken four days before his brother’s death. “Dear God, please send us a rocket ship so my brother and me can go to the stars.”

Eventually Charlie decided to go to Sunday School with his father sitting nearby. And one Sunday the teacher prepared a lesson on Tabitha. She told this story of Peter raising Tabitha and also of how, after her death, the widows that Tabitha had clothed held her memory close through all the tunics she left behind. The teacher panicked as she told the story. What would Charlie think? How would this 5 yr old boy react? Wouldn’t he wonder why Peter hadn’t shown up for his brother? Wouldn’t he remember how the doctors walked out of that room and said there was nothing more they could do? Why hadn’t God answered his prayers and those of his parents?

And then this quiet little boy, for the first time ever in that church, began to speak. He told the class of preschoolers to second graders that his brother had died, but that Jesus had raised his brother, and that his brother was with Jesus in heaven and that his brother was also still with him. He showed the class a woven bracelet that reminded him of his brother, just as those widows held out their arms, draped in Tabitha’s tunics.

The class sat perfectly still. Every young eye and ear was focused on the testimony of their Sunday School classmate who had walked in the valley of the shadow of death and was now speaking about it. There was one little girl in the class who must have known something of his pain. This little girl, named Heaven, was born with drugs in her system, raised by her grandmother while her mother was in and out of treatment. Heaven spontaneously got up and went over and gave her classmate Charlie a hug. Then following her example, every child in the class got up and, one by one, they hugged their little brother in Christ and his father. (3)

Church is supposed to be the place where people come back to life. And it’s not to be quietly held or safely stored, or kept in one place with those who have some memory of resurrection. Just to underscore this, Acts describes in verse 43 how Peter stays in Joppa at the home of Simon, a tanner. It seems a simple narrative detail, unless you remember that it’s later in the story, on the roof of Simon’s house, where Peter will see a vision that will lead him to welcome Roman soldier, Cornelius, and realize fully that God’s new life is for all people. God’s new life welcomes individuals and communities from every corner of the world, even to the ends of the earth, and still to this day reaches for every one of us and reminds us that amidst death and hopelessness and loss, Jesus has taught us the words to speak: Talitha, cum. Rise. Get up.

  1. “Dorcas” by George MacDonald
  2. “October” byLouise Glück
  3. “Companion to strangers” in Christina Century (February 26, 2014)


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Technical Parameters

Specification Capacity（t/d） Output（t/d） Evaporation Capacity（t/h） Moisture（%) Dryer water(%) Drying temperature（℃） Total installed capacity（kw） Weight（kg） Footprint
DLJG1208 43.7 25.7 0.75 35-50 12-15% (adjustable) 350-650℃ 32 15000 5m*14m
DLJG1408 52.5 30.9 0.90 40 17000 5m*14m
DLJG1610 75.8 44.6 1.30 55 21500 6m*16m
DLJG2010/3 169.0 99.4 2.90 95 26500 8m*16m
DLJG2210/3 186.5 109.7 3.20 100 28500 8m*16m
DLJG2510/3 215.5 126.7 3.70 125 370000 10m*16m
DLJG2512/3 262.2 154.2 4.50 145 41000 10m*18m
DLJG2912/3 317.6 186.8 5.45 165 45500 10m*20m

Performance characteristics

Fast drying and high efficiency

Straw Drying Production Line has the characteristics of high temperature resistance and can dry raw material with high temperature hot air.

Low consumption and low cost

Straw Drying Production Line has strong anti-overload capability, large processing capacity, low material consumption and low drying cost.

Low wear and long life

adopts "centering roller device", which makes the roller and roller ring have linear contact, which greatly reduces wear and power loss.

Low load, no block

new feeding and discharging device, which eliminates the blockage, discontinuity, unevenness and returning of rotary drum dryer, and reduces the load of the dust removal system.

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Greece is one of the most popular holiday and travel destinations. There are many reasons to buy your own property there: the mild Mediterranean climate, the country's unique nature, numerous small islands, the clear blue sea, 300 days of sunshine, beautiful beaches, wonderful houses and the list goes on!

Right now, the timing is great for purchasing homes or apartments in Greece in extremely low prices, cheaper than ever! Properties in Greece are cheaper compared to other southern European countries and this means that getting your dream home is very likely! Property in beautiful countryside, a little away from the hustle and bustle of the city is still easy to find.

