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, and The Beatles for the music to keep me going COVID-19 for making it all so much harder And so... more , and The Beatles for the music to keep me going COVID-19 for making it all so much harder And so too therefore in a quiet did he leave, and did as he was asked, unable to refuse. He started with what was obvious, what was always there and would be: skies, fields, hills, trees, colors, rivers, seas, and then, remembering his garden and the small things within it, he named the way light fell and splintered through leaves, the sounds of a grassblade growing, the heart of an afternoon, beating. When nothing else could fit, when all was found, he returned a while later to the house and his garden, the foot-flattened path. But just within sight of the well, coming over the ridge, he heard the voice once more. Look down, it said, look down. And so down he looked, down over the stone, to the foot of the well, where he saw his own face, unnamed and alone, and noticed himself. It hung there, suspended, trembling a moment with light, a strange artifact, unearthed, unlike anything he'd found. He dropped the bowl. In a breath it was gone. He dropped all that it held, and the world fell away, piece by piece. He could not have held on any longer. Everything he had gathered, all that was named, was lost, now, forgotten, remote and unknown, and so, with his life still undone and wild around him, he started again, started back at the beginning. Only this time, knowing nothing, but his own small name.
Thrita
Background: The increased use of antibiotics has led to the frequent occurrence of resistant bact... more Background: The increased use of antibiotics has led to the frequent occurrence of resistant bacterial strainsá¾½ infections and increased side effects. It is inevitable that medicinal plants and their good antimicrobial activities for controlling and curing different infectious diseases is always a salient feature of various investigations. Also, understanding the plant species in the light of the Holy Quran, religious texts, and the sacred books could make a useful contribution to studying two significant plants used as ancient and reliable medicines. Objectives: The present research used two plants for medicinal products to evaluate their antimicrobial activity. Ziziphus spina-christi (sider) is a medicinal and traditional plant and ethanol and methanol extracts of its leaves have been used against some bacterial and viral infections. Another herbal remedy is Tamarix aphylla with the local name of Ghaz, as the largest known species of Tamarix. The stem smoke of Tamarix aphylla is u...
, and The Beatles for the music to keep me going COVID-19 for making it all so much harder And so... more , and The Beatles for the music to keep me going COVID-19 for making it all so much harder And so too therefore in a quiet did he leave, and did as he was asked, unable to refuse. He started with what was obvious, what was always there and would be: skies, fields, hills, trees, colors, rivers, seas, and then, remembering his garden and the small things within it, he named the way light fell and splintered through leaves, the sounds of a grassblade growing, the heart of an afternoon, beating. When nothing else could fit, when all was found, he returned a while later to the house and his garden, the foot-flattened path. But just within sight of the well, coming over the ridge, he heard the voice once more. Look down, it said, look down. And so down he looked, down over the stone, to the foot of the well, where he saw his own face, unnamed and alone, and noticed himself. It hung there, suspended, trembling a moment with light, a strange artifact, unearthed, unlike anything he'd found. He dropped the bowl. In a breath it was gone. He dropped all that it held, and the world fell away, piece by piece. He could not have held on any longer. Everything he had gathered, all that was named, was lost, now, forgotten, remote and unknown, and so, with his life still undone and wild around him, he started again, started back at the beginning. Only this time, knowing nothing, but his own small name.
Thrita
Background: The increased use of antibiotics has led to the frequent occurrence of resistant bact... more Background: The increased use of antibiotics has led to the frequent occurrence of resistant bacterial strainsá¾½ infections and increased side effects. It is inevitable that medicinal plants and their good antimicrobial activities for controlling and curing different infectious diseases is always a salient feature of various investigations. Also, understanding the plant species in the light of the Holy Quran, religious texts, and the sacred books could make a useful contribution to studying two significant plants used as ancient and reliable medicines. Objectives: The present research used two plants for medicinal products to evaluate their antimicrobial activity. Ziziphus spina-christi (sider) is a medicinal and traditional plant and ethanol and methanol extracts of its leaves have been used against some bacterial and viral infections. Another herbal remedy is Tamarix aphylla with the local name of Ghaz, as the largest known species of Tamarix. The stem smoke of Tamarix aphylla is u...