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"it's okay"
The most popular question by far, following a loved ones funeral, is "how ya doin'? (concerned look)". I appreciate it. And here's how I answer that question:
Well, it's not easy, but it's okay. It's been a tough run. The good part is that we had some quality time with Mom to laugh, cry, plan, ask and hear. Lots of people don't get that kind of luxury. Best of all, she's in heaven. And we'll see her again someday.
Of course, this is the answer that adrenaline gives. And, of course, its okay. Biologically speaking, everything is okay right now, since my body has put me into some kind of "just go" trance that keeps my arms and legs moving while I stare at the horizon.
I have been thinking about the death of Jesus, given that we are in the season of Easter. After his resurrection, Jesus catches up with a couple of his disciples, morning His death as they walk down a dirt path, perhaps running on the same adrenaline that I am now. Jesus sneaks up and walks beside them. The disciples don't know that it is the Man, risen. Jesus, disguised as some random walker, asks why they're so sad. He listens as they answer a question that He already knows the answer to, both because He is God and because He is the one they're talking about. Suddenly, their eyes are opened, and not long after that the stranger on the road ascends.
Here's what I find fascinating: Jesus doesn't ease their pain. He lets them pour their sadness out to a divinely disguised stranger. He doesn't bust out a magic wand (does He have one?) and go >POOF<, you're okay now, it's me, etc. He lets them dwell in sadness, as if that's what we're supposed to do. It's another case of God could, but He doesn't, so why is that and what am I supposed to learn?
I should add that what I learn is not the primary motive behind God's actions. The primary motive behind God's actions are to bring glory to Himself. It seems pretty egotistical, insensitive and self-serving, but that's because we know our own hearts. If I try to bring glory to myself, its in vain, since I know that I'm messed up and that I don't deserve it. But God does. So it is fitting for my faith in Him to be deepened during a time of tragedy. See 1 Peter 1:3-9, which helped me out quite a bit this week.
It's okay, says the guy whose arms and legs are moving normally while his eyes search for what cannot be seen.
I've spent most of today sitting and watching my Mom breathe. It will likely be pretty much the last thing she'll do on earth. Her eyes are closed and her hand is warm. She's beautiful. Her sleep is sometimes interrupted by pain, made evident by a grimace or a quiet moan. When that happens, we push a button and medicine is delivered in the most direct way possible. Seconds pass and she's back to a gentle sleep. It's the same sleeping face I remember seeing when I was a scared four year old, laying — cowering, really — next to her while a thunderstorm rumbled through. I knew I was safe because she seemed okay with the whole thing, mumbling that it was okay and that I could go back to sleep. I laid next to her and felt safe. She was asleep. Soon, so was I.
I wish I could say I felt the same kind of safety and comfort now. I can't. Not yet, at least.
Attention Christians: Yes. Jesus makes it okay. But Jesus still wept when Lazarus died. Believe me, I know the Max Lucado lines. I've delivered them and have heard even more. Platitudes didn't work on a weeping Savior and they don't work that well on me right now. It's okay to dwell in the pain, so don't feel like I need to be talked out of it, Christian style. Let me recommend that you instead take a moment to somehow thank your mom for something she did for you when you were little. Just a little Pastoral advice, I suppose.
Thanks for praying for me and my family right now. Your support is much appreciated. Soon, Mom will be with Jesus, the same One who wept with those who wept and now reigns over all, conquering sin and removing the sting of death.
Brick and Mortar Bookstore
I'm looking over a sea of books that reaches to every possible edge, stacked on shelves which are stacked on an expanse of floor. Within a 30,000 square foot space, I can see 6 people browsing the store and making their decisions about which book they'll go home and order on Amazon. A mom picks through children's books and finally settles on a Mercer Meyer book, perhaps hoping that her kid will finally submit to brushing his teeth. A man that looks like Harry Potter's lesser known brother, Bill Potter, is talking quietly on his phone while he wanders up and down the aisle of books about web design. A daddy and his daughter are slowly working through the best-seller tables, always with an eye on the next stack. A girl flips through magazines with general malaise, consulting a hand-written list with growing boredom.
The lady with the knee brace is obviously a search party, looking for someone and trying to peer over the short shelves, despite her shorter disposition. She is walking too swiftly for a person wearing a knee brace, perhaps driven by the urgency that comes with the feeling that she lost him, this time in a book store.
