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Monday, September 28, 2015

The Last Step

Y bueno, this week flew by, every day is just flying by faster.

Just so ya know, we didn't have transfers!!!  I get to have one more change with Hermana Cordova.  I am so happy, we have so much to do and Salado is just the greatest.

We had a really productive week, the Lord has blessed us with so many prepared people, and we were able to find a family that went to church on Sunday!  We had contacted a house and left a card, and then we asked for referrals from a member and she gave us the name of the woman who lived in this house...we were like um yep that would be a sign. Her name is Doris, and her daughters went to the talent show that we had last week, and it was just awesome.  We were kind of bumming around Saturday night, it had rained all day (it was WONDERFUL) and everyone was cooped up inside, so we decided to go and try to get in and contact the referral.  We went and clapped and her daughters let us in, and we had a lesson with them and with her nieces.  The next morning, we had to take a bus to go get some less actives and investigators, drop them off in the church, and then run to go get this family.  It was nuts, because we were like running to their house and we saw this group of people pass by and it was Doris with her nephew, Eduardo, niece Vanessa, daughters Jessica and Johanna.  I just about died of a heart attack. They had a great experience and we are going to have a FHE with them this week.

Also, we are still working with the Hermana Martinez and her son, Alejandro.  He has a baptismal date for October 10th, pray for him and her, please please please.  We are trying hard to activate his family so that they can get to the temple.

We are working with another lady, Victoria, who really wasn't progressing.  We weren't sure what to teach her, and honestly, we were going to drop her, but we prayed during weekly planning and we both thought about the book My Family, that talks about family history.  We had a lesson with her and she was so excited, she is going to talk with her sister so that she can fill it out (her sister is going to be visiting her, so that is why she can't go to church.  Might as well do something productive).

Today we went to the temple with Ramona and Lucia (recent converts).  My companion and I bore our testimonies and I felt the spirit so strong.  I love the temple.  I wish we could go more often, but that is okay.  Something that I have realized is that everything we do in the church, everything that we study, learn, memorize, feel, whatever, everything points to the temple.  Everything we have to endure is worth it when we understand and make eternal covenants with our Heavenly Father.  I love that so much.  That is the difference between the LDS church and the thousands of others: we will be together for the eternities.  What a blessing.

I love you, and I hope that you all have a good week!

Hermana Farish

Monday, September 21, 2015

Talent Show

Well flip.

This week was nuts. But it was awesome.  To try to explain it I am just going to go day by day, starting with Wednesday (because it was halfway normal up to that point).

Wednesday-we had piano class and a rehearsal with the primary for the talent show, and it went pretty well.  We had assigned a recent convert to find a little sketch theater thing that they could do, and we had the help of Hermana Martinez (who is coming back to church...YAY!!!) with the decorations and the costumes.  We ended our little theater thing with the primary song "Mother I Love You".  It was so cute.  The crazy thing from this day was trying to coordinate everything between teaching appointments and class and all of that fun shtuff.

Thursday-was slightly normal as well, we started the day in a place in our area called Carmen Soler. It is an asentamiento, or in other words, government land lots, and it is the farthest away from us.  A sister who lives there is Hermana Piñanes. She was baptized about 14 years ago, and was sealed with her husband and children about 8 years ago.  Her husband stopped going to church after being sealed, and doesn't want anything to do with the gospel.  But Hermana Piñanes is awesome, she is handicapped and can't walk without the help of crutches and some braces on her legs.  She was inactive for several years, and we, being new, had no idea that she was a member (or that she existed, for that matter).  All of the sudden, one Sunday, she just showed up at church.  The amazing thing about that is that she can't get up into the bus by herself, and the majority of the time doesn't have the money to pay the bus, but she came.  We have been working with her ever since and basically all of the investigators that we have in Carmen Soler are her references, and she is always offering to make visits with us, even though she can't really walk all that well.  It is a huge testimony to me of every member a missionary, even if you can't even walk.  It doesn't matter.

Friday-Another rehearsal for the talent show, a ton of stuff to do.  We had an awesome lesson with Hermana Martinez and her son, Alejandro, who has a date for October 10th.  We have been trying really hard to find the way to help them feel the Spirit again, and we were talking and we showed a picture of Jesus Christ when He will come again.  She looked at the picture and began to cry, and told us that beause of that picture she had made the decision to be baptized.  She had had a dream with that picture, and she had in her arms her baby that had died.  When the missionaries showed her that picture, she knew that she needed to be baptized.  The spirit was so so strong and it was wonderful to see her start to feel that again.

Saturday-loco talent show.  Everything went well, there were a lot of people who came, and we died in bed afterwards we were so tired.  Haha, we did a skit that I had seen when I was at Snow in a talent show of the YSA, where someone is preparing themselves for the day, but there is another person behind them who puts their arms in front, so the arms of the other person are putting on the makeup of the person in the makeup turns out really good looking.  Ya, hard to explain, but it turned out funny.

Sunday-em...this was kind of a disappointment, because there were several people who we are bringing back to church who came, but then out of the blue some other active families decided to travel and whatever, so the attendance went down...we were like WWWWWHHHHHYYYYYY???

Sorry this is so long, but all in all, it was a good week.  I love being a missionary here in Paraguay!!

Hermana Farish

Monday, September 14, 2015

The Most Unexpected Testimony I Have Ever Heard!

This week was so so so so so so so so crazy.  The time is flying by, and I don't like it.  It seems like there isn't enough time to do everything that we need to.

This Wednesday we went to the church to have piano class and there was no electricity.  We were like oh flip.  There were a ton of people there so we put the chalkboard outside and my companion and an elder had flashlights, so we had piano a la flashlight.  It was the greatest class we have ever had:)

Thursday we were stuck with nothing to do at like 8:30 at night, and it was so flipping cold that no one was outside, so we began to knock doors and we were walking past this one house and a man ran out yelling "hermanas, hermanas"!!!  And we were like...yep, drunk man, running away now.  We walked away really fast and he didn't come out of his gate.  Afterwards we felt bad so we went back and clapped and he came out and began to talk to us, 100% drunk and probably high as well, and began to talk about Joseph Smith and the plates and all of that stuff.  He told us that Joseph was a good man, I know that he did good things and a bunch of weird testimony things all bunched together. We will go back with a member to see what his real intentions are.

