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Faithful Place
My father once told me that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for. If you don't know that, he said, what are you worth? Nothing. You're not a man at all. I was thirteen and he was three quarters of the way into a bottle of Gordon's finest, but hey, good talk. As far as I recall, he was willing to die a) for Ireland, b) for his mother, who had been dead for ten years, and c) to get that bitch Maggie Thatcher.
All the same, at any moment of my life since that day, I could have told you straight off the bat exactly what I would die for. At first it was easy: my family, my girl, my home. Later, for a while, things got more complicated. These days they hold steady, and I like that; it feels like something a man can be proud of. I would die for, in no particular order, my city, my job, and my kid.
The kid is well behaved so far, the city is Dublin, and the job is on the Undercover Squad, so it may sound obvious which one I'm most likely to wind up dying for, but it's been a while since work handed me anything scarier than a paperwork megaturd. The size of this country means a field agent's shelf life is short; two ops, maybe four, and your risk of being spotted gets too high. I used up my nine lives a long time back. I stay behind the scenes, for now, and run operations of my own.
Here's the real risk in Undercover, in the field and out: you create illusions for long enough, you start thinking you're in control. It's easy to slide into believing you're the hypnotist here, the mirage master, the smart cookie who knows what's real and how all the tricks are done. The fact is you're still just another slack-jawed mark in the audience. No matter how good you are, this world is always going to be better at this game. It's more cunning than you are, it's faster and it's a whole lot more ruthless. All you can do is try to keep up, know your weak spots and never stop expecting the sucker punch.
The second time my life geared up for the sucker punch, it was a Friday afternoon at the beginning of December. I had spent the day doing maintenance work on some of my current mirages --- one of my boys, who would not be getting any cookies from Uncle Frank in his Christmas stocking, had got himself into a situation wherein, for complex reasons, he needed an elderly lady whom he could introduce to several low-level drug dealers as his granny --- and I was heading over to my ex-wife's place to pick up my kid for the weekend. Olivia and Holly live in a jaw-droppingly tasteful semi-d on a manicured cul-de-sac in Dalkey. Olivia's daddy gave it to us for a wedding present. When we moved in, it had a name instead of a number. I got rid of that fast, but still, I should have copped right then that this marriage was never going to work. If my parents had known I was getting married, my ma would have gone deep into hock at the credit union, bought us a lovely floral living-room suite and been outraged if we took the plastic off the cushions.
Olivia kept herself bang in the middle of the doorway, in case I got ideas about coming in. "Holly's almost ready," she said.
Olivia, and I say this hand on heart with the proper balance of smugness and regret, is a stunner: tall, with a long elegant face, plenty of soft ashblond hair and the kind of discreet curves you don't notice at first and then can't stop noticing. That evening she was smoothed into an expensive black dress and delicate tights and her grandmother's diamond necklace that only comes out on big occasions, and the Pope himself would have whipped off his skullcap to mop his brow. Me being a less classy guy than the Pope, I wolf whistled. "Big date?"
"We're going for dinner."
"Does 'we' involve Dermo again?"
Olivia is way too smart to let me yank her chain that easily. "His name's Dermot, and yes, it does."
I did impressed. "That's four weekends running, am I right? Tell me something: is tonight the big night?"
Olivia called up the stairs, "Holly! Your father's here!" While she had her back turned, I headed on past her into the hall. She was wearing Chanel No. 5, same as she has ever since we met.
Upstairs: "Daddy! I'm coming I'm coming I'm coming, I just have to . . ." and then a long intent stream of chatter, as Holly explained her complicated little head without caring whether anyone could hear her. I yelled, "You take your time, sweetheart!" on my way into the kitchen.
Olivia followed me. "Dermot will be here any minute," she told me. I wasn't clear on whether this was a threat or a plea.
I flipped open the fridge and had a look inside. "I don't like the cut of that fella. He's got no chin. I never trust a man with no chin."
"Well, fortunately, your taste in men isn't relevant here."
"It is if you're getting serious enough that he'll be spending time around Holly. What's his surname again?"
Once, back when we were heading for the split, Olivia slammed the fridge door on my head. I could tell she was thinking about doing it again. I stayed leaning over, to give her every opportunity, but she kept her cool. "Why do you want to know?"
"I'll need to run him through the computer." I pulled out a carton of orange juice and gave it a shake. "What's this crap? When did you stop buying the good stuff?"
Olivia's mouth --- subtle nude lipstick --- was starting to tighten. "You will not run Dermot through any computer, Frank."
"Got no choice," I told her cheerfully. "I have to make sure he's not a kiddie-fiddler, haven't I?"
"Sweet Lord, Frank! He is not --- "
"Maybe not," I acknowledged. "Probably not. But how can you be sure, Liv? Wouldn't you rather be safe than sorry?" I uncapped the juice and took a swig.
"Holly!" Olivia called, louder. "Hurry up!"
"I can't find my horse!" A bunch of thumps, overhead.
I told Olivia, "They target single mammies with lovely little kids. And it's amazing how many of them don't have chins. Have you never noticed that?"
"No, Frank, I haven't. And I won't have you using your job to intimidate --- "
"Take a good look next time there's a pedo on the telly. White van and no chin, I guarantee you. What does Dermo drive?"
I had another big gulp of juice, wiped off the spout with my sleeve and stuck the carton back in the fridge. "That tastes like cat's piss. If I up the child support, will you buy decent juice?"
"If you tripled it," Olivia said sweetly and coldly, glancing at her watch, "not that you could, it might just about cover one carton a week." Kitty has claws, if you keep pulling her tail for long enough.
At this point Holly saved both of us from ourselves by shooting out of her room calling, "Daddydaddydaddy!" at the top of her lungs. I made it to the bottom of the stairs in time for her to take a flying leap at me like a little spinning firework, all gold cobweb hair and pink sparkly things, wrapping her legs round my waist and whacking me in the back with her schoolbag and a fuzzy pony called Clara that had seen better days.
"Hello, spider monkey," I said, kissing the top of her head. She was light as a fairy. "How was your week?"
"Very busy and I'm not a spider monkey," she told me severely, nose to nose. "What's a spider monkey?"
Holly is nine and the fine-boned, easy-bruised spit of her mother's family --- us Mackeys are sturdy and thick-skinned and thick-haired, built for hard work in Dublin weather --- all except for her eyes. The first time I ever saw her she looked up at me with my own eyes, great wide bright-blue eyes that hit me like a Taser zap, and they still make my heart flip over every time. Olivia can scrape off my surname like an out-of-date address label, load up the fridge with juice I don't like and invite Dermo the Pedo to fill my side of the bed, but there's not a thing she can do about those eyes.
I told Holly, "It's a magic fairy monkey that lives in an enchanted wood." She gave me a look that was perfectly balanced between Wow and Nice try. "What has you so busy?"