He's looking at maps. His leather coat has an international flare, as if he's planning a motorcycle tour through Belgium. Who knows? Maybe not even he does. Knee brace breezes past him and continues the search, so it's obviously not him. Looks like it will be a motorcycle trip for one.
A woman with a nagging purse is peering, head cocked, at the spines of graphic novels. She takes a book off of the shelf but does not merely judge it by its cover, taking the time to judge it by thumbing through some pages in the middle. If she pauses long enough mid-flip, she ends up turning the book over and reading the back cover, using her free hand to push a chunk of hair out of the way.
Motorcycle Leather is now rambling through the sports & fitness category, stopping again to take a right turn into the travel section. Something pulls him back to this section, as if an irresistible power is whispering that he should expand his horizons and finally have that mid-life crisis that so many of his friends did back in the 90's.
A bookstore employee squeezes behind Motorcycle Leather, wheeling an empty hand cart as if it will bounce customers out of the way as he makes yet another trip to the front of the store. He's probably the guy who put those travel books there in the first place, one night, after everyone left. And he will probably be the one who rearranges them again before the day is done.
Graphic novel girl is checking out, having finally found what she was looking for. Would she like to join the rewards club and get 10% off? Probably not, what with the whole bankruptcy thing and all.
Daddy and daughter have left the store. They did not buy. They did not join the rewards club.
Bill Potter disappeared, too. Perhaps he used his powerful rewards club card to pull this off?
Mom puts the Mercer Meyer book on a shelf in the travel section, a section that is now missing its best customer of the last 20 minutes. Cart guy sees what happens when mom puts the kid's book in the travel section, exhales heavily and makes a note to grab it on the next trip. The wheels of the cart squeak loudly, which was much easier to ignore now than it was when his shift began.
Airplane Holes
I have a philosophy as it relates to air travel, expressed in three distinct axioms:
1. The TSA can, but I'm not going to like it.
2. I might need two seats, using the first for my carriage and the second for my legs.
3. No holes in airplanes.
There are other guidelines that I abide by, but these three are, as of this extemporaneous writing, the most important points of air travel for me.
I revised my third axiom following an incident involving a Southwest 737 that made national news after the atmosphere ripped a hole in the body of the plane, causing a sudden drop in pressure and leading to an emergency landing, possibly ending up in some crazy old lady's yard. You know the type, with the double-barrel shot gun and the ironclad grip on trespassing laws, the cackling laugh and the broken english. I'm not sure if the last part happened, but everything else did.
After the whole hole thing, Southewest elected to inspect its other planes, and, surprise, found more subsurface cracks that would theoretically cause the same kind of disaster to take place. Hm.
I compare these happenings with the general principle, spoken by pilots everywhere, that air travel is safer than driving. I've never had a hole form in the fuselage of my Jeep, so I guess I'm comparing apples to oranges here. The Jeep does have some subsurface cracks, so I'm keeping the Bondo handy.
Here's my solution: combine the relative safety of air travel with the adventure of the open road by having the plane drive. Passengers board the plane, the tower clears them, not to take off but to merge, the pilot turns his blinker on and merges on to I-94 and hits I-275 and then I-75 south, all the way to beautiful Jacksonville, Florida. Bridges and overpasses will not be a problem after the first bridge, since that will snap the tail clean off. With so many scrap metal yards in Metro Detroit, the highway will go into the kind of frenzy not seen since the great cupcake spill of '89.
We can stop at some Waffle Houses on the way, eating in shifts OR stopping at a classy exit with multiple Houses of Waffle. They really do exist, by the way.
If truckers are being persistent and passing the guy going 55mph by driving 56mph in the Left lane for 9 miles, then we can momentarily gain altitude to make passing traffic a breeze. Also, the accompanying breeze from the engines will be appreciated by other motorists who think that air conditioning is the reason their mileage is so bad on the Hummer.
Once we get to Florida, it's just a matter of parking someplace that has room for a jetliner. They call it an airport, so no worries there. Also, because we've been going 100mph, we're there in no time flat. The captain/co-captain driving rotation makes even more sense when you're fly-driving (or flyving), since their shifts always allowed one to drive and the other to sleep.
Bathrooms on board would reduce the need for a stop at a Rest Area to a minimum, only pulling over after the Stuffed Pork Ala Mode is served on the first evening. Listen, it's a plane, not a miracle worker.