Another miracle was on Friday, we were walking to contact a new area and we walked past the house of an old contact, Jessica.  We had left a brochure of the Plan of Salvation with her and had tried to return several times, but she was never there or couldn't talk with us.  We felt the "hunch" (Elder Hughes:)) and so we clapped, and she came out and we had an amazing lesson about the necessity of infant baptisms.  She accepted the baptism invitation and we will see her again tomorrow.

Saturday we were feeling a little low, super tired, and we felt like we were lacking in finding quality nuevos (apart from Jessica).  The phone rang and we looked, and lo and behold it was President McMullin.  There are three reasons for which president will call you: 1-special changes, 2-interviews, 3-referrals.  So we had a 66% chance of coming out of it alive.  But as it turns out, President had a referral for us, Javier.  We called him and he committed over the phone to go to church:)  We will be meeting with him afterwards on Sunday.

I GOT YOUR PACKAGE!!!!  AND I LOVED IT SSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!! Seriously, it just made my month.  I loved the cute notes and the pictures and the pillow case and everything about everything was just perfect.  Also, I got a letter from Brynn, could you tell her thank you for me? Cute girl.

Transfers are next week, and I honestly have no idea what is going to happen.  I would be perfectly happy staying with Hermana Cordova another transfer, but I am pretty sure one of us is going to go, I am not sure who.  Everyone is telling me that I am going to be a sister training leader, but I am pretty 100% positive that isn't going to happen.  I dunno, vamos a ver que pasa (we will see what happens). I am trying to have the attitude of "I am here to serve the Lord and what he wants will be what happens" kind of thing.  President was very complimentary in our last interview, and today (totally made me laugh) I greeted Hermana McMullin (President's wife) and she told me, "you look so good!" I laughed and thought, "I will just have to keep gaining weight" :)

And...apart from that, it was a good week.  Haha, I am reading the Book of Mormon and I was in the Isaiah chapters of 2nd Nephi.  About halfway through, I realized that I wasn't learning or understanding anything, even less because it is in Spanish.  So I started again with Isaiah, our relationship is a bit better, and I am going slower and marking all of the times that it refers to the Lord, and other events in the Plan of Salvation.  I realized that if I really, really want to learn something, all I have to do is be diligent and take my time, especially if it happens to be Isaiah in a foreign language:)

Sorry this was so long, but I hope that you all have a good week and that you enjoy the coming fall!!! I love you!

Hermana Farish

Happiness is a sugar overdose!

Hermana Cordova, Hermana Farish, Hermana Francani

Monday, September 7, 2015

Too Many Blessings

We had an awesome week here in Salado...

First off, Wednesday was great because we contacted ALL DAY and literally no one let us in, which was weird because normally the Paraguayans are pretty nice, but not on Wednesdays apparently. was just peachy.  We were thinking, how crazy would it be if someone just came up and said "I would like to be baptized, please".  Later that night we had piano class, and halfway through an inactive sister came in who hasn't stepped in the church for like 15 years because a member stole the title to her land...long story...but she entered with her son and afterwards came up and asked to talk with us.  Her son apparently had asked her to be baptized, and we have begun to understand that you need to be careful with what you say, because someone is always listening....:)

Thursday we had interviews with President McMullin.  We were inside of the church for 7 hours straight, such fun.

This week went really well, and I just felt good.  We have been contacting a ton and we are working. Sometimes it is hard though because the members are the ones who are tempting us to not be obedient.  They have been so accustomed to the elders who haven't been obedient and we have to go in and get home on time and not watch movies and not spend the whole day in one is something that frustrates me, because Paraguay is different than the US..shocker.  We are always moving and shaking and working and playing and DOING SOMETHING: here it is like...sit down for 5 hours and drink terere...and to a certain point we have to take a chill pill and slow it down, but we also have to do our job and be obedient.  There are so many times when my Paraguayan side is taking it out on my US roots, and it is hard.  But I know how it should be, and that a lot of times church policies and rules and programs just don't work here in Paraguay.  They are so ....lazy.  Haha, I still have a lot to learn about patience.  But other than that, I am doing well...until I read that you guys had gone to the cabin and it was 52 is like 100 here...dangit.  But oh well, I am going to come home a mexican blonde because I will be so so so so tan with some freaking awesome lines...super attractive.

Friday was interesting, we started to contact and we contacted a house with a guy that is 100 percent anti-Mormon.  He came out and began to bash the US and Joseph Smith and the plates and that the Mormon church didn't come from Christ and how you would have to be stupid to join and all of that fun stuff, and it was just interesting to me to see that the majority of the people don't know what they are talking about, and that every once in a while, we need to kneel down and ask again to verify and strengthen our own testimonies, so that when we have to give them, we are ready and prepared.

Another little milagro (miracle) was that we had 10 investigators in church yesterday.  We began to count and we just kept finding more and more...I don't know what happened this week to change so much but the work in in Salado is being hastened, and we are so excited to keep going.

I hope that you all have a good week!  Be happy and obedient!