She slid off me and landed on the floor with a thump. "Chloe and Sarah and me are going to have a band. I drew you a picture in school because we made up a dance and can I have white boots? And Sarah wrote a song and . . ." For a second there Olivia and I almost smiled at each other, across her head, before Olivia caught herself and checked her watch again.
In the drive we crossed paths with my friend Dermo, who --- as I know for a fact, because I snagged his plate number the first time he and Olivia went out to dinner --- is an impeccably law-abiding guy who has never even parked his Audi on a double yellow, and who can't help looking like he lives life on the verge of a massive belch. "Evening," he said, giving me an electrocuted nod. I think Dermo may be scared of me. "Holly."
"What do you call him?" I asked Holly, when I had fastened her into her booster seat and Olivia, perfect as Grace Kelly, was kissing Dermo's cheek in the doorway.
Holly rearranged Clara's mane and shrugged. "Mum says to call him Uncle Dermot."
"And do you?"
"No. Out loud I don't call him anything. In my head I call him Squidface." She checked in the rearview mirror, to see if I was going to give out about that. Her chin was all ready to turn stubborn.
I started to laugh. "Beautiful," I told her. "That's my girl," and I did a handbrake turn to make Olivia and Squidface jump.
Since Olivia got sense and kicked me out, I live on the quays, in a massive apartment block built in the nineties by, apparently, David Lynch. The carpets are so deep that I've never heard a footstep, but even at four in the morning you can feel the hum of five hundred minds buzzing on every side of you: people dreaming, hoping, worrying, planning, thinking. I grew up in a tenement house, so you would think I'd be good with the factory-farm lifestyle, but this is different. I don't know these people; I never even see these people. I have no idea how or when they get in and out of the place. For all I know they never leave, just stay barricaded in their apartments, thinking Even in my sleep I've got one ear tuned to that buzz, ready to leap out of bed and defend my territory if I need to.
The decor in my personal corner of Twin Peaks is divorcé chic, by which I mean that, four years on, it still looks like the moving van hasn't arrived yet. The exception is Holly's room, which is loaded with every fluffy pastel object known to man. The day we went looking for furniture together, I had finally managed to wrestle one weekend a month out of Olivia, and I wanted to buy Holly everything on three floors of the shopping center. A part of me had believed I'd never see her again.
"What are we doing tomorrow?" she wanted to know, as we headed up the padded corridor. She was trailing Clara on the carpet by one leg. Last I'd looked, she would have screamed bloody murder at the thought of that horse touching the floor. Blink and you miss something.
"Remember that kite I got you? Finish all your homework tonight, and if it's not raining I'll bring you to the Phoenix Park and teach you to fly it."
"Can Sarah come?"
"We'll ring her mum after dinner." Holly's mates' parents love me. Nothing feels more responsible than having a detective take your kid to the park.
"Dinner! Can we get pizza?"
"Sure," I said. Olivia lives an additive-free, organic, high-fiber life; if I don't do a little counterbalancing, the kid will grow up twice as healthy as all her mates and feel left out. "Why not?" and then I unlocked the door and got my first hint that Holly and I weren't getting any pizza tonight. The voice-mail light on my phone was going apeshit. Five missed calls. Work rings me on my mobile, field agents and confidential informants ring me on my other mobile, the lads know they'll see me in the pub when they see me, and Olivia sends me text messages when she has to. That left family, which meant my kid sister Jackie, seeing as she was the only one I'd talked to in a couple of decades. Five calls probably meant one of our parents was dying.
I told Holly, "Here," and held out my laptop. "You take that to your room and annoy your mates on IM. I'll be in to you in a few minutes."
Holly, who knows well that she isn't allowed to go online in private till she's twenty-one, gave me a skeptical look. "If you want a cigarette, Daddy," she told me, very maturely, "you can just go out on the balcony. I know you smoke."
I steered her towards her room with a hand on her back. "Oh, yeah? What makes you think that?" At any other time I would have been seriously curious. I've never smoked in front of Holly, and Olivia wouldn't have told her. We made her mind, the two of us; the idea of it containing things we didn't put there still blows me away.
"I just know," Holly said, dumping Clara and her bag on her bed and looking lofty. The kid'll make a detective yet. "And you shouldn't. Sister Mary Therese says it turns all your insides black."
"Sister Mary Therese is dead right. Smart woman." I switched on the laptop and hooked up the broadband line. "There you go. I've to make a phone call. Don't be buying any diamonds on eBay."
Holly asked, "Are you going to ring your girlfriend?"
She looked tiny and way too wise, standing there in her white padded coat that came halfway down her skinny legs, wide eyes trying not to look scared. "No," I said. "No, sweetheart. I don't have a girlfriend."
"I swear. I'm not planning on getting one anytime soon, either. In a few years maybe you can pick one out for me. How's that?"
"I want Mum to be your girlfriend."
"Yeah," I said. "I know." I put my hand on her head for a second; her hair felt like petals. Then I closed her door behind me and went back to the living room to find out who had died.
It was Jackie on the voice mail, all right, and she was going like an express train. Bad sign: Jackie brakes for good news ("You'll never guess what happened. Go on, have guess") and floors the pedal for bad. This was Formula 1 stuff . "Ah, Jaysus, Francis, would you ever pick up your bleeding phone, I need to talk to you, I'm not just ringing you for the laugh, do I ever? Now before you go getting a fright, it's not Mammy, God forbid, she's grand, a bit shook up but sure aren't we all, she was having palpitations there at first but she had a sit-down and Carmel gave her a drink of brandy and she's grand now, aren't you, Mam? Thank God Carmel was there, she does call round most Fridays after the shopping, she rang me and Kevin to come down. Shay said not to be ringing you, what's the point, he said, but I told him to feck off for himself, it's only fair, so if you're at home would you ever pick up this phone and talk to me? Francis! I swear to God --- " The message space ran out with a beep.
Carmel and Kevin and Shay, oh my. It sounded very much like the entire family had descended on my parents' place. My da; it had to be. "Daddy!" Holly yelled, from her room. "How many cigarettes do you smoke every day?"
The voice-mail lady told me to press buttons; I followed orders. "Who says I smoke?"
"I need to know! Twenty?"
For a start. "Maybe."
Jackie again: "Bleeding machines, I wasn't finished! Come here, I should've said right away, it's not Da either, he's the same as ever, no one's dead or hurt or nothing, or anyway we're all grand. Kevin's a bit upset but I think that's because he's worried about how you'll take it, he's awful fond of you, you know, he still is. Now it might be nothing, Francis, I don't want you losing the head, right, it could all be a joke, someone messing, that's what we thought at first, although pretty shite joke if you ask me, excuse my language --- "
"Daddy! How much exercise do you get?"
What the hell? "I'm a secret ballet dancer."
"Noooo, seriously! How much?"
"Not enough."
" --- and sure, none of us have a clue what to be doing with it an' anyway, so would you ever ring me as soon as you get this? Please, Francis. I'll have my mobile in my hand, now."