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Universal Dimensions of Social Cognition: Warmth & Competence

TRENDS in Cognitive Sciences

TRENDS in Cognitive SciencesSusan T. Fiske, Princeton University
Amy J.C. Cuddy, Northwestern University
Peter Glick, Lawrence University

Like all perception, social perception reflects evolutionary pressures. In encounters with conspecifics, social animals must determine, immediately, whether the ‘other’ is friend or foe (i.e. intends good or ill) and, then, whether the ‘other’ has the ability to enact those intentions. New data confirm these two universal dimensions of social cognition: warmth and competence. Promoting survival, these dimensions provide fundamental social structural answers about competition and status.

People perceived as warm and competent elicit uniformly positive emotions and behavior, whereas those perceived as lacking warmth and competence elicit uniform negativity. People classified as high on one dimension and low on the other elicit predictable, ambivalent affective and behavioral reactions. These universal dimensions explain both interpersonal and intergroup social cognition.

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The month of May in the Philippines

Senior citizens will remember the former Senator Raul Manglapus who in his stint in the senate proposed for the abolition of fiestas. Many Filipinos only shrugged their shoulders. Majority didn’t agree with the idea. In this month of May, fiestas are being celebrated but not much pomp as it was in yesteryears. And also in the month at least every three years, a certain Monday is reserved for elections.

In my youth, in my hometown of Porac, me and my friends chased brass bands as they marched along the streets. If I were a painter, I could draw memorable scenes which are still deeply etched in my memory, and for sure will provoke good memories to many people of my age.

Fiestas are still being held today in many cities, towns and barangays all over the country but they somehow lost the appeal due to the realities of today where people prefer to go to malls, where they can have those affordable buffet, ‘eat all you can’, instead of looking for kins and friends’ houses in celebration.

It is in this month of May when fiestas are being held in many parts. And fiestas being held are no longer grand. And as a tradition though, it refuses to die.

Sta. Rita town will celebrate it on the 22nd and the City of San Fernando on May 30. I remember those particular dates because I accompanied my mother Beatriz aka Indang Beth to her friends houses in their fiesta celebrations.

May is also the month of Santacruzan. There was a time when writers, described this month as the ‘merry month of May’.

It was because of the festivals held in May. The fiestas, coronations of beauty queens, the serenatas of competing bands, the musical jamborees on makeshift stages, the amateur contests, and of course the santacruzan.

Santacruzan is also called ‘Flores de Mayo’, meaning flowers in May. It is some kind of a religious and historical pageant featuring the Reyna Helena and his escort Constantino, and some sagalas in tow. The Reyna Helena is a personification of Helena of Constantinople who brought with her a crucifix and in search of the Holy Grail. The Reyna Helena almost always the most beautful pick among the local lasses. Or sometimes hermano mayoras and mayores import a movie starlet or a beauty queen to be the Helena.

Normally the parade was backed by brass band playing, and a choir singing ‘dios te salve’, the Spanish version of Hail Mary. It will be culminated by a ‘ pabitin’ where a bamboo pole smeared with grease and with prize money waiting at the top for whoever can pick it.

There are still two weeks in this month of May, and maybe some cities, towns and barangays are mulling plans to hold their respective santacruzans. I googled on the internet who should be participating in the Flores De Mayo for reference and authenticity, and here is the list:

Matusalem, bearded with age. Reyna Banderada, queen with a banner. Three aetas, dark skinned indigenous people.

Reyna Mora, represents Muslim Filipinos. Reyna ng Saba( Sheba), represents unnamed queen who visited King Solomon. Ruth and Noemi, ancestresses of King David. Reyna Judith, the biblical widow. Reyna Esther, the Jewish queen of Persia. Cleopatra, the famous last pharaoh of Egypt.

Samaritana, the woman at the well who conversed with Christ. Sta Veronica, the woman who wiped the face of Christ.

Tres Marias, three Marys associated with the entombment of Christ. Reyna Fe, Esperanza and Caridad, representing faith, hope and charity. Reyna Sentenciada,her hands bound with rope stands for the early Christians. Reyna de las Flores, she carries a bouquet of flower. Reyna Helena, the last member in the procession, For further authenticity, get a Goido, the moorish highwayman who with his troops trying to halt the procession.


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Michael Fairman (born February 25, 1934 New York City, New York, USA) is an American actor, and writer best known for his various roles during his long career, which started when he was 31 years old. This includes the role of Nick Szabo on the daytime drama, Ryan's Hope, his recurring role as Department Inspector Knelman on Cagney & Lacey, and the recurring role of Patrick Murphy on CBS's daytime drama, The Young and the Restless.

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