Hermana Farish


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Thursday, October 30, 2014

Another amazing week! This is my last Pday in the MTC! So crazy! I´m so so excited to enter the field, but I know I´ll miss the mtc and my distrct/companions so much. This time in the CCM has been hard but I´ve learned and grown so much.
This week on Tuesday a member of the First Quorum of the 70 came and spoke to us. He´s the Area President. The devo is always in spanish and so the North Americans always get headsets so we can understand. But this week after like 2 minutes I realized that the headphones and the translation were bothering me. So I took them off and understood EVERYTHING!  And toward the end of his abolutely amazing talk, I looked down at my notes and realized that I had written them all in Spanish! I didn´t even realize that I was understanding as well as I was and that I was writing my notes in Spanish. The gift of tongues is real guys.
Saturday was without a doubt the best day I´ve had in the MTC. We were just sitting in class and Elder Carter and I noticed a bunch of super cute latino kids walking past our window into the soccer field. And then about 10 minutes later Hermana Rivera told us to go out to the field. Our district walks into the field and we see so so many kids playing. Probably like 60 or 70 little kids. And then they all saw us and starting screaming and rushing toward us. They swarmed us all, just screaming and so excited. So we all just kind of seperated and met all these little kids. I was just surrounded by these sweet children trying to hug me and kiss my cheeks and hold my hands. They were just so excited to see us because we were missionaries and they thought we were so cool because we were from the United States.  I was just surrounded by these kids. And moms would pull me over to their children and ask me to pose with them for pictures. I have never felt so much love in my entire life. Just surrounded by these wonderful kids with such sweet spirits and I could feel their love for me. I was just so full of love for them even though we could barely communicate. I was standing with a few of my elders, and we just looked at eachother and said that we were so happy and so full of love for these kids that we were all about to cry. It was so amazing.
I don´t have a lot of time, but as usual I just want you all to know that I love you so much!
Wish me luck as I enter the mission field this week!
Hermana Marshall

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Week 4!

Another amazing week here at the CCM! I can´t believe I only have 2 weeks left!
For the last 2 weeks we had a trio of Latina hermanas in our room and I grew to love them so much. The Latinas are so sweet and so humble. Hermana Colkuehuanca (from Trujillo) was truly the most pure and innocent person I have ever met. She's a recent convert. Her whole life she had had a desire to be close to God and to serve him so she was preparing to be a nun. This girl literally wanted to be a nun. So sweet. And then she was introduced to the gospel and was so excited to learn that she could serve our Heavenly Father as a missionary. Also she is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen in my life. Literally looks like Pocahontas. She was the most Christlike person I´ve ever met in my life.
Another amazing latino who humbled me so much is Elder Fuentes. He´s from Ilo which is in my mission. He´s 26. He worked for 10 years earning 20 soles (about 8 dollars) a day to be able to come on a mission. I was his fake investigator one time and his lesson was incredible. He has a testimony of gold. Haha funny story about him, he would always come and talk to me and he would call me Courtney (which probably isn't okay but he doesnt speak a word of english and I didn´t know how to correct him haha so I just let him) and before he left for the field he found me and asked for my email address. He told me he would write me and asked if I would write him back. Haha a couple other latino elders did that too but I don´t remember their names. The Latino are so awesome though.
A few days ago I had to teach lessons SOLO to the LATINOS. Haha it was terrifying but I managed! My spanish is improving but I still don´t feel super confident.
On Sunday we got to watch "Meet the Mormons". It was so good! I encourage all of you to watch it. We also watched "Ephraim's Rescue" which I had somehow never seen before and it was so good.
Just a few random things I´ve learned about my mission and just Peru in general:
We get 5 soles a day in the field (like 2 dollars haha).
Apparently my mission president is super chill and let's us watch Disney movies on Pday
You can't flush toilet paper in Peru. You throw it away. I'm talkin 1 and 2. Hahaha so gross. The bathrooms smell great.
My mission is called the "Mission of the Valient". Apparently everyone in Arequipa is prideful and stubborn. It's the least baptizing mission in Peru.
This week was pretty uneventful but still awesome as always! Today was great of course because it's Pday. I love doing the temple session in Spanish. And after the temple we did our shopping like we always do and my scripture cases were finally ready! I love them! I wish I was allowed to send a picture.
Anyway I don´t have much more time but I love you all! Thank you so much for all the love and support! This mission has already been such a blessing in my life and I´m so happy that I made the decision to serve a mission.
Love, Hermana Marshall

Sunday, October 19, 2014

Halfway Done!

Another great week at the CCM! I feel like last Pday was yesterday. Time seriously flies here. I'm still happy and loving it! 3 weeks from now I'll be in the field!  So crazy!
I just want all of you to know how grateful I am to be here. It is such a blessing. Being a missionary and wearing this tag brings me so much joy. I've learned so much in these short 3 weeks. I've prayed more in the last 21 days then I have in my entire life. And I have seen so many of those prayers answered. I know that God listens to our prayers and that He really does love us.
We've been teaching like crazy! We're on our 3rd and 4th investigators right now. We learned a lot from the first 2. One of our investigators right now is an alchoholic so that's interesting for me. But I really do love teaching. You don't really realize how much you love the gospel and how much you KNOW that these things are true until you're trying to teach someone else and bring that same joy into their life.
So we missionaries are super weird and we have a ton of phrases that we just directly translated from English to Spanish. Our teachers thought we were crazy at first but now we have all of them saying them.
1. ¡Que en el Mundo?! (what in the world?!)
2. Por el Amor! (For the love!)
3. Toda dia cada dia. (All day everyday)
Haha missionaries are so weird.
Also I don´t know if I told you this but our maestros dont speak any English. Haha it's pretty hilarious actually. But I love them and have learned so much from them.
I´m pretty bummed because usually missionaries here get to go proselyting once a week in lima for like 5 hours, but as of the week we got here they're not lettting us go anymore. It's too dangerous. There were just a few scary incidents in the weeks before we came so we´re not allowed to anymore.
Pdays are awesome! We have to wake up an hour earlier but it's so worth it. We take a bus to the temple. The bus situation is seriously so hilarious. LIterally there are like 40 missionaries standing on the side of the street trying to wave down a bus and then a bus pulls over and it´s always already super full. But we get on anyway! Haha I wish you could see us all on that tiny bus. Also it's lame because the hermanas have to be with elders all the time in Lima so we don't get murdered or whatever. Haha I really don't think it's that dangerous here but they're just being cautious. Anyway the temple is absolutely beautiful, and I love listening to the session in Spanish. and then after the temple we have like an hour and a half to shop around! It's so much fun! I love gettting to wander the city and eat the delicious street vendor food that we're not supposed to eat and will probably give us diarrhea. Haha it's so fun!
Anyway I'm out of time but I love you all! Thanks for all the love and support!
Hermana Bread.