If the police should pull the plane over for speeding, opening questions like "do you know how fast you were going?" can be deflected by asking the officer "well… do you know how far above sea level you were?". Dumbfounded, the policeman will go back to his car and try to run the plates, but to no avail. It broke off in Cincinnati.
That's my idea. Flyving. It would truly be the best of both worlds. And the best part? If a hole forms in the body of the plane, we'll just take turns poking our heads out to get a new perspective on our very safe trip to sunny, spacious Florida.
Garrison Keillor Said…
Garrison "Well, it's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my hometown (applause).." Keillor said that taking a walk is one of the best things you can do when you're feeling down, confused, or unsettled. We're dealing with quite a bit as a family right now, of which some readers of this blog are already aware. I won't say much, yet, since I think it needs the dignity of staying "unspoken", if you'll pardon the language of the Christian subculture. It's nothing bad, well, I mean, nothing bad like a bad moral decision or anything — just the natural progression of life.
So, I'll now take a walk to mark the end of a rather long last two weeks. The journey is not complete, but I think ol' Gary is right: walking is good for the soul. I wonder if its because God can finally get his hands around us, if we let Him, to give us a cosmic hug and whisper that it's all going to be OK, because the same one who holds me also holds eternity.


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ANAHEIM – The ideal situation for a Ducks defense corps that's still working toward some consistently strong play might have been discovered in Monday's 2-0 home victory over the Kings.
Not only were all six defenders either even or plus players on the night but they all saw a balanced amount of ice time between the 16 minutes, 57 seconds that Paul Mara played and the 21:54 that Andy Sutton logged.
One factor that certainly helped was there were only five minor penalties called between the teams, with the Kings getting three power plays and the Ducks having two. But Ducks coach Randy Carlyle would love for that to be the norm more than the exception.
"We like to have that equal distribution throughout your defense corps for sure," Carlyle said Wednesday. "You'd like that everybody would get somewhere between 17 and 21 minutes.
"If you could have that blueprint at the start of the season, you'd say, 'Yeah,' you'd like that to happen. I'm sure every coach would. But that's not the reality from game to game."
But in the post-Scott Niedermayer and Chris Pronger era, the defense has been built with more of a committee approach and a balanced amount of ice time would serve well for the effectiveness of the corps over the long run. On occasion, Carlyle has noted his concern over Lubomir Visnovsky's ice time, which is at about 25 minutes a night.
"I think it just shows that they can have the opportunity to be on the ice and be fresh," Carlyle said. "It's not where they're getting taxed."
Toni Lydman said that effectiveness often depends on the kind of minutes they're playing. As Visnovsky walked by in the Ducks dressing room, the veteran rearguard joked that his defense partner can play "30 if there's a lot of power plays."
It is a lot different if you're bottled up in your end or constantly having to kill penalties.
"Some games you play a lot but it doesn't seem like it because you've been controlling the puck," Lydman said. "Your team has it in their zone. It makes it easier. Then again, you have a lot of penalties and you stay in your own end, that's when 22 minutes seems like 26."
But Lydman has no qualms with the ice time he's getting, which is more than 23 minutes a game on the top pairing. It's a big difference from last season when he logged a career-low 18:52 average in his final season with Buffalo.
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Taken as part of western/cowgirl/country themed shoot, which to be honest I'm not entirely sure we nailed but I feel we got some great images anyway. This shot has only been cropped slightly and never had a head, can that still make it a portrait? Holly has a love for country music and her guitar and I wanted to capture this. I feel it could almost be an album cover or a tour poster. Thoughts as always gratefully received.
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I like the texture on both the ground and the background wall, however I think the horizontal line can be rotated slightly to be 180° and ensuring the rotation aligns the vertical beam to the right at 90degrees to the ground.
I think the composition gives credit to universality of music rather than focusing on the musician. I don't mind the chopped head.
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I fully agree with Alastair here, and I feel that a level shot is paramount. The body being complementary to the guitar makes the top half irrelevant. Perhaps the model may feel a little bit ignored but it is in a good cause. However the shot being as it is, in answer to your question - I don't see it as a portrait.
I like your treatment of the final image.
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Hi Alistair, I agree, you modification looks better. Thanks to all for the feedback.
