This example of love and loyalty is remembered to this day such that when someone demonstrates those qualities, one might remark, “Oh, that is like the wives of Decembrists.” So it was on 5-25-11 when I attended a legal conference at the InterContinental Hotel in Kyiv, Ukraine. The small group at our table was getting acquainted during a break. I described my responsibilities and related our experience in Africa. I was asked what my wife did. I explained that she traveled everywhere with me and then related the experience in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania when I hurt my back and she went to the Annual General Meeting of the Church legal entity there and conducted the meeting for me. When I finished describing how she went alone in a taxi with a perfect stranger, met with five other black African men and returned with everything done and every document executed perfectly, one of the ladies at the table audibly drew in her breath and exclaimed, “Oh, that is just like the wives of Decembrists.”
Thursday, May 26, 2011
The Wives of Decembrists (December Men)
In the winter of 1831 a group of aristocrats in Russia led a rebellion against the Tsar. The uprising failed and those involved were arrested and sent to work camps in Siberia. The wives of the rebels felt such compassion in their hearts and loyalty to their husbands that they sold what valuables they had and followed their husbands to Siberia.
This example of love and loyalty is remembered to this day such that when someone demonstrates those qualities, one might remark, “Oh, that is like the wives of Decembrists.” So it was on 5-25-11 when I attended a legal conference at the InterContinental Hotel in Kyiv, Ukraine. The small group at our table was getting acquainted during a break. I described my responsibilities and related our experience in Africa. I was asked what my wife did. I explained that she traveled everywhere with me and then related the experience in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania when I hurt my back and she went to the Annual General Meeting of the Church legal entity there and conducted the meeting for me. When I finished describing how she went alone in a taxi with a perfect stranger, met with five other black African men and returned with everything done and every document executed perfectly, one of the ladies at the table audibly drew in her breath and exclaimed, “Oh, that is just like the wives of Decembrists.”
This example of love and loyalty is remembered to this day such that when someone demonstrates those qualities, one might remark, “Oh, that is like the wives of Decembrists.” So it was on 5-25-11 when I attended a legal conference at the InterContinental Hotel in Kyiv, Ukraine. The small group at our table was getting acquainted during a break. I described my responsibilities and related our experience in Africa. I was asked what my wife did. I explained that she traveled everywhere with me and then related the experience in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania when I hurt my back and she went to the Annual General Meeting of the Church legal entity there and conducted the meeting for me. When I finished describing how she went alone in a taxi with a perfect stranger, met with five other black African men and returned with everything done and every document executed perfectly, one of the ladies at the table audibly drew in her breath and exclaimed, “Oh, that is just like the wives of Decembrists.”
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Back in Kyiv
No delayed flights, no lost luggage, here safe and sound, well almost sound, we are both so exhausted we are walking zombies trying to stay awake till bed time to try and beat jet lag.
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