Monthly Archives: August 2015

Maya Angelou: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings dwn Aug 15, 2015 519putcu+lL._SX330_BO1,204,203,200_  This image from Amazon is the cover of this book by Maya Angelou.  It is a very vivid memoir of her childhood, detailed in its sensory descriptions.

Here is an example of her writing, where she is describing her angry brother leaving her mother and her at about age of sixteen.  The following is a set of quotes by her brother, and her thoughts in the situation, a good illustration of what I think of as mind points in motion.  ( As I imagine, in keeping with the synapses firing at the moment.)

“She wants me out, does she?  Well, I’ll get out of here so fast I’ll leave the air on fire.  She calls herself a mother? Huh!  I’ll be damned.  She’s seen the last of me.  I can make it.  I’ll always make it.”

At some point he noticed me still in the doorway, and his consciousness stretched to remember our relationship.

“Maya, if you want to leave now, come on.  I’ll take care of you.”

He didn’t wait for an answer, but as quickly went back to speaking to his soul.

I love this description of (a young) person,  reach out and grab his relationship with his sister, (then about age 14).  Then the young man’s consciousness included and invited her, and went back to its internal reflections, “speaking to his soul”.

As this issue resolved, the young man’s mind points aligned, and he went confidently off to become a porter on a train.

 

 

Fareed Zacharia’s Open Letter to Senator Schumer

Iran_(orthographic_projection).svg This map of Iran shows the global position of Iran, (attribution below).

Fareed Zacharia’s letter tells why he is not convinced by Chuck Schumer’s (Senator, NY) position against the Iran Deal.  Fareed Zacharia “respectfully urges” Senator  Schumer, “to reconsider” his recent “decision to vote against the nuclear agreement with Iran”.  Fareed Zacharia’s letter is very thoughtful, and very concise.  Please follow its link!

This map of Iran was made by “Iran (orthographic projection)” by P30Carl – Own work,This vector image was created with Inkscape.Aquarius.geomar.deThe map has been created with the Generic Mapping Tools: http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/ using one or more of these public domain datasets for the relief:ETOPO2 (topography/bathymetry): http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/global.htmlGLOBE (topography): http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/topo/gltiles.htmlSRTM (topography): http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/English | italiano | македонски | 日本語 | +/−Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iran_(orthographic_projection).svg#/media/File:Iran_(orthographic_projection).svg

 

 

Crochet Hook Sizes G, H, and I With #4 Cotton Yarn

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DSC07418 These Coasters were made  using Premier Home 85% cotton, 15% polyester size 4 yarn.   Crochet hooks size G, H, and I, in the first, second and third columns respectively.  Each coaster’s diameter was measured once before washing and once after washing producing two measurements for each hook size.  The average diameter gotten for each hook  before washing was:

  • G  –  3.34 inches
  • H  –  3.47 inches
  • I  –   3.84 inches

And after washing was:

  • G  –  3.32 inches
  • H  –  3.22 inches
  • I  –  3.5 inches

The percent shrinkage in coaster diameter for each hook was:

  • G  –  0.6%
  • H  –  7.20%
  • I  –  8.8 %

Conclusions

  1. The larger the hook, the greater the diameter shrinkage.
  2. Hook I, after shrinkage had the same diameter as hook G before shrinkage.