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Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Cashew Wine

I wrote about cashews or rose apples in a post yesterday. Cashews are used to make wine. Cashew wine is produced commercially.

It has been at least 20 years since I have seen a cashew tree. I recall that the tree is first covered with flowers/blossoms before the fruit is "produced." The blossoms usually fall to the ground and lay scattered all around the tree.




















Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Walk in the light

Bible verse:

1 John 1:7:

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.


Cherries

I went walking yesterday. While walking, I stopped to pick cherries from a neighbor's tree. The cherry trees here have lots of (are laden with) cherries. The cherries are sour and good. They help with digestion.

I think cherries are very interesting. In Guyana, there is also the gamma cherries that are used in kite-making.

I like the cherries available in the US a lot. They are different. The color of those cherries remind me of Guyanese cashews (rose apples) that are deep red in color when fully ripe.

It is also interesting that cranberries look like cherries - an example is the holly with cranberry Christmas centerpiece shown below. 






















PhD Statistics

I did well at statistics at Northcentral University (during my PhD). I prepared some of the papers in Florida and some in Maryland while on vacation. I recall working on papers for one of the statistics courses at the Starbucks close to a popular mall in Maryland. I stayed there all day working on assignments. I recall that I needed to use SPSS for the course. I believe I signed up for the student version from IBM. 

A section/excerpt from one of the papers (that deals with the normal distribution - I first learned of the normal distribution during A-levels and then covered at UG):





























Journal Search

I am currently deciding on a journal to submit my research to. I think it should be a journal that publishes papers on careers, preferably one that does not have very strict or rigid requirements (one that publishes more informal papers). A Google search provided some good options. The page https://careerwise.ceric.ca/2020/10/15/career-development-academic-journals/ includes career development journals from around the world. I would like to try one of these journals.

I also need to find a journal for my other paper.


Monday, December 11, 2023

Memories

 The Road of Memories (of Early Childhood)


I walked along the road to school with my mom

She taught me the song Morning Has Broken along the path

When events led to a new school, I needed to take the road to join a bus

I frequently ran out of steam along the road to catch the bus

The road I took to neighbors to deliver a message or attend a party

The road used as the ground for a cricket match that I watched from the verandah

The road I took to Sunday School a few times











New morning

Good morning from Linden, Guyana (in the smallest county Demerara)! The temperature is reported to be 31 degrees Celsius -weather provided by timeanddate.com (https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/guyana/linden/ext).

I noticed a world clock on timeanddate.com. It reminded me of the hotel I ended up staying in/at in Georgetown. In the hotel lobby, there were clocks showing the time in Georgetown (Guyana), U.K., and the U.S. (if I remember correctly).