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Darn Garnet!

It was a relief to see the sun come up on this Wednesday morning.
Tuesday morning Sam had been in terrible agony. The broken tooth pain was vicious. Sam said the pain was second only to 'when he cut the first phalanx of his thumb off with that sliding miter saw.'
Oh oh!
"I'll try to get you in to see the dentist today but you'll have to make sure you answer the phone at work so I can get a hold of you," Simmy warned.
"I will," he promised.
Now, Sam and Simmy were trying something daring... they were trying to live within their means.
This means meant that the cell phone that Sam carried was waiting for minutes to be purchased to be of more use than a calculator.
At 10 minutes before 10 on Tuesday morning, the dental office called to say that Sam could get in immediately.
Simmy thanked her profusely and then dialed the dock phone number at Sams' work.
Fifty rings later, Simmy jumped into the Hummer to drive to his work. When she burst into the lunch room she was agitated and flustered.
"You said you would answer the phone today," she accused.
"I heard the phone ringing but we couldn't find it. We think somebody on the previous shift took it home," he answered, also a bit annoyed.
"Well, you need to get to the dentist office right now."
... less than two hours later, the neodymium- doped yttrium aluminum garnet laser had found the cavity and Sam walked into the house smiling in a happily doped way. Try saying neodymium- doped yttrium aluminum without a frozen- mouth- straight- from- the- dentist- office and that is how he sounded.
"There is a significant infection in there that I need some antibiotics for," Sam said as he handed Simmy the prescriptions so she could run that errand for him.
"The pain won't subside right away," the dentist had warned.
Another long, restless night proved that prophetic word to be correct.
After tabulating the costs of the day... Simmy decided, it was another day in the red.

Garnet Coeval

Lady Wisdom set the table on Monday but... when Sam came home in excruciating pain from a broken tooth that had snapped in the night... Simmy could tell he wasn't going to be eating anything that he had to chew so...
they ate oatmeal for dinner on a very finely set table.
Now, it was early Tuesday morning and Simmy went to find the sandpaper for her painting project.
Well, well, well,... rubies turn to garnet overnight!
Simmy grimaced. After the night they had just gone through with Sam and his exposed nerve... it did rather feel like abrasive Tuesday.
So, if you are bemoaning your lack of rubies... confer with Lady Wisdom and she may tell you to fetch your garnet... sandpaper, that is, and get back to work.
Phonetically, it may sound like it is a coeval, but it takes a lot of sanding to polish a ruby... and wisdom dictates that if garnet polishes rubies, then we can appreciate them equally.

Maybe just apply them differently.

Corundum Conundrum

Most people would not call sapphires and rubies, twins. Yet, 'A blood- red ruby and a deep blue sapphire are crystals of the same, relatively common mineral, corundum.' ( The last sentence taken from: http://www.gac.ca/PopularGeoscience/factsheets/SapphRub_e.pdf)
On Mohs scale of hardness, corundum is a 9, second only to diamond which is a 10.
The symbolism of jewels has long been of greater interest to me than the attainment of them. For, Proverbs declares that Wisdom is more precious than rubies and jewels.
Wisdom will reward you!

 Make something merry for someone this Christmas... that is Wisdom sure to reward!
I love The Message translation of Proverbs 3:13-18

                                                                         The Very Tree of Life

                                              You're blessed when you meet Lady Wisdom,
                                                    when you make friends with Madame Insight.
                                                 She's worth far more than money in the bank;
                                                   her friendship is better than a big salary.
                                                Her value exceeds all the trappings of wealth;
                                                 nothing you could wish for holds a candle to her.
                                              With one hand she gives long life,
                                                with the other she confers recognition.
                                              Her manner is beautiful,
                                               her life wonderfully complete.
                                            She's the very Tree of Life to those who embrace her.
                                             Hold her tight—and be blessed!

                                       

'December' Trember

Sam and Simmy had been very excited to go see 'December,' a play by Marc Moir of 'Padre X' fame. The play is about the 1989 Romanian revolution and... the music is borrowed from the Beatles.
Firstly, Simmy and Sam had been sponsoring a Romanian child since about the year 2000 A.D. through

                 MISSION WITHOUT BORDERS.

The investment of these past years was paying off and the young man was currently teaching deaf children, in Romania. He is also deaf. This investment was an orphan who was never visited by anyone while living at the orphanage.

So, this little Christmas pageant was of some keen interest to Sam and Simmy.

The Beatles music is all performed by local talent and musicians. Anyone who appreciates grassroots talent will enjoy singing along to these old songs that ring forth with prophetic resonance.