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Another great week!

   Another great week at the CCM!! It's crazy how time flies here. I've already been a missionary for 2 weeks and I love it so much! Every day feels so long but the weeks go by so fast. I cant even tell you how awesome the MTC is. Sometimes it's exhausting and overwhelming and stressful, but it's also so amazing and so fun. I love all the missionaries here. Especially my district. I laugh so so much with them. But don't worry I learn too. Haha. Our elders are so awesome and such great examples. I´m learning so much every day.
   We just got new roommates. I was so sad when our old roommates left, they were my best friends here. Every night I would just talk and laugh with them until we fell asleep. But last night we got new Hermanas! A trio of Latinas! THey´re so sweet. Of course there's a bit of a language barrier but I know that we'll learn so much with them.
   We have 2 investigators that we teach here. Ary and Rodrigo. We teach everyday, sometimes twice a day. My companions get frustrated with me sometimes because I tend to take over and do all the teaching, which is a problem, especially with a trio. Haha i just get so excited and have so much that I want to say and teach. We're slowly getting better and more comfortable with teaching. I absolutely love teaching.
   So just to give you an idea of what you do here I'll tell you what an average day is like:
Wake up at 6. Breakfast at 645. classes until lunch. classes for an hour after lunch, then physical activity for an hour. then more classes until dinner. and then more classes until bed. Hahaha the days are long but they're good. I'm learning so much!
   PDAYS are so awesome! we wake up early and do a session at the temple, then we have 2 hours to shop. Today we went to distribution center and bought scriptures. and then to the temple store (a sketchy looking place where they sell the cool scriptures cases and llama ties and other random missionary-church stuff like that. The whole bus situation is hilarious-I wish I had time to tell you about it. And then we come back to the CCM after almost dying on the bus, eat lunch, do laundry, and then email. And then classes start again at like 345. oh we also go to either Metros (ghetto peruvian walmart) or tottus (not as ghetto pervuian target) haha. and that's where we buy random things that we need and candy and stuff. im addicted to casinos and sublimes. and I always buy a coke zero of course.
   I dont think i will ever again crave meat or rice. hahaha literally every meal. but its okay its pretty good usually. and they always have fruit. granadías are my absolute favorite. look them up. they´re super weird but delicious. it looks like an orange on the outside but then you crack it open and its filled with little fish eyeball looking things. Haha sounds so gross but I love them. and then delicious fresh juice and always dessert. And of course the bread. Hahaha. And no dad no rodents yet ;)
   OH and of course im a missionary so i have to talk about how amazing conference was. i have never gotten so much out of conference. I loved every second and was writing pages and pages of notes the whole time. It was absolutely amazing. Conference is like Christmas at the ccm.
   Anyway I'm loving it here!
   I love all of you and I'm so so grateful for your emails! It makes my day logging on and seeing so many emails from all of the people that I love.
Hermana Marshall.

Friday, October 3, 2014

    There´s so much to say and it´s been such a crazy week but I don´t have a lot of time. There´s so much I want to tell you guys so hopefully I can type fast.
    I can´t believe it´s already been a week! Actually i can believe it beacuse it feels like I've been here for months. Haha but I love love love the CCM (Missionary Training Center).
I am so so happy! Not once this week have I felt sad or homesick or stressed, which is just a huge confirmation to me that this is exactly where I´m supposed to be. I have 2 companions, Hermana Brogan and Hermana Escobar. They are so sweet and they teach me a lot. I´m kind of the loud, outgoing one in our trio so I do most of the talking and most of the teaching and stuff but I don´t mind! The Spirit has really helped me to be outgoing and confident which is something that I prayed for a lot. So God really does answer our prayers. Also the Gift of Tongues is so so real. I´ve seen it working so much in me and in my district. My distrcit is my trio and 6 elders who are so so awesome and keep me laughing all the time. But it´s been so amazing to see these missionaries who were struggling so so much the first few days with Spanish and had almost no experience with spanish and now, after 7 days, they are doing so so well. We can all have basic conversations, pray, and testify of the basic doctrines of the gospel in Spanish. And I really have been blessed and remember almost all of the Spanish that I´ve taken in school. Our maestros only speak spanish and i can understand like 90% of what they say, and I´m able to translate for the class and help the other missionaries when they don´t know what a word or phrase means or how to say something. Elder Carter (our district leader) and Hermana Brogan have about as much spanish experience as I do so the three of us are able to make up for whatever the other ones don´t know, if that makes sense. I love missionaries here. There are so great and so helpful.
    Today was Pday so we got to go the the temple! And we had an hour and a half to walk around lima and shop! Everything here is so cheap and Lima is so cool! The elders jsut took us on a tour of everywehrer that they usually go and helped us out. I bought a super cool soccer jersery for like 20 soles and delicious peruvian candy and Coke Zero (not diet coke but still hallelujah) for like 12 soles at some sketchy supermarket.
    There are wayy more elders here then sisters. And a lot of Latino misionaries. Most of the tinos are from Colombia, Peru, or Bolivia and either going to Peru or Bolivia. But there are so nice. During physical activity time everyday we usually play volleyball with the tinos and they are so nice to us and help us with spanish. and we help them with english.
    The food here is so so good! I was way surprised. Breakfast is kinda gross so I usually just eat the rolls and toast. The rolls are TO DIE FOR. Hahaha they call me Hermana Bread. The next time you guys see me I´ll be obese but it´s so worth it. Seriously I eat so many rolls. And for lunch and dinner it´s always rice and some form of meat. It looks gross but tastes pretty good most of the time. And the rule here is that you have to eat all of the food whether you like it or not. Haha what everyone says about the food is [Don´t look at the food, just eat it]. That basically sums it up. and they always have super good dessert. And always delicious juice! So much juice!
    Oh a random rule here is that we aren´t allowed to send pictures while we´re at the CCM, so sorry.
    Hahaha and my maestros are hilarious. The like to make fun of us and can hardly speak English. They always say ¨Qué en el Mundo?!"
    Anyway I´m super happy and I love it here! I´ve never prayed so much in my life, and never seen so many of my prayers answered. And I know that this is exactly where I´m supposed to be and that this experience will bless my life so much. I love you and thank you for all the love and support!
-Hermana Marshall or Hermana Bread (literally what they call me).

