August 30, 2007 by SUM.

Recently, I received a letter from a World Vision worker, which included the 2007 annual progress report for Fatoumata, a picture of her, and a drawing made by Fatoumata. Due to privacy concerns, I’ll not display a picture of Fatoumata on the web site. But I can show you how the report looks like. As you can see from the report below, the information given is in regards to her health, school activities, her hobbies and contribution to her family life.

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August 24, 2007 by SUM.

In the past few weeks, I’ve focused on getting my book “Invisible Cloak” ready for publication. I accomplished my second milestone: send a copy to the Copyright Office. Now, I must focus on the publication process, which will take about two months.

Excerpt from book’s Introduction:

Ideas and concepts that many have labeled nonsense or heresy due to the former Zeitgeist’s unenlightenment are now integral parts of our lives. We know from our own and our ancestor’s experiences that living comes with no “written in stone” guarantees, with the exception that change always comes to pass. Miraculously, our God-given potential is inherent in change.

What if, at this moment, you want to unleash your hidden personal power to reach your God-given potential? It’s possible. You’re the master of your life. Bear in mind, to change things, you must start with yourself. As Gandhi said: “Become the change you want to see in the world.” Learn to recognize your personal power and use it effectively.

Over time, the scales fell from my eyes, and I discovered a numerical pattern manifesting in my life due to specific life experiences either being filtered out or amplified. The specific life experiences had a common denominator: the same number for their numerical equivalent. After I discovered my numerical pattern, I decided to investigate into this manifestation on a broader scale. To that end I researched and analyzed public data from renowned people. Soon it was obvious that certain numbers were frequently repeated not only in my life but also of those others; e.g., either in dates, house numbers, or in events corresponding to the same numerical equivalent. Through the course of self-discovery, I realized that I needed to write this book in order to share my knowledge so you too could awaken to this concept.

As a matter of fact, this book brings consciousness-raising information to those who desire it, elevating your awareness of the interrelation of our life experiences. Revealing the concealed universal force inherent in birthdates and names, I’ll demonstrate and explain a concept and tool, which will help identify your present life’s unique purpose. For instance, emerging data trails, in context in which they reoccur with your life experiences, are signs of your unique purpose as well as specific life lessons, which you must learn in this lifetime. During the course of your self-discovery, you’ll come to understand two concepts—metaphysics and numerology—that each of us can use as indispensable tools on our path of self-knowledge, self-determination and self-realization.

I present this concept through examples of distinguishable numerical patterns, which I noticed at first in myself and thereafter, in renowned personalities. The examples in this book support this concept, in addition to numerous spiritual and metaphysical literatures whose subject cover the principles for numbers and symbols.

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August 13, 2007 by SUM.

Last Friday while parking my car on a street in Ballard, a small suburb of Seattle, I was confronted with a parking situation, which most of us know all too well. Who hasn’t experienced that someone takes your parking spot, though you’ve been first in line. Since the person, who took my parking spot, acted in such a rude and reckless way, I confronted her as soon as she had done it.

I waited on the street for a car to leave the parking spot on my left. I left enough space on my right side so that other cars could pass without having to wait for me getting into that parking spot. The car was parked in an angle on the left side of the street. When I waited for a couple minutes for a parking spot, no other car had been behind or next to me. When the person in the parked car drove backwards to get out of the parking spot, another car came up behind me, and the driver stopped on my right and waited next to me, parallel to my car.

I thought that she had stopped her car so that the driver of the parked car could drive safely backwards onto the street. But as soon the driver of the parked car was on the street and drove forward, she sped into the parking spot. As soon she had done that, I got out of my car, knocked on her window, before she could leave her car, to get her attention. But she already knew that I was there.

The conversation in general went something like this. She opened the door and asked me not to knock vigorously on her window. I asked her to move her car because she had taken my parking spot. Her reply was that she had made an “honest mistake,” but since I had knocked vigorously on her window, she wouldn’t move her car. Additionally, she said that she would have moved her car if I had asked her without knocking vigorously on the window, and that this would teach me a lesson. I think you know by now how I felt.

She left her car with a book in her hand and went into a store or restaurant across the parking spot. Afterwards I got into my car and parked my car behind her car. I asked several people on the street whether there is a parking law that states that there is also a ‘right of way’ for parking incidents. The few people I asked told me that there is no ‘right of way’ law, and they suggested that I park my car elsewhere.

I wasn’t satisfied with their answer. Common sense told me that this woman had taken my parking spot and on top of everything had acted rudely and recklessly. Actually, she could have caused an accident. If I had begun to drive my car at the same time, when she sped her car into my parking spot, our cars would have collided. Due to her reckless and dangerous behavior I took notes of her car and the cars parked next to it. I thought that someone else must have seen her in her actions. Suddenly she appeared on the street again, and she asked me whether I wanted her to move her car. I asked her again to move her car out of the parking spot. Thereafter she parked her car elsewhere.

