back on track

So we did Greek again yesterday, actually got through a NEW chapter. Greg's nice to us, he says we're doing good.

So I started sewing dresses again today, finally. I’m making some with biggish patches, blues and green. I think they'll be pretty. I talked with Jody today a bit about redesigning the bodice a bit; we'll see how our experiments turn out.

I've been listening to a book on tape these days, while I wash dishes and now while I sew again, well in between sewing, mainly while cutting and ironing, I cant hear well with my machine running. Anyway, it’s called "The Decline and fall of the Roman Empire" by Edward Gibbon (the abridged version of course, the original is WAY too long). It’s supposed to be pretty accurate; I mainly became interested in reading it because Historicists of old have used Gibbons history for their interpretations of some of Revelation. It’s helpful to actually know who's who, when the Historicists make references to such and such an event. It’s pretty interesting. There was so much violence during those centuries. The Emperors had so much power, yet could be so easily taken out by the whim of his own military. Gibbon sure was down on Christianity in general. Also he said that a lot of the early martyr stories are fake, that something like only 100 Christians were killed per year over the 10 year persecution time period, unlike what the early Catholic Church had represented, they said a ton more were killed. Anyway, I don’t doubt the Church lying, relics of martyrs were one of their big interests, and snares which they set for the people. Gibbon made an interesting point of noting how many more thousands of Protestants were killed by the Catholic Church than ever by the Emperors, especially Nero, he said he got a worse rap than he deserved in modern history. That was a surpise. I wonder what else I can read to substantiate this. Anyway, bla bla bla, gotta get back to work.