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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Confession. Chapter Two.

I just realized something else that could be interpreted as creepy. When my friends create a facebook page for their wedding and everyone jots down their addresses I like to type them into google maps and see what their house looks like. Ah, it's good to get that off my chest.

Thank you. I will go now.

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Thursday, February 03, 2011

Chicago's Third Big Blizzard Day 2 - Neighbors 1: Weather 0

The thirty below Hawk froze the starter on the ancient but reliable MDT Snow-blower. Fifty- eight year old muscle and lard hefted chunks and blocks of white cake along with the younger bones and sinews of my fireman neighbor. Together we opened parking spots and driveways.

Western Ave. is as open as an old man's fly.

108th Street is open, thanks to 19th Ward Streets and San Superman Steve Riordan. The guy never sleeps. Troops of St. Cajetan eighth graders picked up some dough doing the stoops and stairs and gangways of the elderly and St. Rita bound 8th grader Joe Rohan's crew cleared driveways of single moms and folks caught out in the suburbs who have yet to make it home.

Morgan Park/St. Cajetan 1; Blizzard 2011 ain't no thang!

Neighbors take care of one another and kicked the Weather's Rump . . .again.

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Monday, January 4, 2010

My Friend Linda

Raising goats has given me many friends, but Linda Graham particularly has touched me deeply.  Her Nigerians, LaMancha's & Mini LaMancha's couldn't have had a better caregiver.   She loved her chickens, loved to cook, and once it got warm enough to dig in the dirt, she was out planting anything she could.    She had an infectious laugh, a tendency to look on the briaght side of things, and had a heart of gold.

I never had the pleasure of actually meeting Linda face to face; but between our emails and phone calls back and forth we were close and am grateful that I knew her.  I miss her deeply.

Linda Marie Graham (1952-2009) Share E-mail Visit Guest Book

Linda Marie Graham, 57, of Sherman passed away on Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2009 at her residence. Services will be held at 10:30 a.m., Monday, Jan. 4 at Dannel Funeral Home Chapel. Officiating will be Randy Thompson of Tom Bean Baptist Church, with interment following in West Hill Cemetery. The family will receive visitors at the funeral home on Sunday from 3-5 p.m.

Linda was born March 9, 1952 in Petoskey, Michigan, to George and Louise Berger Luther. She attended Denison schools. On March 8, 2008, she married T.J. Graham, although they had been together since March 15, 1995. Linda befriended the personnel from the 240th Assault Helicopter Company. She designed and maintained the website to tribute their service in the Vietnam conflict. An outstanding homemaker, Linda was the best cook and had the greenest thumb. She was known as the most down-to-earth person.

Linda is survived by her husband; father, George Luther of Waco; mother Louise Curtiss of Manistee, Mich.; sons, Cody Calhoun and wife Melinda of Benton, Ark., and Daniel Graham and wife Stacy of Maybank; daughters, Kris Baur and husband Kirk of McKinney, and Nycol Mosley and husband Michael of Melissa; brother, David Luther and wife Tessie of Grant, Ala.; sisters Janice Thompson and husband Don of Sherman, Eileen Breedlove and husband Guy of Quitman, Cindy Plocher and husband Tony of Quitman, Karen Collins and husband Mark of Quinlan, Sandra Keeley and husband Neal of Draper, Utah; and 13 grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be T.J. Graham, Michael Mosley, Kyle Baur, Don Thompson, Toby Farnham, and Kenny Farnham.

Memorials may be made to Home Hospice of Grayson County, 505 W. Center St., Sherman, TX 75090-7827.

Published in The Herald Democrat on January 3, 2010 print

Mary Humphrey said...

Such a beautiful tribute to your beautiful friend, Linda. It sounds like she was a special person that touched many lives. God bless.

Hidden Brook Farm said...

Thank you Mary, she was a just a good gal...she use to be on Goat Chat some...her ID was TexomaCaprines.

~Tonia said...

I am sorry for your loss.

FC Dairy Goats said...

She was a wonderful friend. Kind and caring. A true friend who will be missed greatly. Im going to miss her so much.

Jennifer said...

I am so sorry for the loss of your friend. I do remember Linda from GC and I am sorry I did not get to know her better. She sounds like a wonderful person and a good friend.

Hidden Brook Farm said...

She thought a lot of you Amy and enjoyed seeing you choosing & mastering each path you have set your heart on to do.

Thank you Tonia & Jennifer.


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It seems like the whole world is talking about Ayahuasca these days. Once a mystery medicine sought out by intrepid Anthropologists and wayfaring authors who had to bribe locals and follow tip-offs to find a shaman willing to prepare the brew, it’s now sold in plastic Coke bottles by hustlers on the streets of Peru and Colombia. Those original Western seekers believed Ayahuasca could give you telepathic abilities, but you don’t need any special foresight to realise that drinking a bottle of murky, theoretically psychedelic liquid sold to you by a stranger probably isn’t the smartest move you’ll ever make, especially if – as many stories recount – they then leave you alone for a few hours to have the ‘trip’ and then toss you out on the street, regardless of the state you’re in.

But we can’t just blame the street-hawkers; they wouldn’t exist if there wasn’t a demand. Ayahuasca tourism is a growing trend, with increasing numbers of people – inspired by trite media and movie coverage of this sacred plant medicine – travelling to South America to get ‘high’ rather than to get healed; there’s even stories of people taking Ayahuasca as a party drug, although I’m not sure what kind of party involves projectile vomiting.

But despite its growing prominence, even if you do your research and find a responsible place to work with this profoundly (inner) eye-opening medicine, the general picture of what drinking Ayahuasca is like – especially the difficult process of integration afterwards, which can last for months – is often not only limited, but positively misleading.

