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Cynthia's Crystal #1
Cynthia Silvernail was a wonderful old lady who's husband's
name was Walter. He was an inorganic chemist like me. He died of complications
due to Parkinson's Disease. During his long career he worked for Kerr-McGee
Corporation developing uses for rare earth compounds including their oxides. He
invented a formula for a cerium oxide high performance polishing agent for
lenses and reflector telescope mirrors. His polish was used to give the Hubble
Space Telescope's main mirror it final near perfect finish. Look at a Hubble
photograph and you will likely look to its fine resolution as a result of
Walter's invention.
Cynthia collected fine crystal. The big bay window in her
dinning room had several large shelves mounted in front of it holding much of
her collection, providing me with the opportunity to make this picture and
several others. She died last year of cancer. She and Walter are survived by a
daughter and two sons. They lived a good life and
we remember them now with the help of pictures like this.
I believe that the Souls of Cynthia and Walter live on in our
hearts and minds and in the enormous impact that they have made on everyone
living in this world. When we live good lives we lead constructive efforts that
people build upon and nurture. When we live destructively and dishonorably,
others work very hard to undo the effects of our negative impact on their world.
So, the Souls of the good live on forever. Evil Souls are forgotten and are
gradually rubbed out as the burning hot fire of life consumes them. This is
Heaven and Hell.
We create our own Heaven and our own Hell right now, here, in
the present, as the record of our deeds is written in detail on the Great
Quantum Membrane of Life, the parchment of reality. We condemn ourselves to burn
forever in the block universe of frozen time. In the same way, we gain our
reward as our righteous deeds grow and are grown in the greenhouse of this
beautiful world so that they will dominate and take over the universe in the infinite time of
an endless world. | 