Click, beep, voice-mail babe. Looking back, I should have figured it out by that point, or at least I should have got the general idea. "Daddy? How much fruit and vegetables do you eat?"
"You do not!"
The next three messages were more of the same, at half-hour intervals. By the last one, Jackie had reached the point where only small dogs could hear her.
"Give me a sec, sweetie."
I took my mobile out on the balcony, above the dark river and the greasy orange lights and the running snarl of the traffic jams, and phoned Jackie. She answered on the first ring. "Francis? Jesus, Mary and Joseph, I've been going mental! Where were you?"
She had slowed down to about eighty miles an hour. "Picking up Holly. What the hell, Jackie?"
Background noise. Even after all that time, I knew the quick bite of Shay's voice straight away. One note of my ma caught me right in the throat.
"Ah, God, Francis . . . Would you sit down for me, now? Or get yourself a glass of brandy, something like that?"
"Jackie, if you don't tell me what's going on, I swear I'm going to come over there and strangle you."
"Hang on, hold your horses . . ." A door closing. "Now," Jackie said, into sudden quiet. "Right. D'you remember I was telling you a while back, some fella's after buying up the three houses at the top of the Place? To turn into apartments?"
"He's not doing the apartments after all, now everyone's after getting all worried about property prices; he's leaving the houses a while and see what happens. So he got the builders in to take out the fireplaces and the moldings and that, to sell --- there's people pay good money for those yokes, did you know that? mentallers --- and they started today, on the one up on the corner. D'you remember, the derelict one?"
"Number Sixteen."
"That's the one. They were taking out the fireplaces, and up behind one of them they found a suitcase."
Dramatic pause. Drugs? Guns? Cash? Jimmy Hoff a? "Fuck's sake, Jackie. What?"
"It's Rosie Daly's, Francis. It's her case."
All the layers of traffic noise vanished, snapped right off . That orange glow across the sky turned feral and hungry as forest fire, blinding, out of control.
"No," I said, "it's not. I don't know where the hell you got that, but it's a load of my arse."
"Ah, now, Francis --- "
Concern and sympathy were pouring off her voice. If she'd been there, I think I would have punched her lights out. "'Ah, now, Francis,' nothing. You and Ma have yourselves worked up into some hysterical frenzy over sweet fuck-all, and now you want me to play along --- "
"Listen to me, I know you're --- "
"Unless this is all some stunt to get me over there. Is that it, Jackie? Are you aiming for some big family reconciliation? Because I'm warning you now, this isn't the fucking Hallmark Channel and that kind of game isn't going to end well."
"You big gobshite, you," Jackie snapped. "Get a hold of yourself. What do you think I am? There's a shirt in that case, a purple paisley yoke, Carmel recognizes it --- "
I'd seen it on Rosie a hundred times, knew what the buttons felt like under my fingers. "Yeah, from every girl in this town in the eighties. Carmel'd recognize Elvis walking down Grafton Street for a bit of gossip. I thought you had better sense, but apparently --- "
" --- and there's a birth cert wrapped inside it. Rose Bernadette Daly." Which more or less killed that line of conversation. I found my smokes, leaned my elbows on the railing and took the longest drag of my life.
"Sorry," Jackie said, softer. "For biting your head off . Francis?"
"Are you all right?"
"Yeah. Listen to me, Jackie. Do the Dalys know?"
"They're not in. Nora moved out to Blanchardstown, I think it was, a few years back; Mr. Daly and Mrs. Daly go over to her on Friday nights, to see the baba. Mammy thinks she has the number somewhere, but --- "
"Have you called the Guards?"
"Only you, sure."
"Who else knows about this?"
"The builders, only. A couple of Polish young fellas, they are. When they finished up for the day they went across to Number Fifteen, to ask was there anyone they could give the case back to, but Number Fifteen's students now, so they sent the Polish fellas down to Ma and Da."
"And Ma hasn't told the whole road? Are you sure?"
"The Place isn't the same as you remember it. Half of it's students and yuppies, these days; we wouldn't even know their names. The Cullens are still here, and the Nolans and some of the Hearnes, but Mammy didn't want to say anything to them till she'd told the Dalys. It wouldn't be right."
"Good. Where's the case now?"
"It's in the front room. Should the builders not have moved it? They had to get on with their work --- "
"It's grand. Don't touch it any more unless you have to. I'll be over as fast as I can."
A second of silence. Then: "Francis. I don't want to be thinking anything terrible, God bless us, but does this not mean that Rosie . . ."
"We don't know anything yet," I said. "Just sit tight, don't talk to anyone, and wait for me."
I hung up and took a quick look into the apartment behind me. Holly's door was still shut. I finished my smoke in one more marathon drag, tossed the butt over the railing, lit another and rang Olivia.
She didn't even say hello. "No, Frank. Not this time. Not a chance."
"I don't have a choice, Liv."
"You begged for every weekend. Begged. If you didn't want them --- "
"I do want them. This is an emergency."
"It always is. The squad can survive without you for two days, Frank. No matter what you'd like to think, you're not indispensable."
To anyone more than a foot away, her voice would have sounded light and chatty, but she was furious. Tinkling cutlery, arch hoots of laughter; something that sounded like, God help us, a fountain. "It's not work this time," I said. "It's family."
"It is, of course. Would this have anything to do with the fact that I'm on my fourth date with Dermot?"
"Liv, I would happily do a lot to wreck your fourth date with Dermot, but I'd never give up time with Holly. You know me better than that."
A short, suspicious pause. "What kind of family emergency?"
"I don't know yet. Jackie rang me in hysterics, from my parents' place; I can't work out the details. I need to get over there fast."
Another pause. Then Olivia said, on a long tired breath, "Right. We're in the Coterie. Drop her down."
The Coterie has a TV-based chef and gets hand-jobbed in a lot of weekend supplements. It badly needs firebombing. "Thanks, Olivia. Seriously I'll pick her up later tonight, if I can, or tomorrow morning. I'll ring you."
"You do that," Olivia said. "If you can, of course," and she hung up. I threw my smoke away and went inside to finish pissing off the women in my life.
Holly was sitting cross-legged on her bed, with the computer on her lap and a worried look on her face. "Sweetheart," I said, "we've got a problem." She pointed at the laptop. "Daddy, look."
The screen said, in big purple letters surrounded by an awful lot of flashing graphics, you will die at the age of 52. The kid looked really upset. I sat down on the bed behind her and pulled her and the computer onto my lap. "What's all this?"
"Sarah found this quiz online and I did it for you and it said this. You're forty-one."
Oh, Jesus, not now. "Chickadee, it's the internet. Anyone can put anything on there. That doesn't make it real."
"It says! They figured it all out!"
Olivia was going to love me if I gave Holly back in tears. "Let me show you something," I said. I reached around her, got rid of my death sentence, opened up a Word document and typed in, you are a space alien. You are reading this on the planet bongo. "Now. Is that true?"
Holly managed a watery giggle. "Course not."
I turned it purple and gave it a fancy font. "How about now?"
