ASL doesn’t equal Age/Stats/Location to me anymore.
In this case it means American Sign Language. My mother-in-law communicates mostly using ASL (and especially fingerspelling) and I am endeavoring to learn some. It is actually very interesting, and it is sort of a dance with hands. Some of the signs are fun to do and often they have some relation to the meaning of the word being signed.
Here is a great website with drills for finger spelling. Here is another website by the same guy with lessons to learn signs for words rather than for letters.
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What’s been going on? I moved for the second time in two months, which is more times than I’ve moved in my life, ever. I have relatively few belongings to move, however. It’s the least amount of things I’ve ever lived with in my life, except maybe when I was very little and had none of my own possessions. It is very interesting to be living with less. Living with my family on a bus has been the best training to suit me to living with less; I had to live in a 3×3x6 foot rectangular bunk, and pretty much all my belongings had to be stored there as well as serve as a sleeping area.
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I am in the process of reading Training In Christianity, by Soren Kirkegaard. It is one of my husband’s books that I picked up just to see what Kirkegaard is all about. How interesting!!
I read so many interesting things in the first two chapters that I wish I had taken notes down on them all, but one that I jotted down in the back of my notebook is “Oh, where heart-room is, there house-room is always found.” It is deep reading that takes me much longer than usual to comprehend. Each sentence is one to be read once, and then pondered. One of his laments particularly struck me - how many times do we ask people what their problems are just out of curiosity rather than compassion? How often have I asked people “What’s wrong?” in just curiosity instead of in compassion with a true desire to help?
I am also about halfway through studying Luke with my husband and that has been the most interesting reading ever. We are reading through Richmond Lattimore’s New Testament, which so far I would highly recommend. There are no verse markers, and it is much like reading a book. Very cool, and very interesting. There is something about rote studying of a particular version (in my case, the NIV) that leads to some sort of inoculation of the words. It’s as if passages I have always passed by in a rush with - “oh, I already know what that means” - are coming alive again, and coming to light.
Also, I am reading through Mere Christianity, by CS. Lewis.
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What if Jesus is meant to be taken literally? What are we supposed to do, then?
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