Later that day when I saw a parking enforcement car, I took the opportunity and inquired about the parking laws in Seattle. The officer not only told me that their is a ‘right of way’ parking law, he showed me the rule in his booklet. But he made it clear that this law applies only to parking on the streets of Seattle. I personally think that this is a common sense law. If you see a car waiting for a parking spot, you don’t recklessly seize that parking spot neither on a street nor private parking lot at a mall.

So, now you know that there is a ‘right of way’ parking law on the streets of Seattle, but if no officer is around, who will help you to enforce this law, you might be out of luck.

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August 9, 2007 by SUM.

For many years now, I’m living a far too isolated life in the Seattle area. Since I’m not working for a company, my social contacts are very limited. In addition, I’m not only single and without any family in this area, I’ve not met anyone with whom I could imagine wanting to be in a close relationship. Though I love to go out, attending concerts and other artistic performances, I stopped doing that after a while. But last Saturday afternoon, out of the spur of the moment, I visited the web site from Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley in Seattle.

When I read that Eartha Kitt, who is 80 years old, would perform that evening, I had to buy me a ticket. I’ve heard her name quite often, though I wasn’t familiar with her performances. And it was quite an enlightening evening. I think she is an inspiration to all the people who think age is no barrier and more than a frail vessel.

When Eartha left the stage, she walked by me and for a short moment she paused right next to me. I was so stunned so that I was speechless; I couldn’t say a ton at that moment. I wish I could have said to her that she is an inspiration. The whole purpose of me attending her performance had been to pay tribute to her that evening.

The next day I read her biography. To my surprise I read that her professional carrier took a setback in the United States, after she had expressed her political opinion about the Vietnam War. She was blacklisted for about 10 years in the U.S. While professionally exiled from the U.S., she performed overseas. At the end her persistence, resilience, and outstanding performances paid off, she made her professional comeback in the U.S. with a Broadway musical in 1978.

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August 1, 2007 by SUM.

We all know that we must take extra precautions when handling candles. They can easily fall over and accidentally ignite a fire. Therefore we’re already aware of their danger. But what about a candle or tea light containing a special ingredient that makes it extremely flammable? First of all, it shouldn’t be in the candle or tea light. Secondly, you never suspect that something is wrong with it until something unusual happens. This happened to me last year on Christmas.

I had bought a bag of tea lights at Ikea in Renton in summer of 2006. Though these candles are already in a metal container, I always place them in another glass container before lighting them. The container is a glass salt, which I had bought at a glass studio close by my place. When I lit these tea lights, I thought that nothing bad could happen. But I was in for a surprise.

The days before and during Christmas time, I always placed three tea lights on a window-sill in front of one of my kitchen windows. In the evening I lit the candles and let them burn down. Sometimes I went to bed, while the candles were still burning. I wasn’t aware that some of the tea lights were extremely flammable. And why should I?In the evening of Christmas day, December 25, I placed three tea lights in front of my window and lit them. While I watched TV, the candles were burning. I believe it was between 9 and 10 PM, when I heard a loud cracking sound coming from my kitchen. Since I had never heard this sound before in my apartment, I got up to see what this is all about.

When I walked into the kitchen, I saw thick black smoke covering my window. Additionally, I noticed that the tea light on the furthest right was engulfed in flames. It certainly didn’t burn like a regular tea light, and the glass salt was hot like a burning oven. At that moment I had no doubt that something must have been wrong with the tea light. I extinguished the fire and left the glass salt, with the tea light in it, sitting on the window-sill because it was too hot to handle.

The following morning I examined more precisely the damage. Firstly, I noticed that the glass of the window had a crack on the far right side. That’s why I had heard the cracking sound the previous evening. Secondly, when I picked up the glass salt, I saw a round burn mark on the window-sill, where I had placed the glass salt. The glass salt container had become so hot the previous evening that it had left a burn mark.

Right away I called Ikea and told a service manager what had happened. The manager asked me to bring whatever was left of the tea light to their office. The substance remaining in the metal container of the tea light was not like the usual wax. It was a thick black crumbled substance. The manager asked me, to leave, what was left of the tea light, with their office, and she told me that Ikea would pay for the repair of the glass window and window-sill. And they did. Ikea paid for the repair of my glass window, window-sill, and reimbursed me for the cost of the bag of tea lights.

I still would like to know, what kind of ingredient had been in the tea light or its metal container. It must have been a highly flammable substance burning with extremely high temperature. Only an extremely high temperature caused the thick glass salt to become so hot that I couldn’t touch it after I had extinguished the fire.

Fortunately, I’d been at home and not sleeping when the fire broke out. Up to that time, I had thought that a tea light would not pose a grave danger. However, this experience taught me otherwise.

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