Sooo....went to Arkansas. SOO good. SO good. Funny how I never really want to go because the crowds are overwhelming to me - this time around it was far more cozy, with fewer people, although there were many congregations in attendendance. It was almost familial. I felt....a part. I felt....like I got to know the saints better. I....learned things about people in my OWN congregation that I had never known! You know - older people are really amazing. Just when you think you know everything about them, they pop out with some other obscure experience you never knew they had. I tell you - sometimes I think they keep stuff back just to whip it out when you least expect it:
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Marilyn: So....Mom? Blank happened when Blank happened, and it made me feel like Blank, and I dont know how I feel about that - isnt life complicated?
Mom: .....
Mom: ......
Mom: ........
Mom: ...pshaw! lifes not complicated, just full of wonder - why, I had that exact same thought back when I was sitting in the Taj Mahal and looking at the domes -
Marilyn: Whaa..?
Marilyn: .....
Marilyn: ......
Marilyn: You went to the Taj Mahal????!!?!?!?!?! When were you going to tell me you went to the Taj Mahal? How has such an experience slipped your mind these many years???
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I rest my case. Point being: I learned interesting and cool facts about the saints - it made me feel closer to them somehow. It was great.
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lol..so, your mom's really been to the taj mahal? wow. yeah, the jubilee was great. i really got to know the saints this time. i have to agree that i liked the small number. it was so much more personalized. didnt realize you didnt like crowds. they're not my thing either. ttyl.
well she hasnt - it was a hypothetical. but she has done things/been places I had no idea about.
I like crowds at sports functions, or out and about in places where youre not expected to know everyone afterwards.
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