Photoessay #1523 - Bibles (and muffed files)

Naomi came home from Central Washington University today to try to straighten out her teacher evaluation form AGAIN. She's taking a sacred texts class. She had a Christian bible that she took with her, no she was going to but left it here so got one from somebody else. She realizes that the materials in this version, even the Old Testament, has a Christian slant to it.

So she asked me if we had a Jewish bible, just the Old Testament that she could use.

Blank look from Mom (that's me)

Um, um, do we? I'm thinking. I sort of have a visual image of white with gold printing. Maybe. So I go down to our bookshelves which are all out of order and, believe it or not, truth IS stranger than fiction, I find this Bible. On the shelf.

I think it was given to me at my confirmation. It's Jewish. There's a fancy dedication page by somebody who have beautiful writing. Shavuot 5728, that would be June 1968. Yes, yes, that would be the right time.

So the cover is worse for wear and the dedication page is smeared. But, I have represented and Naomi's feeling better about the whole deal, whew!

So I participated in a non-fiction workshop this afternoon as part of the Writing On The Sound Writers Conference in Edmonds. Which I will be attending the next two days. I enjoyed it, 7 women, one teacher sharing their pieces. But, sigh, I screwed up the file transfer. I had a version of Sleepy Sickness that I initially sent to this Workshop and Theo's class. My workshop date for Theo's class was first, I heavily revised it. Then the workshop people invited us to send the files aguin. I had already sent in the earlier version but this would be a great opportunity to get the revised version done. So I sent that in. I thought. In reality, I had sent the email but not attached the file. So everybody got the old version and I didn't catch on. And I'm wondering why people are commenting on stuff that I thought I had already gotten rid of! Because they were looking at the earlier version, duh. How fun anyway.....

And I will be going to Kol Nidre with Alan and Tess, nice.