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I like this shot. Alistair is right about the horizontal, however there is another issue that happend with a wide angle lens. When you tilt the camer down, as here, you introduce the issue of diverging verticals, which you can see by loking th the right side, where the frame (door?) is not vertical. So getting down lower can help reduce this by tilting the camera less.
I removed the lens distortion in the modification using Photops lens correction tools which have a profile of your lens.
Hope this is helpful,
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Thanks Willie.
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Had overlooked the diverging lines issue - will keep an eye for that too in the future both in my work and reviewing others'. Good point Willie.Last Modified By alistairfarrugia at 11 Sep 2012 - 10:55 PM
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i like this a lot but id be tempted to crop just a bit of the base (a full decking strip to just under the feet) and a little off the top. i think that would concentrate attention onto the main A shape of the image . Id also be tempted to crop a strip onto the fence post to balance the left side better.
its a great and pretty brave crop to start with, dosnt need a nead at all. nice skin tones too on the legs.
well seen
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I think Phil's feedback is great too. Would definitely enhance the image
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Thanks Phil, Im still learning and all this critique is great.
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OK, they could do it (though if you're ignoring one of the fundamental properties of the omega molecule, why not just ignore all the problematic properties of the omega molecule?). So the Federation has scorched an entire volume of space (permanently) to stop a fleet from traversing it temporarily. The problem - the war - is not solved, it's just slowed down. I imagine the Dominion would just send ships through the disruption at slower-than-light speeds. They've demonstrated that they are a patient civilization. They wouldn't call off a war just because the trip to the fighting would be too slow!
Alternatively, the enemy fleet either goes around the area, in which case you've just bought some time by creating a permanent disruption in traffic, and given
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side. Send a changeling to Earth and have them detonate an omega molecule at the heart of the Federation. You've escalated the war.
Or the enemy just finds another way through the disruption. For instance, would a slipstream drive be stopped by an omega molecule's disruption? Or would a transwarp tunnel be affected?
Anyway, it's an over-reaction. It's boiling away the oceans to keep the enemy navy from reaching your shores, and destroying the atmosphere to keep the enemy bombers from flying over your cities. Why do it?
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I can see that, but I would've rather had a Borg v. Sisko: Round Two over just about any of the Voyager Borg episodes. When I think about it, I don't quite get that reasoning. For one, all Trek shows are in a shared universe so they should all have been able to use adversaries from other series, and to a great extent they did: Klingons, Romulans, and Cardassians primarily were used by all three shows. So, why not the Borg?
I could accept the argument that they were TNG's thing, if VOY hadn't used them, and used them, and used them. Conversely, I wouldn't have minded if VOY and a TNG film could've found a way to use the Dominion either. If anything, a shared threat makes it bigger to me.
Further, I wouldn't have wanted the Borg to become a recurring adversary on DS9, just a show or two to show Sisko getting some serious payback. Plus it would've been cool seeing how the DS9 crew dealt with them.
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The bats: 1B J.P. Arencibia struck out in consecutive at-bats against LHP Scott Kazmir to end an inning with runners in scoring position. Arencibia left five runners on base in the at-bats. … In the third, coach Gary Pettis held RF Alex Rios at third on a two-out double by 3B Adrian Beltre. J.P. Arencibia followed with his first strikeout. … In the fifth, DH Shin-Soo Choo hit into the Rangers' 98 double play of the season. Boston leads the majors with 100 double-play grounders.
The gloves: In the first three innings, the Rangers had three errors on two balls hit by former teammate Craig Gentry. Mikolas made a wild throw to second on his grounder in the second, and SS Elvis Andrus had two errors – bobble and throw -- on a Gentry grounder in the third. … In the third, 2B Adam Rosales took a bad angle on a pop-up by Jed Lowrie, dropped the ball but recovered to get a force at second.
RHP Miles Mikolas threw wildly trying to get a force at second, opening the way to a big inning. Yoenis Cespedes drove in the final two runs with a double. Athletics 5, Rangers 0.
Adam Rosales hit his first major-league home run since Aug. 23, 2013. Athletics 5, Rangers 2.
John Jaso drove in two runs with a double. Jaso is hitting .406 for 32 at-bats against the Rangers this season. Athletics 8, Rangers 2.
The Athletics added a two-out run on Josh Reddick's single. Athletics 9, Rangers 2.