"How about if I got the computer to ask you a bunch of questions before it said that? Would it be true then?"
For a second I thought I'd got through, but then those narrow shoulders went rigid. "You said a problem."
"Yeah. We're going to have to change our plans just a little bit."
"I have to go back to Mum's," Holly said, to the laptop. "Don't I?"
"Yep, sweetie. I'm really, really sorry. I'll come get you the second I can."
"Does work need you again?"
That again felt worse than anything Olivia could dish out. "No," I said, leaning sideways so I could see Holly's face. "It's nothing to do with work. Work can take a long walk off a short pier, am I right?" That got a faint smile. "You know your auntie Jackie? She's got a big problem, and she needs me to sort it out for her right now."
"Can't I come with you?"
Both Jackie and Olivia have tried hinting, occasionally, that Holly should get to know her dad's family. Sinister suitcases aside, over my dead body does Holly dip a toe in the bubbling cauldron of crazy that is the Mackeys at their finest. "Not this time. Once I've fixed everything, we'll bring Auntie Jackie for an ice cream somewhere, will we? To cheer us all up?"
"Yeah," Holly said, on a tired little breath exactly like Olivia's. "That'd be fun," and she disentangled herself from my lap and started putting her stuff back into her schoolbag.
In the car Holly kept up a running conversation with Clara, in a subdued little voice too quiet for me to hear. At every red light I looked at her in the rearview mirror and swore to myself that I'd make it up to her: get hold of the Dalys' phone number, dump the damn suitcase on their doorstep and have Holly back at El Rancho Lyncho by bedtime. I already knew it wasn't going to work out that way. That road and that suitcase had been waiting for me to come back for a long time. Now that they'd got their hooks in, what they had saved up for me was going to take a lot more than one evening.
The note had the bare minimum of teen-queen melodrama; she was always good that way, was Rosie. I know this is going to be a shock and I'm sorry but please don't be feeling like I messed you around on purpose, I never wanted to do that. Only I've thought about it really hard, this is the only way I'll ever have a decent chance at the kind of life I want. I just wish I could do it and not hurt you/upset you/disappoint you. It would be great if you could wish me luck in my new life in England!! but if you can't I understand.
I swear I'll come back someday. Till then, loads and loads and loads of love,
In between the moment when she left that note on the floor of Number 16, in the room where we had our first kiss, and the moment when she went to heave her suitcase over some wall and get the hell out of Dodge, something had happened.
Excerpted from FAITHFUL PLACE © Copyright 2011 by Tana French. Reprinted with permission by Viking Adult. All rights reserved.


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Use this peppery spice blend in the brine for cebollas en escabeche from David Sterling's new cookbook, Yucatán: Recipes from a Culinary Expedition.
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- Yield:Makes about 6 tablespoons
- Active time: 10 minutes
- Total time:10 minutes
- 3 tablespoons (36 g) black peppercorns
- 3 tablespoons (6 g) dried whole Mexican oregano, lightly toasted
- 20 cloves
- 20 allspice berries
- 13 bay leaves
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From: Barry Petchesky
To: Daniel Engber, Luke O'Brien
Mustaches and financiers: I think Luke was right, spectator fatigue is setting in. It's amazing that it always hits around the three-quarters mark of the season, no matter the sport or how long that season might be. In baseball it's the dog days of August; in basketball and hockey it's the annual "it's February, it's cold, it's dark, nothing's on TV, and there are still two months of this crap before the playoffs" realization. And in the NFL it's the lull between Black Friday and college bowls. Half the league's teams have no realistic shot at the playoffs, and the Andrew Luck stakes are all but decided. For many teams, it's time to just play out the string and try not to get crippled.
So if you tune in for this week's joyless Tampa Bay-Jacksonville showdown (tagline: "Because We Can't Just Not Play It"), you might notice that, when divorced from big-picture relevance, the game play is relatively staid. They're going to throw, they're going to run, there will be blocking and kicking and flags. For all football's violence and outward rowdiness, the game itself is remarkably predictable. The rules make it so, limiting just about any attempt at creativity or improvisation. You can't put too many men on the line of scrimmage. You can't get a running start. You can touch the guy guarding you after four yards, but not five. You can't go downfield if your jersey number is between 50 and 79. If you want to have a lineman catch a pass, you need to announce it to the entire stadium beforehand. All these rules exist to enforce a certain orthodoxy of play. The NFL as McDonald's—you know exactly what you're going to get.
It's the way the sport was designed, and the reason the NFL rulebook is 113 pages. James Naismith's original rules for basketball were two typewritten pages, pinned to a gym bulletin board. (Today's NBA rulebook is about half the length of the NFL's.) Basketball! Now there's a sport that encourages—even demands—spontaneity from its practitioners. It's a wide-open game, in which the only rule a ballhandler must abide by as he works toward his goal is constant motion. If blacktop hoops is avant-garde improv theater, then American football is Cats dutifully touring the Midwest. You get tickets because you know you'll be entertained, but don't expect to witness something you've never seen before.
Welcome to the machine. The NFL is McDonald's, and Cats, and U.S. Steel, and that's not a bad thing because they're all to one extent or another leaders in their fields. A consistent quality product pumped out of a tube by a soulless corporation has always been a surefire way to get rich in America. And if the NFL is alone among sports leagues in not bothering to humanize their bureaucracy, it's because there's no sense messing with what works.
The NHL wants to be more than a business; they want to be your friend. (And Dan, if humans are hardwired to root for the scrappy underdog, shouldn't we all be rooting for the NHL?) When there's a suspendable offense, discipline czar Brendan Shanahan publicly breaks down video of the transgression and explains his decision clearly and concisely, in a hockey language we all understand. When suspending one of its young stars for a full eighth of the season, the NFL sends out a terse and unsigned email. Presumably it originated from an orphan-heated vault deep within its monolithic Park Avenue skyscraper, which looks as if it could only be breached by the Impossible Missions Force. The bureaucracy is so labyrinthine and secretive that the NFL won't even share footage from the one camera angle that would actually help you understand the game.
It's not particularly in the league's interests that you understand, as long as you keep consuming the product. It's a "we're number one—why try harder?" mindset that runs the risk of stagnation. Sure, there have been rule changes—a sop to player safety here, a fix to protect stars there—but the game stays the same. The two most radical offensive innovations of the past 20 years are the Wildcat and the spread offense, and both of those can trace their origins to a scheme invented by Pop Warner.
If this sounds like a complaint, it's not. Football is probably God's most perfect creation, and if the price we have to pay for a century of human bloodsport is a few jabs at a No Fun League, we will pay it every time. I'd go so far as to make the argument that the league's lack of artistry falls on the plus side of the ledger. The NFL wants to evoke blue-collar, hard-nosed trench warfare, something with the regularity of clockwork and the faint whiff of potential death. Any frou-frou talk about aesthetics is unwelcome. Luke, you're a guy who tries to find the poetry in boxing and basketball; is there something to be said for football as comfort food?