About 18 months ago I made the decision to travel to Peru and drink Ayahuasca. I’ve suffered with depression for most of my life, even attempting suicide on a couple of occasions, so when I began to hear tales of people being cured of addiction, depression, or anxiety issues after a single ceremony (not just improved, helped, or made to feel a little better – cured), I knew I had to find out more.

I did my research; I listened to dozens of personal accounts; I read and watched interviews with the shaman I decided to work with; and I read half a dozen books on Ayahuasca. Surely that made me prepared, right?

And not just because it’s impossible to be truly prepared for a psychedelic which hauls you through the doors of perception and unceremoniously throws your sense of self and reality off the edge of the world. No – there ended up being quite a list of things I wish I’d known before I set out to meet Mother Ayahuasca. Some were pleasant revelations, but others were more serious. So I’ve gathered them together here to help people be at least a little more prepared than I was. Like a bucket of water over the head, it’s still going to make you jump, but hopefully you’ll be a little more ready for it.

#1. Everything You Expect of Ayahuasca Will Be Wrong

This is a tough one to get your head around, because expecting the unexpected is still an expectation. But just as hearing the plot of a great movie is a far cry from seeing, experiencing and feeling it, the same applies, on an exponentially greater scale, to the difference between hearing other people’s accounts and drinking Ayahuasca yourself. Especially if you’ve never taken a psychedelic before, conventional language is about as close to the experience as a child’s drawing of a snowflake is to being in the middle of a blizzard. I’m not trying to make things sound scary; the point is only that it’s important to recognise that you inevitably do have expectations and that you must be willing to let them go. That being said…

#2. Letting Go May Be The Biggest Challenge

In my first ceremony I found myself facing a huge demonic wall covered in gnashing teeth. I knew that the insights I needed were on the other side of the wall, but clearly my mind wasn’t keen on letting me past its toothy defences.

I was trapped in a nightmarish series of abstract images pulsing in lurid neon; I was completely overwhelmed by the visuals and the sensations. But the real problem was my desperate attempt to press ‘pause’ on the experience and try to understand it then and there. What did that mean? No, wait, can I just look back at that again? What does this mean? I’d heard so many people tell stories of visions which seemed to make perfect narrative sense that I was sure things were somehow going to unfold in front of me in a linear narrative. But that wasn’t happening, and I couldn’t get past the wall and its hellish teeth. Panic rose higher and higher until I let out a mental howl of desperation: ‘Please, please, please help me!’

Letting the desperation out left me in a moment of calm, and only in that space was I able to take a breath and begin to uncurl my fingers from the compulsion to take control of the situation and admit to myself that I was terrified of letting go and not being able to calmly analyse what was going on.

I wasn’t the only one. The next day, just about everyone else in the group told the same kind of story: we all got our asses kicked because we tried to control the experience and make sense of it as it happened. We were stuck in our heads, trying to control the flow of the river rather than floating wherever it took us. We knew we were supposed to let go, but we didn’t really understand what that meant until we failed to do it. It’s a bit like sitting on a moving train, looking out of the window. If you’re looking up ahead, you can see the wider picture, but if you turn side-on, trying to focus on things just as they pass by, it’s ungraspable; gone in a flash. With Ayahuasca, it’s about allowing things to come to you. So, be prepared to find out the hard way and try to recognise if you’re attempting to steer the experience.

#3. You Will Experience Meaningful Vomit

Ayahuasca gets messy. But although most people mention the vomiting, there’s quite a bit more to the experience than just nausea and discomfort. Some part of your mind tries to make sense of why you’re vomiting… And it’s not just a vague ‘let’s cleanse your insides’; it becomes woven into a meaningful story in your mind, like those moments between waking and dreaming when your brain turns the sound of your alarm into some part of the dream. For some people, this can end up being a full on redemption story: Mother Ayahuasca told one friend of mine that she’d been medicating with alcohol for years, so now she’d got to throw it all back up. This can be liberating in the end, but my own experience of choking into a plastic basin trying to cough up a chunk of my own personality that was holding me back in life was quite a long way from my idea of fun.

#4. The Ayahuasca Visions Don’t Make Sense Until Later

People always talk about the visions when they talk about Ayahuasca. Given how colourful, wild and revealing they can be, that’s no surprise. But by the time you hear them, a complicated process has already taken place and the person recounting the tale has had to do quite a bit of work.

The morning after each ceremony, my group and I stumbled around, glassy-eyed and almost mute, unable to express what had happened to us the night before. Things still seemed beyond words. Only later in the day did the images, moments and feelings even start coming together; in fact, the meaning came through the process of sharing them with each other. It was in the act of putting things into words or writing them in a journal that we began, to quote Alan Watts, ‘to eff the ineffable’. The story comes out in the tellings, and not without quite a bit of effort and frustration.

Part of the difficulty is simply that in the psychedelic space, completely contradictory things – thoughts, pictures, feelings – can peacefully coexist without logic or reasoning getting in the way. But when we try to describe them in conventional language, the cracks start to show and those moments of absolute emotional clarity become impossible to nail down. What we share afterwards is just a rough simulacrum of the actual experience – an approximation specifically shaped to tell to other people.

#5. … And you might not ‘see’ visions at all

Despite all the stories and often-beautiful artwork, not everyone gets visions. And ‘visions’ might not be the best word for what happens, anyway. You might not actually see anything at all, but instead perceive things in some subtly different way. So, while someone might tell you emphatically that they didn’t have any visual experience, they might go on to say, with fire burning in their eyes, that they had the experience of being eaten alive by a giant anaconda, finding themselves at the end of the universe, or experiencing the death of everyone they’ve ever loved. So what the hell does that mean?

In short, the experience doesn’t unspool in front of you like a movie; it’s more like a waking dream or a vivid reverie created in your imagination, but over which you have very little control.

#6. You won’t get what you want and you might not know what you need

I went to Peru with questions like: What should I do with my life? and What am I even good at? Ayahuasca gave me a firm slap in the face and said, ‘No, bitch, we need to deal with the fact you hate yourself first!’