Adrian Beltre, who had two balls die at the left-field warning track in this series, led off with a homer. Athletics 9, Rangers 3.
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I will be arriving into Morges a town near Lausanne, Friday Morning, Should have the AIR9 out of the box and built up by Friday afternoon. I can ride Saturday or Sunday 30-31st.
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Travel to the USA and Canada, touring from Chicago to New York via Boston
Take the long way round on this classic journey from the all-American skyscrapers of Chicago to some of Canada's and the United States' most cultured cities and sites. After chowing down on some deep-dish pizzas and strolling the leafy lakeside surrounds of Chicago, make tracks for Toronto – Canada's newest hipster haven – before witnessing Niagara Falls and then stopping over in the history hotbeds of Montreal and Boston. Whether it's art, food, urban culture or nature that brings you to this corner of the world, this 10-day adventure won't disappoint.
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- Gaze up at the sky-high architecture of Chicago
- Marvel at Niagara Falls
- Say bonjour to Montreal's delectable food scene
- Walk the revolutionary road in Boston
- Get to know the neighbourhoods of New York
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By Angela Mollard Pictures: Gina Milicia After a tough year behind the scenes, TV star Shelley Craft is back on track... When Shelley Craft makes a few life changes, she doesn't do things half-heartedly. In the past few months, she's thrown in her job on The Great Outdoors, split from her husband of eight years and moved from Sydney to Melbourne. It's the sort of upheaval which would find many cowering in a corner, but instead the girl regarded as television's bubbliest blonde is flourishing, appearing on Nine Network programs Domestic Blitz and Australia's Funniest Home Videos. But for all her optimism, Shelley has just gone through the hardest time of her life and still struggles to make sense of what she's experienced. Even now, many months after the breakdown of her marriage to marketing expert Brett De Billinghurst, her eyes fill with unshed tears as she says, "My life was a fairytale but then it doesn't always turn out how you think it's going to." For the first time, 32-year-old Shelley talks about the struggle of the past 12 months and why, ultimately, she remains so full of happiness and hope for what lies ahead ... Domestic Blitz is proving enormously popular. Why do you think it's so successful?
We're making a difference to someone's life and they're really deserving people. Even though the hours are ridiculous and we're sometimes working until 2am, you feel you're doing something worthwhile. That was another reason for me leaving The Great Outdoors — it was hard staying in five-star resorts in Third World countries. Last year I went to Chennai in India and it was horrifying. These people had lost their spirit and their joy — they had lost what makes us human. As a travel reporter you have no real chance to help or become involved in their cultures. You're always seeing it from the outside. Has the upheaval in your life and this new show changed the way you feel about home?
I recently moved to Melbourne and, fortunately, having travelled so much I'm very good at settling in and finding the heart and soul of a place. Home is really important to me and I'm a mad decorator — homewares is my Achilles heel. During all those years of travelling I always cried whenever I left and always cried whenever I landed back home, even if I'd only been to Noosa for three days. You recently cut your hair short. Was that in reaction to all the changes in your life?
I'd always wanted to do it, but on The Great Outdoors they'd sometimes hold stories off so my look had to be consistent. I hadn't had short hair since I was 12 so I just did it and didn't realise it would have such an impact. My Mum has since had her hair cut shorter, too. How have you managed to stay so slim after all those years travelling and eating in restaurants?
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Military Budget Funds Three Big Navy Projects in Kitsap
Kitsap County Navy bases are in line to get $223 million from next year's military construction budget, according to Sen. Patty Murray.
The bill moved through the Military Construction Appropriations Subcommittee, of which the Washington Democrat is a member, and the full Appropriations Committee. Once military construction bills get that far, Congress generally pass them and the president generally signs them. There's $398.8 million in it for Washington.
"This bill doesn't just make physical improvements to our state's bases, it invests in improving the quality of life for our service members and their families," Murray said in a news release. "This funding will help create jobs, get local economies moving and ensure that Washington state remains home to some of our country's very best military facilities and service members."
The legislation includes $69 million to continue work on an aircraft carrier pier at Naval Base Kitsap-Bremerton and $154 million for two projects at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor.
In Bremerton, crews from the joint venture Nova Group/Tutor-Saliba of Napa, Calif., are demolishing and replacing 60-year-old Pier Bravo. They were awarded the $124.5 million job in May 2008. This is the second of two payments, said Cmdr. Manny Bautista, operations officer for Naval Facilities Engineering Command at Bangor.