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The brains behind the Walking Dead comic, Robert Kirkman, has nabbed a new development deal with Fox International Channels. Fox isn't releasing a series title or any details other than the fact that this new show will be about the world of exorcism. But knowing Kirkman, we're just going to assume that this series will be bloody — and that's a good thing.
Here's the full press release:
Los Angeles– 4 March 2013 – FOX International Channels (FIC),The Walking Dead Creator/Executive Producer Robert Kirkman, Kirkman's Skybound imprint at Image Comics, and Circle of Confusion are developing a script based on Kirkman's upcoming comic book series set in the world of exorcism. This partnership emerged from a long-standing and successful relationship between Kirkman and FIC during the ongoing run of AMC's hit series, The Walking Dead, based on Kirkman's Eisner Award-winning comic book series, on which FIC is international partner.
Told through the Kirkman prism, the series follows a young man, Kyle Barnes, who has been plagued by
possession since he was a child. Now an adult, he embarks on a spiritual journey to find answers but what he
uncovers could mean the end of life on Earth as we know it. Kirkman will serve as executive producer alongside The Walking Dead executive producer David Alpert of Circle of Confusion.
Kirkman states, "Sharon Tal Yguado and the entire team at FOX International Channels have been instrumental
in making The Walking Dead the worldwide success that it has become. I couldn't resist the opportunity to
continue working with this forward-thinking and extremely talented group."
"Exorcism has captivated movie audiences all over the world but has never been explored on television," said
Sharon Tal Yguado, EVP Global Scripted Programming and Original Development at FIC. "Robert Kirkman, who
forever changed the scope of Cable TV with The Walking Dead, possesses an unparalleled talent of telling big
concept stories in a smart and incredibly genuine way. We couldn't be more excited to be working with him on this project, which we see as a reinvention of the genre."


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Brighton & Hove Albion continue to set pulses racing in League One. Dave Hartrick went to investigate their progress at Oldham. Or did he....
I should've spent Saturday afternoon at Boundary Park watching my beloved Brighton play Oldham Athletic but due to unforeseen circumstances, I couldn't go. Further to missing the game, I also promised Danny a match report so I have two choices - go cap in hand and explain my absence in the hope that he won't beat the back of my legs with a ruler, or do what any respectable journalist would do and make it up.
As I made my way to Oldham I couldn't help but be excited - this was after all once one of the most productive cotton spinning mill towns in the world (thank you Wikipedia). Coming from Huddersfield, t'is a mere hop, skip and a jump across the moors but in my 21 years living in the North, I have never visited the home of the Inspiral Carpets. As I made my way down the A627 and on towards Hilbre Avenue (thank you AA Route Finder) the anticipation of potentially bumping into Clint Boon was almost feverish. As the stadium loomed in to view, I remembered that if there's one thing EFW loves besides a poorly-judged pun it's a photo, so *ahem* out came my camera.
First glimpse of Boundary Park. I might not get away with this
As I'm sure you'll agree it looks quite magnificent, just the 3 stands because they don't need another. After parking the car in any one of the spots you can see in the photo above, we made our way into the ground hopeful of a great game and some warm hospitality ahead.
I've just had a thought - didn't Oldham have a plastic pitch? They must have got rid of it by now, no one has plastic pitches any more do they? It reminds of that Only Fools & Horses where Del and Rodney are pretending to be tennis players and a girl asks 'do you prefer grass or Astroturf?' for Rodney to reply 'Don't know, never smoked Astroturf.'. I had a friend who smoked Astroturf once, nasty business, always a shame when one dies so young. Also a shame when the word 'halfwit' is used repeatedly at an inquest. Cover your ignorance with another picture quickly.
A pie that I ate. It tasted 'Oldhamy'. I don't know why they do their sauce in the shape of a map of Australia.
So onto the game. Oldham lined up as usual, Earl Barrett and Denis Irwin in defence, Ian Marshall and Andy Ritchie up front. Playmaker Mike Milligan looked to pull the strings in midfield and with Nick Henry, Graeme Sharp and Gunnar Halle on the bench, the Seagulls had an uphill task ahead.
As the game kicked off certain things became clear. Firstly, the plastic pitch could be a factor but coming from Brighton - Katie Price's home town no less - immediately the Albion looked adept at coping with a load of pointless plastic. Oldham looked to pump long balls towards Marshall, manager Joe Royle clearly believing Brighton could be exposed but their back line was simply magnificent.
.I've just realised, if I'm making this up, I may as well go the whole hog.
As the Albion found their stride, the Oldham crowd looked at each other and almost to a man the talk of who's the better footballing side started - Brighton or Barcelona? Among the away fans we were used to such lavish praise but when the home fans began chanting 'It's just like watching Brazil' at Brighton, some of us blushed. I didn't check the official possession stats but I'm pretty certain it was about 85% Brighton, 13% Oldham, and 2% a cheeky little bleeder in the crowd who wouldn't give the ball back at a throw in.
Now throw in an action shot - you're getting away with this my old son.
Earl Barrett in action, it even says so at the side
Brighton surged forward but the half finished goalless despite the away side hitting the woodwork on no less than 14 occasions. After the pie before the game I decided against something to eat but did have a strawberry daiquiri which was an unusual option, but also a delightfully summery one. As the crowd mingled I got talking to a few of the locals, the Oldham born and bred Bernard Cribbins told me a cracking but utterly filthy story about his time voicing the Wombles and a few minutes later, Professor Brian Cox and I got talking about the density of the average neutron star.
Having to cut the Professor off mid-flow seemed cruel but I wanted to get back to the game. With the away end now in buoyant mood, fuelled by a mix of daiquiris and typically Arsenal-esque pace and movement, the second half kicked off with high expectations.
On 67 minutes Brighton had the breakthrough their dominance deserved, Ashley Barnes scoring after beating all 10 Oldham outfield players, several substitutes warming up at the side and 2 over-enthusiastic stewards. Mazy run complete not even the Brighton fans expected him to flick it up and volley in the finish from some 40 yards. As the Albion fans rejoiced, several Oldham fans wept knowing they would never see anything as beautiful again like that weirdo in American Beauty who videoed a plastic bag blowing about - honestly, if he thinks that was good I could take him to a tip in Huddersfield that would blow his socks off. After the high came the low and the game then fizzled out to end 1-0.
To cap things off for the away side, a few miles over the Pennines Huddersfield Town were held to a draw to allow the lead at the top of the table to be stretched by a further 2 points. Even Jeff Stelling admitted on Soccer Saturday it was a great day for Brighton but I didn't see that, I was at the game and not at home in the front room up to my neck in baby sick, Kettle Chips and a half eaten Greggs Mexican chicken sandwich.