There is a good write- up of the story in The Winnipeg Free Press FYI feed your intellect faith section, December 3, 2011.

The tickets are only $10 and I can't imagine getting a better bang for your buck anywhere.

The word 'Trember' is a word I made up to describe the play... I'm sure urban dictionary will be asking to use it soon.

'Trember' is a mix of tremble and timbre. We all know what it means to tremble. Timbre is the characteristic quality of a sound, independent of pitch and loudness, from which its Source or manner of production can be inferred. Timbre depends on the relative strengths of the components of different frequencies, which are determined by resonance. (definition taken from dictionary.com)

That is a great way to describe this play. The traditional Star of Hope overshadows the production with artistic license. (Do you see the Star in the photo?)

This Christmas, maybe you too will sponsor a child to relieve a little suffering in the world. It is a gift to yourself, really... as you make the world better for one, you make it better for yourself too. 

That timbre has a ripple effect.

Go see the play tonight! You'll love what they did with it!

Kindly Sinister Coupon Soupcon

Computer savvy son walked into the house and Simmy called out excitedly.
"I think I won an ipad."
"I doubt it," he answered skeptically.
"What? You don't think so either, hey?" Simmy laughed but there was this little bit of but I thought maybe I may have won something bit of hope slowing blurring into the shadows of I really didn't think so either.
"When you have a chance to look at this email, tell me what you think," Simmy was asking a trusted source.
A few minutes later computer savvy son took a look at the ipad email and said, "No, it's spam!"
So... Simmy got right on that email and sent the sender a warning that she probably wouldn't want to send that to anyone else but...
it was too late.
That little, seemingly innocuous, email had already infiltrated Simmys' contact list and was sending itself to some of her contacts... and the nasty little thing would put in the subject line words like... 'Woow; Very Good; Amazing; Incredible; Check This; See This;...
and, it had the capacity to put different words in the subject line for each address it robbed and so it was savvy in a kindly sinister way.
Simmy sent each person, on her contact list, a warning not to open it and then an apology for 'what was not in her control.'
She especially sent an email to the person who inadvertently sent it to her who exclaimed, "I don't even know how that happened. I only use this email for coupons and offers."
"Coupon Soupcon!" Simmy thought.
Then Simmy sent a warning to the pastor who was somehow addressed as a contact person and he said he didn't even know the sender... Oy!
"I said, 'Well, that little email has infiltrated the church email list... somehow,... so you'd better check it out."
So, what is the lesson today?
If you get a ipad... you paid for it, freely.
If you didn't pay for an ipad, and somebody says you won one freely, check the source.
We do tend to get what we pay for.
After running an anitvirus scan on every computer file, there were 0 infected files on Simmys' computer.
"How is that possible?" Simmy asked computer savvy son.
"The virus was in the email," he explained, "not in your computer."

Christmas on the Fence

It's December 1st, thought Simmy. Hmm, how will I start off the month?
Two emails went out, before 8 a.m., offering Peace. Good start, good start!
But, what else? Simmy tuned in to the Brad Paisley Christmas CD which, Oh! Oh!, I think might belong to Youthful. I'd better see if she is missing it!
Song #11 was a hoot! Kung Pao Buckaroo Holiday!

As Simmy fetched the stocking that she was going to put out for the neighbor children (more like youth, now), she looked at the picture of Jesus and Joseph and Mary and the lamb on the front and, the irony of this, combined with the song Kung Pao Christmas playing in the background, gave her a definite kosher giggle.
Can I say that, she thought.
Oh yah!
Kosher means 'fit or proper or pure.'
So, the giggle was a good fit for having a fit.
Kung Pao Kosher Christmas?
If there is a 'Kung Pao Kosher Comedy' (a Jewish Comedy on Christmas in a Chinese Restaurant) in San Francisco, and a Kung Pao Buckaroo Holiday at the Grand Ole Opry theatre... which used to be a one hour radio 'Barn Dance',...
then,... it should be just fine to give a stocking with the manger scene to the neighbors.
That is a kosher or 'pure' action.
Besides, son of Salmon had himself been wondering just a couple of weeks ago if Simmy knew about the Christmas story.
Oy!
Sometimes being too politically correct confuses the children... don't want to do that now, do we?
So, Simmy wanted to do the kosher, or 'proper' thing and make sure she didn't confuse son of Salmon so...
Simmy put that stocking, that her friend Deborah had encouraged her to purchase, right there... on the wooden fence,...
which really means I'm not, right? 
Simmy instructed Dove Girl to put the stocking back when she had emptied it... for another little gift the next day and the next, and...
'Let's have some fun! It's December Christmas!'