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For sure that is disappointing pinga ... and hard to watch happen. The job market really is pretty tough these days for many young folk, as you say. Hard to know what to offer, how to support ...
 
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Carolla said:
For sure that is disappointing pinga ... and hard to watch happen. The job market really is pretty tough these days for many young folk, as you say. Hard to know what to offer, how to support ...
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Not just for young people. It's hard for us older folks too. I'm starting in my ministry career at age 50. Not the easiest when many entry-level jobs in churches are for youth pastors - worship leaders - and church planters - all of whom are expected to be young. Also - there are special government programs just to get young people hired. For the past three summers I have been unable to get a job at my own church, at least partly on not being able to qualify for a government program due to my age.
 
Carolla - thank you for going to the Franklin event and for telling me about it. I`d have loved to be there beside you - afterwards we could have had tea and discussed it. Nothing I have heard so far contradicts what I imagined might have happened when I wrote my novel. Even the fact that it is the Erebus, rather than the Terror, that has been found. I`m predicting that the Terror, if it is found at all, will be found nearer to where the note in the cairn said the ships were being abandoned.

The first flurries of the storm started in Fredericton at 7:30 this morning. Seelerman left to join his usual group of men who gather at the mall for coffee in the early morning hours.) Now at 8:20 it is heavily overcast, dark for this time of day, with fine blowing snow. (The Inuit are said to have 100 words for snow - this snow is certainly different from the big heavy flakes that fell a few days ago) I expect Seelerman to be home soon, and we will hibernate for the duration.

Pinga - unfortunately the book (Sue Monk Kidd`s `The Invention of Wings`) is so good that I stayed up last night reading several chapters. At this rate I will finish it before the storm blows over.
 
Looking out the window at the raging storm and praying for those who are homeless or who have inadequate shelter today.
 
@ Seeler - I think your prediction about location of the Terror is likely correct - the teams concur & that is actually the area further north that they had hoped to search last summer, but got 'iced out'. Apparently the water there is much much deeper & they are not optimistic that the ship will be found intact as the Erebus was - so that reduces the likelihood of locating the wreck - individual planks & pieces in deep sea are much harder to identify than an intact hull in shallow water.

Prayers for all who are beseiged by storms to be safe today.
 
chansen said:
Godspeed.
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I don't know if you read novels, and I'm quite sure you don't write them. But can you imagine trying to write a book about a woman who who is only mentioned a half dozen times, and then with only a sentence or two; put some flesh on her, imagine what her life might have been like 3000 years or so ago. What clothes would she wear? What colours and fabrics were available? What food would people eat? What would be grown in the gardens and orchards? What gathered on the hillsides? What flowers? birds? animals? in that area at that time? What jewelry would she wear? How would she occupy her time? What would her relationship be like with her mother, father, husband, sisters and brothers, the other women in the harem, slaves? What does she think? Make her a real woman - someone that the reader will care about. Make the novel exciting, add some tension. And at the same time try to remain true to what little the various references in the Bible give us about her and those around her.

That's the fun of writing a novel.

Actually it is somewhat similar to writing a historic novel about a fictional character on the Franklin expedition - or even a novel about a girl in 20th century New Brunswick.

Thank you for your good wishes.
 
Really? I thought it was borderline funny, at best. Reading it again, I'm disappointed in myself and upset that I can't even blame alcohol for that post, but it got three "likes". Go figure.
 
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