The new pier will be 125 feet wide — more than twice the width of the old one — and 1,325 feet long. The work, which is about 25 percent complete, is scheduled to wrap up in January 2012.
The two Bangor projects are a waterfront security enclave and a production and storage complex.
The enclave, which is getting $67 million, is a 10,500-foot-long fence system from south of delta pier to north of the explosives-handling wharf. The contract is expected to be awarded early in fiscal year 2010, which begins on Oct. 1, Bautista said.
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Dog survives 100m cliff plunge in Northern Territory
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A MAN and his dog have had a lucky escape after a motorhome plunged 100m down an escarpment.
Senior Sergeant Louise Jorgensen told the NT News the 60-year-old man was travelling around Australia with his dog when they pulled up at the Timber Creek lookout in the Northern Territory about 6.30pm.
She said the man got out of the car to take photos of the sunset, leaving the dog in the home and the engine running.
''He walked about 10m, but all he got photos of was his motorhome tumbling down,'' she said.
Sen-Sgt Jorgensen said the man then walked down the steep embankment to the wrecked home, to find his dog had miraculously survived.
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In "The Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels," Janet Soskice, professor in philosophical theology at the University of Cambridge, tells the fascinating story of the remarkable identical twins who made one of the most important scriptural discoveries of modern times.
In 1892, Scottish twins Agnes Lewis and Margaret Gibson in the Greek Orthodox monastery at St. Catherine's at Sinai found a palimpsest -- a parchment manuscript that has been written on more than once -- with the earlier writing incompletely erased and legible. The discovery has proven to be one of the earliest known copies of the Gospels in the Syriac dialect of Aramaic, the language spoken by Jesus.
The idea that two women in the Victorian age would travel in the Middle East, as Lewis and Gibson did, was unusual for the time. The sisters' mastery of classical and modern languages, mostly self-taught, was even more unusual. Extremely wealthy and devout Presbyterians, the sisters regarded the extraordinary achievements of their lives as the work of a greater providence.
The girls were born on Jan. 11, 1843 in Irvine, Scotland to lawyer John Smith and his wife, Margaret. Mrs. Smith died only two weeks after the birth of the girls. Smith never remarried and educated his daughters, more or less, as if they had been boys with an emphasis on study and exercise.
Finding that his young daughters had a gift for languages, he entered into a pact with them: For each foreign language they should learn, they would be taken to visit that country. With travel as an incentive, the girls mastered French, German, Spanish and Italian while still quite young.
Smith died when his daughters were 23 years old, leaving them very wealthy. Unconventional for their time, to assuage their grief they traveled to Egypt and the Holy Land a few months after their father's death. After returning from this year-long trip, the sisters moved from Scotland to London. Later, they would move to Cambridge.
Both sisters wed in their 40s and were widowed after less than four years of marriage. At age 49, they began their adventures as amateur Bible hunters in the Middle East.
Soskice is at her best when describing the journeys to the Middle East. In January 1892, the sisters left Cairo for a nine-day journey to Saint Catherine's at Sinai. Along the way, they slept in tents and endured temperamental camels and an unscrupulous dragomen (travel guide), while facing uncertain welcome from the monks deceived by earlier travelers and scholars in pursuit of artifacts.
The sisters were welcomed by the monks and allowed to visit the library and to explore the contents of a dark closet. It was in this closet that Agnes Gibson saw the underwriting of an earlier Syriac Gospel beneath a text on the lives of female saints in a bound book of parchment. The sisters returned to Cambridge with more than 300 photographs of the manuscript and a desire to convince scholars at the university of the importance of their discovery. This led to a second journey to Saint Catherine's with Cambridge scholars along as experts to validate their find. Upon returning to Cambridge, the scholars attempted to take the bulk of the credit, and soon the twins found themselves engaged in a series of well publicized rows.
The sisters never backed down and studied intensively to become experts in Syriac themselves. Despite their lack of formal training, Lewis and Gibson became renowned scriptural authorities and collectors of ancient manuscripts.
Janet Soskice's research is impeccable, the story itself is an inspiration, and the telling is first-rate. "Sister of Sinai (Knopf, 2009)" is one of my favorite books of the year.
Gloria Barton is a librarian at the Lee County Library in Leesburg.
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