couldn't get it right.

right now i'm reading this book...

after being here, i knew i had experienced a place more unique than most but was not and still am not able to articulate anything i saw or felt that day above a 2nd grade speaking level. (ex. um it was incredible and weird and tense?) yep, that's all i can get out. needless to say i wanted more information. obviously i knew the historical significance of this place related to our savior but that doesn't exactly explain why this city feels like it does. and apparently it's not just me; other people feel this too. it's like you own a part of it, like your "wearing" it, like you had already been there before but you have no idea why you feel that way because at the same time it's like no other place on earth. there, that was a little more descriptive but it still makes no sense. see? 

anyway, i watched an interview of this author on tv on our cruise (ironic) and bought it the day we got back to florence. it's one of the biggest books i've ever read but i'm motoring through it. it is beyond interesting and starting to explain a lot of the reasons for the incredibly overlapping cultures of the city of jerusalem. did that sentence even make sense? probably not. 

here is something the author said about jerusalem...

"Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today’s clash of civilizations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel–Palestine conflict, this is the epic history of 3,000 years of faith, slaughter, fanaticism and coexistence."

engaging, huh? i mean look at this place.

pondering on judea, 

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