When I was a kid I wanted to be an archaeologist when I grew up. I loved the idea of uncovering lost civilizations and the items of their everyday life. As an 11 year old I gazed in wonder at the treasures excavated from Egypt on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. While I found the mummies unsettling, I did like the jewelry.
In high school I passed on the opportunity to go to camp in Eastern Oregon on fossil digs. That part of the state gets sizzling hot and the reward of rock held insect specimens held no appeal. But well through my teens I harbored a secret desire to travel to some exotic place and dig. Needless to say, that never happened.
In college I became seriously ill my senior year and was unable to complete the optional thesis project in my field. I had a lingering sadness about never having had the chance to spend countless hours in the Harvard library stacks acquiring arcane knowledge to bolster some original idea about poetry between the world wars.
Now, however, I find that doing this work with Lucy Durham seems to be satisfying both previously abandoned passions. Working as an archaeologist I am uncovering things long tucked away in files and on microfilm. As an avid researcher I am able to peruse academic journals at my leisure, enjoying such titles as She Hath Done What She Could: Protestant Women’s Missionary Careers in Nineteenth-Century America.
It turns out it is never too late to have dreams come true!
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Good for you!
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Thanks.
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How wonderful that you’ve found a way to satisfy the archaeologist in you! 🙂 But why on earth did they slip that second ‘a’ into the word? I almost missed it! 😉
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Sneaky. If it weren’t for spell check I would miss it myself.
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It’s great that you are able to fulfil a long held dream.
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Thanks.
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I had the same dream as a child Elizabeth!
Life didn’t work out that way for me either but I love excavating the truth in God’s Word with the archeological findings which are being added to each year. 😊
Blessings,
Jennifer
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Yes. That is great fun to keep learning more as we age. I am glad scholars are still turning up wonderful Biblical sites.
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How great, Elizabeth! I used to teach with a guy whose daughter became an archaeologist. She said some of the work is not so glamorous, but I know she sometimes gets to go on digs.
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She is living out my old dream!
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Being an armchair archaeologist seems to me to be equally satisfying, Elizabeth.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Thanks. And much less dirty!
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You have actually fulfilled your dream, without the sweltering heat and hard rocks. Yes, the connection is much the same. Lucy would be proud.
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The more I read about her, the more I know we are kindred spirits.
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Isn’t that wonderful? Finding deeper connections is a labor of love.
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A lovely dream story
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Thanks.
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Yes, it is never to late for us to realize our dreams and I cannot imagine life without dreams:)
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Mine had been asleep for some time, but I am glad they reawakened.
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So wonderful that you get the opportunity to do this! Bravo!
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It is, as my beloved Aunt Cary would say, a hoot.
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Hi Elizabeth, I am glad you have found a way of fulfilling your dreams through books. I spent a lot of time viewing the Egyptian section of the British Museum and also attended the King Tutankhamun travelling exhibition several years ago.
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I haven’t yet been able to see the British Museum. I hope to in the coming years since my husband has been invited to present in London.
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OH, how exciting. We will be in the UK in December and I am looking forward to it.
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I know you will love your time there. Any chance you will be able to move back there at any point?
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We may do that when the boys finish their education. Greg is at Uni and Michael has 2 1/2 years of high school to go. The UK has a lot of problems at the moment so it isn’t a good time to make a move.
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It is hard to know where to live at the moment. Our grandkids are going to be here for quite a while as they go through school. I understand your dilemma.
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It is our time, Elizabeth. 🤗
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