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When he was coming out people were comparing him to Warren Sapp and his college game indicated he would be well worth the 5th overall pick that Kansas City spent on him. Can Quinn resurect his career? Or will his knees and back shorten his career? Glenn has averaged 59 tackles and .98 sacks per year which is enough to barely outperform Tyson Jackson. But in comparison Dwight Freeney dropped to 12 tackles and 5 sacks when he was switched to the 3 - 4, so there is a chance the Dorsey could excel in the 4 - 3.
Early on I think it was Scottemojo that was in favor of Dorsey to the Hawks and at the time I was dead set against it. But the more I look in to it, the more it looks like he could do very well in the 4 - 3. I think at the very least he could be what John Schneider likes to call "a good, steady performer."
This is from the NFL's site:
"The most decorated player in the history of the school, Dorsey continued a recent tradition of Tigers defensive linemen earning first-team All-American honors, as at least one LSU player has received that honor since the 2000 season. The defensive tackle's mantelpiece was certainly filled to capacity after the 2007 season, as the consensus All-American and Southeastern Conference Defensive Player of the Year earned several prestigious awards.
Despite constant double- and triple-team coverage, along with late season knee and back problems, Dorsey continued to dominate. He extended his string of at least one tackle made in his last 30 games, and walked away with the 2007 Nagurski Award, Lombardi Award, Outland Trophy and Lott Award, becoming the first player in school history to earn any of those postseason honors."
This is from Walterfootball in 2008
After seeing Glenn Dorsey work out for a chance, the perception has changed a bit in Dorsey's favor. He'll likely be chosen in the top five, but he's not a top-two candidate like he was prior to the combine.
Dorsey did not work out. In fact, he was rushed to the hospital so doctors could perform tests on his knees. This isn't anything new. This didn't just happen. Dorsey has had knee problems the past two years. I know he managed to play through the pain, but who's to say his knees won't get any worse? If you're a team in the top five, and you're thinking about taking Dorsey, and two or three other prospects, the former's knees will probably be the tie-breaker. It wouldn't surprise me at all if Dorsey dropped all the way down to No. 9


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A WONDER goal from Aberdeen winger Jonny Hayes ended Fraser Forster's clean-sheet run as 10-man Celtic lost 2-1 at Pittodrie to suffer the first defeat of their title defence.
And although his team's 26-match unbeaten league run in 2013-14 came to an end, Celtic manager Neil Lennon still praised the players for what he branded a 'magnificent' performance.
Forster had broken former Aberdeen goalkeeper Bobby Clark's 43-year-old Scottish league record on Saturday and it took something special to finally beat him after 1,256 minutes as Hayes struck a spectacular long-range effort.
Having conceded for the first time in 14 Scottish Premiership games, the England international shipped another goal four minutes later when Adam Rooney sent a diving header past him from Northern Ireland winger Niall McGinn's cross seconds before the interval.
McGinn was the last man to score against Forster before Hayes' strike, back on November 23 last year.
Since then the Celtic No.1 has broken a 92-year-old club record, before setting a new Scottish record.
Had he kept a clean sheet last night the former Newcastle United goalkeeper would have been just seven minutes away from breaking Edwin van der Sar's UK record of 1,311 minutes unbeaten during the 2008-09 season.
Substitute James Forrest's excellent finish in the 61st minute got Celtic back in the game following a spell of pressure but they had been up against it from the 11th minute, when Virgil van Dijk was sent off for bringing down Peter Pawlett.
And the Dons held out to inflict Celtic's first league defeat for 10 months since they lost at Motherwell.
"I thought we were outstanding," said Lennon (pictured).
"The sending off changed the game, I didn't think it was a sending off. Our performance was magnificent.
"It's a shame that the run has ended. We deserved to get something out the game. I thought we should have had a penalty for a handball in the second half.
"Being down to 10 men didn't faze us. We dominated the second half.
"It looked like we had the extra man. We dominated and didn't get the rewards all our good play and mental strength deserved, but sometimes you don't get what you deserve in football."
Celtic had won their previous 15 Premiership games and not lost in 26 this season but if any team were to break Celtic's impressive runs, Aberdeen would have been the obvious choice.
Forster previously conceded a Scottish Premiership goal against McGinn three months earlier and the Dons knocked them out of the William Hill Scottish Cup earlier this month.
Celtic started the game well and Jamie Langfield made good stops from Charlie Mulgrew and Scott Brown inside the first 10 minutes after the visitors had carved out shooting chances inside the box.
But the game turned on a loose pass from Efe Ambrose. The Celtic defender gifted possession to Rooney and the Irishman released Pawlett, whose burst of speed took the ball past the sliding challenge of Van Dijk and forced the Dutchman to bring him down two yards outside the box.
Craig Thomson showed little hesitation in brandishing the red card and Neil Lennon filled the hole in defence with Mulgrew, who had started in midfield after Emilio Izaguirre replaced the injured Stefan Johansen.
The Dons enjoyed spells of possession and pressure but Langfield had to be out of his box quickly to deny Nir Biton after a searching long ball from Anthony Stokes.
Rooney was just shy of connecting with a wonderful cross from Hayes but Langfield made another excellent stop after Stokes had set up Biton.
Celtic and Forster's resistance was broken in the 41st minute. Aberdeen were knocking the ball about patiently until Shaleum Logan fed Hayes 30 yards out.
The Irishman took a touch and unleashed a powerful left-footed strike that flew into the top corner.
Logan was involved in the build-up to the second. Willo Flood's crossfield ball found him in space on the right wing and he knocked the ball back to McGinn, whose cross was perfectly weighted for Rooney to run on to and glance a header just inside the far post.
Forrest replaced Kris Commons at the break and helped Celtic start brightly as they put pressure on Aberdeen, who survived a penalty appeal when the visitors claimed Mark Reynolds had handled after a long throw.
Celtic soon got themselves back in the game after another ball into the box when Brown laid it off to Forrest to sidefoot into the roof of the net from 12 yards.
Brown shot wide after a one-two with Stokes before Forster saved from Barry Robson and Hayes as Aberdeen tried to relieve the pressure.
Georgios Samaras replaced Griffiths and Celtic were rejuvenated, but Langfield held a long-range effort from Stokes and was then protected by his defence in the final stages.
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In February 1978, the "Blizzard of 1978" caused unprecedented flooding that resulted in more than $20 million in damage to public and private infrastructure in the State of Maine due to coastal flooding, tidal surge, and high winds. While the impact of the flooding was devastating, the lessons learned from it have dulled in local memory. The City is being proactive and reminding the public of the community's history and potential for flooding, and the simple steps they can take to protect themselves should it happen again.
The City hopes these High Water Marks will provide essential educational opportunities and outreach, but most importantly, enhance the public's awareness surrounding future flood risks. These key components will further achieve the overall goal in becoming a safer more resilient Portland. Additionally, the City has already committed to improving flood resilience through various measures including the Bayside Adapts Working Group and the Climate Action Initiative.
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In hindsight, the Phillies should have dealt Lieber earlier when a mutual arrangement may have been worked out. Now, they have a salary without contribution. As for Pat Burrell, his value is so low, maybe a AA or A ball prospect could be acquired. Another sad case of a player with all the gifts, with financial security who can't return the effort he should to the club that gave him a free lifetime ride.
