Today is glorious, which describes the whole day perfectly. The morning had some overcast sheen of white with sylphs floating in and around the light purple and grayish cloud formations.
By noontime, the whole sky became brighter, clearer and bluer. The air is crispy and the vibration all around is calm and uplifting. Light winds seem flow among the trees.
Today reminds me of rosary prayers called ‘The Glorious Mysteries’ (said on Wednesdays and Sundays). This is one of three mysteries of the Holy Rosary with the other two being ‘The Joyful Mysteries’ (said on Mondays and Saturdays) and ‘The Sorrowful Mysteries’ (said on Tuesdays and Fridays).
This is a helpful meditative tool created by and for Catholics. Personally, I think the rosary beads is similar to any prayer beads used by other religions, especially her Buddhism. The differences are the prayers and the utilization of the string of beads.
Today is a blessing Brats new house. There is no real connection for a blessing between Twit’s auspicious belief between the hours of 11:30AM to 01:30PM and ours being on a glorious day of the week. I like to consider both versions are good luck.
Maw called me at work around 11:00AM today and I wasn’t too sure about going to Brats’ new house. I asked her last night if my presence at the blessing was fine with her. Her bad English may have been better expressed as more of an invitation rather than a dry statement my not having to go.
I managed to arrive at home around 11:30AM and all three of us were in a hurry to get to their new house to avoid being late. When we got there, we found two unorthodox events.
First, Brat was not present and we saw him walk from work to his new home after some two minutes of our arrival. Second, Twit was already with her mother and older sister. My first impression was that this was yet another bad sign but quickly inserted only good thoughts.
The fact that she came first has smacked into our face of our tradition already. Both people are black sheep of each bio-unit by the way. So this is no surprise if they go by their own rules at the expense of old traditional values.
We got out of the Mazda sedan and quickly unloaded the trunk. We heard Brat already getting mad at Twit for not waiting for both him and her to enter the new house together for the blessing. Maw instructed her son not to get mad at Twit in front of us again.
This is because she will forever be clueless because that is the way she is and has been brought up with no understanding of basic etiquette before coming to America. Our goal was to drop off the items, talk to those people and leave right away.
We believe both should have waited for us to symbolically bring in our tradition as well. For any new house, the couple should be present along with a few member of the bio-unit. Each side should hold at least something new to bring into the house.
Symbols of abundance in food, such as sugar, salt, flour, rice and water, were brought in. We added a box of raisin brand cereal, cookies, crackers and chocolate, which Twit doesn’t consume. Other symbols of good luck were brought into the new house. These were new flash lights, batteries, anti-histamines, pain-killers and candles.
Yesterday, my bio-unit bought three Catholic items of reverences, such as two statues of Fatima and Sacred Heart and a wooden crucifix. All four of us woke up early at 06:00AM and brought these items into the back of our church where the old priest was supposed to have blessed these items and us at 07:30AM. He was late around 07:55AM. Brat was late for his work.
Brat left for work immediately after the blessing and the three of us stayed for the daily 08:00AM mass where mostly older folks would normally pray. I had to go home because joining my bio-units for breakfast would not allow me time to reach work.
I saw four good looking police officers intercepting speeding motorists on my road again today as I did yesterday as well. I was fantasizing about meeting them but had to boil and eat my blocks of dried noodles for breakfast. At 09:11AM, I left my home to go to work and took my time for I was enjoying the nice day with my car windows rolled down.
All I could do is be an optimistic person although there are striking differences between both cultures. Both Brat and she are in love and I do not want to get too involve with their mess. I am most certainly sure that Twits’ side did not approve but they too have no other choice but to play along as the three of us do.
The day is both a blessing and a disappointment. I will leave work early today to find out what will transpire in the upcoming days (or years). My hope is for only happiness, long life and good luck for anyone who may have encountered blue days. The blue skies above, furthermore, should imprint into our psyche that better days are always presented in some fashion.
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