The Sun Raising

Abigail and Dwayne Shoppa (pictured here) Austin, Texas Ages 29 and 33                                                                Married nine months Abigail:  I never met men through my job (I’m a real estate investor). So instead I had the bad habit of reigniting old relationships, seeing if I could make them work the second time around. In May 2010, my three sisters, with whom I’m very close, and my brother-in-law Chris urged me to try someone new. When I demurred, they insisted on buying me a date at a local bachelor auction for charity. At first, I protested, but eventually I gave in. And once I looked through the online profiles of the men up for grabs, I admitted that a civil engineer named Dwayne looked pretty dreamy. Plus, his bio mentioned that he coached Little League baseball. I love kids. Dwayne:  ...

Movies constantly bombard us with unrealistic expectations of love. Real life, meanwhile, tells us that most relationships are poor, nasty, brutish, and short. But there’s no need to feel depressed about romance. Read on to restore your faith in love. 10 Love Despite The Distance When Irina and Woodford McClellan got married, they never imagined it would be another 11 years until they could be together. In the early 1970s, Irina was living in Moscow working for the Institute of World Economy and International Relations. It was there that she met an American professor named Woodford McClellan. Irina and Woodford fell in love and married two years later in May 1974. Only a short while later, in August, Woodford’s visa expired and he  had to leave the Soviet Union  and return home. Woodford tried to visit his wife in Moscow but was repeatedly denied entry. In turn, Irina was denied permission to leave the country, without explanation. The two newlyweds marked their anni...

… Underwater there is a thing that I call The Deathless Moment, that creeps up on you when the memory of noise has become a static image and you regress to pre-reality, resealing the membrane of suspended time. In that Moment, when there is no hope of communication or self-expression, when you are alone in the perpetual half light and the sun bends its fingers, struggling, down to uproot you, you reach the spot of unmeaning at the heart of reality. It rises to meet you in the brooding depths as though from the mouth of some monstrous sea-creature, a bubble filled with nothing, somehow realising and containing itself by the sheer, baffling fact of its emptiness. And as it hovers for a moment in front of you it trembles from the pressure of your perception, trembles but does not burst. It hovers in front of you and you observe it as you might an eagle that alights, unafraid, on the ground before you, and looks into your eyes with all the majesty of meaninglessness. And then i...

One glance from her eyes so dark and so brown, put him under her spell, his world spun around One smile from her lips, his heart skipped a beat, her womanly spell, knocked him right off his feet One word, just one look, he flew out of control, and her magical spell, touched the heart of his soul Her voice of pure velvet, his thoughts were now drifting, her magic and laughter, her joy so uplifting For her magic, her charms, her feminine ways, would enchant him would capture him, all of his days His heart was now hers, his love hers to keep, for the power of her magic, that moved him so deep For the love in her eyes, sent him out of control, and her magical spell, played the harp of his soul.

Most chemical reactions and biological functions take place in solution. This simple fact has spurred a tremendous research effort aimed at elucidating the effects of the solvent on the chemical or biochemical reactivity. A complete understanding of liquid chemistry requires knowledge of the detailed molecular pathways that are involved in the reaction dynamics. The elucidation of a set of unifying principles describing chemical dynamics in liquids represents a challenge to both experimentalists and theoreticians. The amorphous and dynamic nature of the liquid state leads to reaction systems of exceptional complexity. Any chemical or photochemical reaction in the condensed phase starts off by a redistribution of charge in the chromophore. In particular, light offers a clean way to selectively trigger reactions, both in energy and in time. The first step of any photo induced process is a redistribution of charge in the absorbing atom or molecule. While this modifies the field of fo...

You invaded my private world with your beautiful smile and understanding heart, And I wondered to myself that you were different right from the very start. You listened without judgment to what I had about me to say, And even after I was done with the good, the bad, the ugly you still didn't run away....

Everyone who has ever held a job has, at some point, felt the pressure of work-related stress. Any job can have stressful elements, even if you love what you do. In the short-term, you may experience pressure to meet a deadline or to fulfill a challenging obligation. But when work stress becomes chronic, it can be overwhelming — and harmful to both physical and emotional health. Unfortunately such long-term stress is all too common. In 2012, 65 percent of Americans cited work as a top source of stress, according to the American Psychological Association's (APA) annual Stress in America Survey. Only 37 percent of Americans surveyed said they were doing an excellent or very good job managing stress. A 2013 survey by  APA's Center for Organizational Excellence  also found that job-related stress is a serious issue. More than one-third of working Americans reported experiencing chronic work stress and just 36 percent said their organizations provide sufficient resources t...

There had been many unforgettable moments in my life. I would like to mention one of these. Once I was traveling from Karachi to Lahore by train. I was in first class, so there were only few passengers, with me. At a particular station, they all got off. Now I was completely alone in the compartment. After sometime, a smart lady entered the compartment and sat next to me. She had a very clever plan to rob me. She said to me that if I did not hand over all the money to her which I had, she would complain to the railway police that I had robbed her. When I heard this dreadful speech I was completely and absolutely pass puzzled. I hit a plan to save myself from the wicked plan of that lady. I therefore pretended that I was a deaf and a dumb fellow and requested to write in a piece of page what she wanted to say. She gladly wrote her demand on the piece of paper and handed it to me. I change my seat and took the piece of writing. The railway police come and asked as what the matter w...

9 BEAUTIFUL MESSAGES!! 1) Stay away from anger, it hurts only you. 2) If you are right then there is no need to get angry, and if you are wrong then you don’t have any right to get angry. 3) Patience with family is love, Patience with others is respect. Patience with self is confidence and Patience with GOD is faith. 4) Never think hard about the PAST, It brings tears. Don’t think more about the FUTURE, It brings fears. Live this moment with a smile, it brings cheers. 5) Every test in our life makes us bitter or better, every problem comes to make us or break us, The choice is ours whether we become victims or victorious. 6) Beautiful things are not always good but good things are always beautiful. 7) Do you know why God created gaps between fingers? So that someone who is special to you comes and fills those gaps by holding your hand forever. 8)Happiness keeps you sweet so try n be as happy from within as possible. 9) God has sent us all in pairs, someone...