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SoCal ?? Why not take a chance
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Reading Tea Leaves by McDee
Aug 11 2010 01:30 PM | Tana in Miscellaneous
A quick tutorial for those who are interested
1. Make a pot of tea using loose leaf tea (or cut open a tea bag) about 1 table spoon of loose leaf tea should do
2. Pour tea from pot into a normal sized cup and give it to person you are doing the reading for
3 Have them drink the tea (milk and sugar can be added if required) ensuring they don't swallow the leaves
4. Allow for a small amount of tea to be left at the bottom of the cup, have them swirl the cup around clockwise and then turn it over onto a saucer
5 After a couple of minutes pick up the teacup holding the handle and commence the reading
The handle is the start point (Here and Now) and the as you read further down the cup things get either further in the future or further in the past
The side of the cup furthest from the handle is generally things in the past
I've included a list of shapes and there possible meanings but when you do your readings allow your own intuition to guide you as to the meaning of the shapes you see
ACORN - at the top means success and gain: At the bottom means good health.
AIRCRAFT - journey; if broken means danger of accident; can also mean a rise in position
ANCHOR - cross, Jesus, at top rest, stability, constancy; at bottom means clouded, inconstancy
APPLE - computer, knowledge, achievement
AXE - difficulties; if at top overcoming of difficulties
BABY - something new, pregnancy
BALL - completion, variable fortunes
BELL - harmonics, creation, spiritual, unexpected news
BIRDS - ascension, good news, bird headed beings
BOAT - lifepath, (note size and speed of boat), and visit from a friend, protection
BOOK - you will find your answer by something written, if open it's good news; if closed you need to investigate something
BUTTERFLY - transition, transformation, Butterfly Effect
CANDLE - sacred light, creational flame, help from others
CAT - deceit, a false friend, Cat Headed Beings
CHAIN - DNA, engagement, a wedding, chain link, karma
CHAIR - a guest
CIRCLE - success, completion
CLOCK - alchemy of time and consciousness, better health
COIN - change in financial status
CROSS - protection, sacrifice
CUP - reward, bloodlines
DAGGER - warning, danger from self or others, power
DOG - friend, Sirius, celestial connotation, Egyptian god, Anubis
DOOR - opening (to something new) or closing (old issues and relations), spiritual (portal)
DUCK - money coming, a man named Bill, 'ducks in a row'
EGG - good omen, creation, new beginnings, sacred geometry
ELEPHANT - wisdom, strength, luck, Ganesh, trunk up indicates overcoming obstacles
ENVELOPE - message coming, positive or negative
EYE - creation - open (awakening) - closed (something not seen)
FAN - hand held (pleats) - rotary (4, time divination, numerology)
FEATHER - ascension
FENCE - limitations, minor setbacks, not permanent
FINGER - which finger, pointing in what direction, pointing to God
FIRE - sacred flame, at top achievement; at bottom danger of haste
FISH - Jesus, Creation - Vesica Pisces, Amphibious Gods, good fortune, Christ Consciousness, return of the soul to higher frequency or god
FLAG - denotes nationality
FLY - domestic annoyance
FORK - speak with false tongue, false flattery
FORKED LINE - decision
FRUIT - fruitful, prosperity (depends on the fruit which goes to seeds and planting something new)
GATE - opportunity, future success, ancient civilization, portal, doorway
GLOW - enlightenment
GOAT - be careful of enemies
GUN - anger, sex
HAMMER - hard work needed, getting a point across
HAND - of god, creation, if open means friendship; if closed means an argument
HARP - creational harmonics, love, harmony
HAT - head, consciousness, improvement
HAWK - Horus, jealousy
HEART - chakra, pleasure, love, trust, compassion
HORSE - if galloping means good news; if just the head means a lover or nebula, new
HORSESHOE - good luck, attraction, Earth's magnetics, Omega or Leo, closure
HOURGLASS - time running out, need to decide something, synchronicity, illusion, creation
HOUSE - security, change, success
ICEBERG - danger, planetary meltdown, ice age, consciousness frozen in Time
INSECT - depends which one
JEWELS - DNA, Pearls, Diamonds, Star Tetrahedron, sacred geometry, gifts
KANGAROO - harmony at home
KITE - wishes coming true, flying free
KNIFE - broken friendship, hidden enemy
LADDER - promotion, a rise or fall in life, DNA
LAMP - turned on means enlightenment, at the top means a feast; at the side means secrets revealed; at the bottom means postponement
LEAF - new life
LINES - if straight means progress; if wavy means uncertain path
LION - Leo, Omega, Closure, influential friends, strength, Zoroaster
LOCK - obstacles if closed - new information unfolding if open, lock and key are phallic symbols of creation
LOOP - loops of time and creation, avoid impulsive actions, slinky effect
MASK - something hidden
MOUNTAIN - obstacles or a specific area
MOUSE - theft, computer
MUSHROOM - at top means journey or moving to the country; near bottom means rapid growth; if reversed means frustration, psychedelics
NAIL - injustice, unfairness
NECKLACE - DNA, complete, admirers; if broken means danger of losing a lover
NEEDLE - recognition, admiration, sewing, eye, weaving
OAK - health, long life, tree of life
OCTOPUS - danger, 8, infinity
OSTRICH - travel, not seeking a truth
OWL - gossip, scandal, aliens owl symbology
PALM TREE - success, honor, place were they grow
PARASOL - open (you will glean insightful information), closed (something hidden), raining (water symbology of creation)
PARROT - repeating something, a twin, a journey, people talking and saying nothing
PIG - greed
PURSE - at top means profit; at bottom means lose
QUESTION MARK - need for caution
RABBIT - need for bravery, time and illusion, Alice in Wonderland
RAKE - watch details, planting seeks, reap what you sow
RAVEN - bad news, death that leads to new beginnings
RING - phone call, coming full circle, near the top means marriage or the offer of marriage; at bottom means long engagement; if broken means engagement broken off
ROSE - Rose bloodline, creation, flower of life, love, may be accompanied by a fragrance in the room
SAW - interference, tear apart, something viewed
SCALE - legal issues; if balanced means just result; if unbalanced means unjust result
SCISSORS - quarrels, possibly separation
SHEEP - good fortune
SHELL - good news, nautilus, golden ratio, sea of creation
SHOE - sole/soul, condition of shoe is important, transformation
SNAKE - DNA, wisdom, or if the snake is attacking, an enemy
SPIDER - weaving together, Spider Woman Prophecies
STAR - health and happiness, hope, heavens, Isis and other goddesses, female energies,
SUN - happiness, success, power
SWORD - arguments
TABLE - social gatherings, UFO platform, outside the box
TENT - travel, cover, hidden truth
THIMBLE - changes at home
TORTOISE - criticism, usually beneficial, slow moving, Turtle Island (Earth)
TREE - improvements, of life, creation, book of life, your life path
TRIANGLE - something unexpected, 3 in a relationship, pyramids, 3, third dimension
URN - wealth and happiness
VASE - a friend needs help
VOLCANO - harmful emotions
WAGON - a wedding, wagon wheels (wheels within wheels)
WASP - romantic problems
WATERFALL - prosperity
WHEEL - if complete means good fortune; if broken means disappointment
WINGS - messages, winged beings
WOLF - jealousy
YOKE - domination
ZEBRA - adventure, especially overseas, black and white
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Thank you for this. I had wondered how they were read I'm going to try this on my son later
Big thanks to you Tana ! I'd like to try this !