I wasn’t entirely oblivious to this, but I thought I could skip to the endgame without going back to the beginning. I was trying to build on top of foundations that were rusted and collapsing, and Ayahuasca wasn’t going to let me be so foolish. We often don’t realise the source of the pain we feel; tracing back the convoluted route it takes through the psyche, back to the root, can seem impossible. We think we don’t know, but at a deeper level we do; Ayahuasca reveals and reconnects us with the source, but, to the conscious mind at least, this can come as quite a surprise.

#7. People who’re prepared to be vulnerable and address their issues are truly beautiful

Some of the most powerful moments when drinking Ayahuasca don’t happen in the ceremonies themselves; they happen in the times between, sharing stories, experiences, hopes and fears with the people around you. That kind of honesty and openness is all too rare in everyday life; sharing such intense experiences – baring our souls to each other – quickly turned us into a fellowship.

When I think of my time in the jungle, it’s not drinking the Ayahuasca that I dwell on, but being there with those courageously vulnerable people in an atmosphere where everything was aimed at healing and helping and valuing ourselves.

#8. It’s worth looking in the mirror to see who’s there

I’ve heard people talk about getting ‘stuck in the mirror’ when they’ve taken mind-altering substances, and they didn’t seem to look back on the experience too fondly. It was different for me.

After a trip to the bathroom mid-ceremony, I looked into the mirror and saw someone else there. I mean, it was me, but it was also someone separate – someone who spoke to me. He looked pretty nice. Friendly. Open. We spoke to each other and, for the first time in my life, I really felt like I was on my own side.

I was able to tell myself that I love myself, and in a way which actually felt real, rather than mouthing the words because some self-help book told me I should. I felt like I really reconnected with my heart. More importantly, since then I’ve kept the ability to have these conversations with myself – to be able to check in and ask with compassion, ‘Are you OK?’, and to answer honestly, instinctively, and to be able to feel that I’m on my own side, rather than my own worst enemy. For me, this is the only way I seem to truly connect with my emotional self, without getting tangled up in thoughts, fears and rationalisations.

So, this might not be for you, but it was such an important moment for me that I wouldn’t want you to miss the chance of having a similar experience.

#9. Most people back home who haven’t worked with Ayahuasca will treat you like a freak.

They might not moralise and remonstrate (although some will), but they’ll be disturbed at some level by your actions. This can feel pretty alienating, even hurtful, so it’s worth preparing for. It’s not necessarily even about the ‘drug-taking’: a distant reception from people back home is a side-effect of travel in general.

T.S. Eliot once wrote that, ‘And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time’, but, as Rolf Potts, author of Vagabonding, points out, ‘“knowing” your home for the first time means that you’ll feel a stranger in a place that should feel familiar’.

Coming back from a long journey to discover that nothing much has changed and people are unwilling or unable to get excited about your stories because they lie too far beyond the horizon of their own experience, as well as the mundanity of what they’ve been up to in your absence (familiar patterns that you may’ve been trying to break out of), mean that you can feel remarkably lonely on you return.

Drinking Ayahuasca is a journey in itself, and it’s one you can’t expect most people – even those closest to you – to understand. They might say ‘Wow’, or ‘That sounds crazy’, but their eyes will then either glaze over or search deeply into yours, looking for signs that you’re about to grab a knife and go totally off the cheeseboard. So we must remember, as Potts notes, that ‘travel should always be a privately motivated undertaking. Try as you might, you simply can’t make the social rewards of travel match up to the private discoveries’, and, therefore, ‘remember to keep your stories short and keep the best bits for yourself’.

Share what you want, of course, but don’t become disheartened when these intense, possibly life-changing experiences fall lifeless at the feet of your puzzled audience.

I also found that the more I told even the most profound, deeply affecting part of my Ayahuasca experience (where I’d been able to meet and embrace my inner child), the more I felt it diminish in intensity. By exposing it to the light, I was allowing it to fade a little each time. As recent research into memory shows, the more often you recall an event, the more you are only recalling the last time you told the story, rather than the events themselves – and given you’ll be describing some deep emotional experiences that lie far beyond words, this can severely limit and degrade those original experiences.

I also didn’t want to retell that moment without feeling the depth of the emotions it conjured up, but I also didn’t want to burst into tears and find that emotional place on demand whenever anyone asked me about my experiences. So, if you do want to share your stories, I suggest recording them in some form – written, spoken, filmed – soon after they happened, and then share the recording instead. You can also prepare some sound-bite answers like, ‘It was probably the most important thing I’ve done’. For most people, that’s about as much as they actually want to hear; you can always go into greater detail if someone truly wants to know more.

#10. Integration of Ayahuasca is much harder and much longer than you think.

This is the most important point of all. There’s so much stuff online which makes it sound like a cup of Ayahuasca is a magic potion that provides an instant transformation: a sudden clarity which resolves all emotional and mental difficulties. It doesn’t.

Just about everyone in the group I drank with has talked about how difficult they found it to understand and integrate what happened in Peru. For some, myself included, life seemed even more of a mess than before; in many ways we felt like we’d ‘done it wrong’ and promptly started beating ourselves up because we ‘couldn’t even drink Ayahuasca properly’. I still experienced depression at various levels of intensity and was still very confused and anxious about where my life was going – but now I’d also had a bunch of my core beliefs and ideas thrown into disarray by the medicine. Having your life, habits and values called into question is going to be massively destabilising, even if it ultimately leads to positive results.

This might sound obvious, but it’s not what any of us had expected. People usually speak about their Ayahuasca experiences while they’re still in the immediate afterglow and everything seems peacefully rosy. But it’s taking the experiences and insights back into everyday, ‘normal’ life which is the real challenge. You may enjoy a powerful clarity when you’re under the medicine, but to replicate that clarity and sense of ‘rightness’ without it, you need to make practical changes to your life outside the maloka. And change is a tricky thing: it takes time, it can be scary, and often it hurts.