What no Grim?? Only kidding. Thanks for the info I've not tried reading tea leaves but I have done some study. Seems interesting
This is Awesome...Thank You for posting it!!! I have always been drawn to tea leaves.
Really like this,Tana! Thank you for posting it. :-) Would you mind if I printed myself a copy to keep on hand?
This is McDee's work, I was sorting it out as an article, which is why my name comes up. I am sure he won't mind you keeping a copy!
Ah, I am defo going to give this a go!! Thanks Tana
Thanks! :-)
I have recently become interested in reading tea leaves, but wasn't sure where to start so this was a great help! I copied it down.
Some teacups of mine... whatcha think?
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Eiffel Tower?
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Trojan Horse?
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Figure crouching, possibly with a weapon, possibly an arrow, bird, or butterfly not far off?
Interesting. Tea leaves are always so ambiguous for me, but I'd love to speculate . . .
You were patiently waiting on something, but got tired of waiting or couldn't wait anymore, so you took steps toward your goal (with the help of some friends), and eventually you were ready to "go to battle" or do what needed to be done. This thing you were waiting on somehow set you free either figuratively or literally.
Just guessing . . .
Interesting! Thanks, J
I'm wondering if I could still be waiting....
love the pics Vermilion, and the way you interpreted them Jevne,
I picked out different images from your leaves V, to those you could see, but I have never done this before and I suppose everyone will read leaves differently.
Next cup of tea I have I am going to take the plunge and try this. It will either be a bit of fun, or I will end up gagging on the stray leaves. Bodes well.
Very cool Miss ~V~ !
When I look at the first one, what resonated to me was a Large Bird taking flight from or to a precipice.
When I look at the second one, I see a seahorse and a fox.
When I look at the third one, I see a humanoid figure dispatching a bird, behind the humanoid I see a frog or toad with a crown sitting on a rock, capturing a bird.
The thing is I am not very adept at reading tea leaves, because I can't often identify legitimate images when looking at the leaves. I mean I can identify shapes or outlines, when someone points them out, but the images do not always jump out at me and say "bird", "house", or "tower". I will look at the leaves and a story or scenario will pop into my head. Generally, if I am close to the person for whom the reading is being conducted, the story will have details, some that make no sense whatsoever, at least not until later. My interpretation of the leaves in Vermillion's pictures was based on the scenario that came to mind. It is not past. I don't see the past. I see present and immediate future. Distant future changes with each choice that we make. I would be interested to know if any similar situation develops.
Oh I agree with you Jevne, I'm lame when it comes to tea leaves, but when I saw her leaves, those were what came to mind. Plus I like that you validated it as present and future, as I saw this also, and tried to formulate my words to give this accuracy. ie: landing or taking off, ie: dispatching a bird. The second one was just what I saw. lol. I'm curious also to see how this situation develops.
My boyfriend of 3 years (known him for 6) is considering going to Ireland for law school... but I don't really consider that as me going to battle or being freed...
I may really be amiss with this, but I'll take my knocks. Ms. ~V~, the boyfriend is considering going to Ireland for law school? Is that the same kind of law they practise where you reside? My understanding is they still initiate Parlimentary Procedures in Ireland, ie: Barristers and Soliciters........ Obviously somebody here knows the particulars, I sure don't, I'm just surmizing. However with your numbers skill within your job, you mentioned the tax season on a few posts, and your status. Take it from me, I love/loved Ireland, been there countless times, my crew had to drag my arse every time kicking and screaming when we had to fly out and back to the U.S. If I could of found a way to make a living there, I would of stayed in a heart beat. You have skills, you're young, and those skills, can take you anywhere!!!!
If you don't resonate with being " freed ", perhaps you would entertain, that you are the one, initiating the freedom? Or you are the precipice on which the bird is taking off or landing. Makes me want to play with my own tea leaves, as I'm not so good at reading them, but it's good practice to say the least.
It is a great place here, we live near the border with the rest of Ireland, and its brilliant - very laid back - even the cities run at snails pace! Dublin is meant to be a great city to study in. I know from experience that the bars are many and very lively!
The only down side at the moment is that Ireland is in a big recession, and inflation is growing, so things like fuel, heating and food are starting to rise fast. But isn't everywhere! LOL!
Its much harder getting work, but on the plus side though, businesses still need people to sort out the money end (more now than ever) so probably a plus for your jobs skills. And temp agencies are a good way to get into the job market.
Hope you find a resolution to your dilema!
I know its a bit late for me to be saying what they look like lol! but the third one has always struck me as a woman, crouching in the wind and rain, pulling on her umberella, with a newspaper whizzing past. Bit of a Mary Poppins thing going on.
thanks for sharing the pics V!
Great post! Very straightforward. I tend to always go with my initial feelings of what the symbols mean as well. Sometimes I have a feeling to just trust what I believe, trust what the symbol meanings are, or consider both and interpret them both with each other. I also go into a semi trance-induced state (as well as incorporating other practices) when doing any sort of divination so I can connect with the spirits/make sure I'm getting an accurate reading that is influenced by the spirits.
CG, the civil law programs are similar enough here and there for him to write the bar back here in Canada when he got back. At work, I am simply a receptionist. I am still trying to find my way in life and it's getting tough! I also did not make clear in the post that if he went to Ireland, that I would not be going with him.
He would be staying in the residence, so he wouldn't have to worry too much about cost of living besides paying for residence and transportation. He is looking to go to Galway.
Galway is a great place, there is a big festival there every year too - its much smaller, and quainter than Dublin too, and close to loads of beaches!
I tried to read my tea leaves yesterday, as I got some yummy English Breakfast Tea, on my visit to my Sisters. Well damn..... it said to put in a teaspoon, and I thought I followed the directions, however the tea baloooooned up so much, I had this ever so gnarly looking MESS at the bottom of my cup. When I turned it over it just plopped out like some huge mountainous gunk !
Upon having coffee now today, there were some loose grounds, as we grind our own, and what appeared to me at the bottom of my cup was a Dragon sitting upright on his haunches with a long barbed tail. Anybody wanna decifer that for me? I didn't see that reptile in the list so nicely made by Tana and McDee.
I'm not great at readings, but dragons always bring to mind creation through destruction for me, because of their association with fire - being fire-breathing and all. Just the first thing that comes to mind...
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