Ayahuasca raises more questions than it answers; you’ll likely spend months and even years finding ways to answer those questions. Getting an Ayahuasca tattoo after your experience is not the same as taking the feelings and knowledge of the ceremonies away with you and making real and likely painful changes to your life.

The ceremony is the first step, but integration is the journey; the ceremony is merely the prologue of a much longer story. This is why people often talk about ‘working with’, rather than ‘taking’, Ayahuasca. It’s an active and ongoing process that requires effort from your side, too.

So, if you’re going to work with the brew, I wish you well on your travels and hope these pointers help you along the way. We can never be truly ‘ready’, but at least we can walk into the unknown with our eyes and hearts open.

But even if you disregard all of the above, then take these four words with you instead:

Be kind to yourself.


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Pete Ross started playing the accordion at the early age of six years old. Pete's career took a bit of a winding trail from what we could tell in a short article on a in 1956 magazine.

At one time prior to the mid-1950s, he had worked at radio station KNOX in Grand Forks, North Dakota. He continued to travel as many musicians did then and worked on shows with such acts as Hawkshaw Hawkins, Ray Little, Harold 'Lone' Pine and Betty Cody.

He was said to be able to sing a "...Western ditty the way it was meant to be sung" and also displayed some comedic talents.

By 1956, he was being heard over WMTW in Poland Springs, Maine on a television show called the "Rhythm Ranch".

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Concurrency: A single human body cell versus the internet

This week I asked Alan Kay (the inventor of OOP, Smalltalk, the Dynabook, and much more) if there are more concurrent activities going on inside a single human body cell than on the whole internet? Since he is a computer scientist as well as a molecular biologist he seemed to be the right person to answer this question. Here is a summary of the short conversation:

Hi Daniel

Good question -- and we have to work on the question some more in order to get a reasonable comparison.

Since matter is concurrently active at the subatomic level, the more mass we have the more concurrent activities -- so the Internet wins here because it has much more mass.

Things get a lot more tricky at the "cell mechanics" level. Typical human body cells have about 80 billion large molecules of about 10,000 types (the other 70% is water and other small molecules), and these are concurrently active.
There are several billion computers on the Internet (plus many nuts and bolts computers such as routers) and we can guess that most of these have a few hundred processes each (and each with some number of threads) -- all of which are pseudo-concurrent (it's really how many CPU type things are operating).

So at the hardware level with real CPU like things, there are likely ~ 10 in each computer, and now more with multiples cores, so that gives us an estimate of around 20 billion real concurrent processes not counting routers and other infrastructure.

If we count pseudo-processes (which are logically concurrent), then I think in the Internet we've exceeded a single cell at the active large molecule as a process level of concurrency.

We have about 10 Trillion cells in our body that have our DNA (and about 90 Trillion that are microorganisms of many different kinds).

I think we are safe to say that the concurrent activities in one human body completely dominate the Internet.

However, I have not looked below the CPU level to processes at the hardware level .... perhaps you'd like to take a shot at estimating that!

Hi Alan,

thanks for your detailed answer. I really appreciate that you took the time to think about this. I came up with this question when thinking about concurrency (maybe also parallelism and message passing) as measurement unit for complex systems. There is no measurement unit for concurrency, I think. But its quite hard to define one, just like comparing the incomparable :-).
I also tried to google the answer to this question but since I am a software engineer and only a hobbyist in biology, I wasn't quite sure if I can count all proteins as concurrently active entities or if I should only count ribosomes, motor proteins etc. as concurrently active. On the internet I found that there are about 15.000 ribosomes in one single cell. If only counting ribosomes (which I think is not correct) would reduce the concurrency within a human body cell enormously. Hard to compare...

Thank you very much and best regards,

Hi Daniel

You have to at least count proteins that are acting as enzymes -- they are continuously active. Also, you will be interested (and amazed) if you look at the dynamics of biochemistry (i.e. why does it work? How do the molecules "find" each other). These processes are happening concurrently.

I think it is hard to compare -- but mainly for "level" not for estimating how many entities are actually "in process" concurrently.

Really impressive, isn't it? And we software engineers think that today's multi-core computers provide concurrency and parallelism. |-O

  1. Be aware that with concurrency as measurement unit for complex systems I really mean complex systems and not complicated or complected systems (as Rich Hickey explains in Simple Made Easy).

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The focus of the industry until yesterday was Kanye West, J. Cole and Mac Miller. But it didn’t take Jay-Z much to shift it when he announced his new album Magna Carta Holy Grail and the unique release rollout through Samsung’s smart devices. But Wale is also set to release his third album The Gifted next Tuesday featuring collaborations with Meek Mill, Nicki Minaj, Rick Ross, Rihanna, Wiz Khalifa, 2 Chainz and more.

Today, he has decided to release the album for free stream on iTunes. Without wasting any time, hit this link to hear The Gifted in its entirety. Full track list after the jump.

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2. LoveHate Thing (Feat. Sam Dew)
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14. 88
15. Black Heroes / Outro About Nothing (Feat. Jerry Seinfeld)
16. Bad (Feat. Tiara Thomas)

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Sunday, January 13, 2013

Melissa & Claire = priceless

I usually don't post on things I do but this has to be made into an exception!
My friend Melissa, who lived in Seoul and who shares this appreciation for Korean food and culture, took me to this little hole in the wall on 9th Street and 7th Ave. It pretty much shares a wall with Crack Mac's and above, a packade.

It is called Don Day and it's pretty freaking amazing, my friends!

We shared a couple things to bite on (Melissa proceeded to show me how to cut with chop sticks PROPERLY because I was just going nowhere with my shitty chopstick cutting skills), drank too much and watched K-pop, which I found to appreciate quite fondly after a couple shots of that delicious 14% plum liquor and a couple glasses of SoJu (19%).

After the second shot, I was quite reluctant do to a third right away. Props to Melissa for doing shots like a pro!

We shall meet again Soju!

Photo credit: Sequined Strawberries

The hole-in-the-wall we went to!

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