Old Believer Village
June 24, 2009
These are some of the most wonderful photos. The wizened faces which bear the lines of much work and laughter are beyond beautiful. The women’s hands, knotty and gnarled with blunted finger tips, show years of hard labor but also have an elegance and tenderness to them. They have diapered little ones, soothed a hurt, made meals, sewed clothing, fed livestock, weeded gardens. They are rough like sand paper. Yet can pick up a fine needle.
My life does not know work like that. My face will not have this beautiful elegance when I am old. My hands will be soft and uncalloused.
This makes me sad.
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Mom | June 25, 2009 at 4:10 pm
Thanks Phillipa, It worked. Yes these photos are really beautiful. Its a whole different world that they live in. God has truly blesst them. Its surely not a way of life I could live unless I were born into it.
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Mom | June 25, 2009 at 3:44 pm
Is there another way you can present this so that I can bring it up on my computer. It doesn’t seem to work this way for me.
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Mrs. Mutton | June 25, 2009 at 8:35 am
This was wonderful! Where do you find these things?! Do you know where this village is?
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elizabeth | June 24, 2009 at 7:50 pm
Wow. Such Beauty. Thank God.
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Mimi | June 24, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Aren’t they beautiful? Wow.
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Suzanne | June 24, 2009 at 12:42 pm
People see in others what is in their own hearts.
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Elizabeth | June 24, 2009 at 5:57 am
Utterly amazing !
Thanks for posting this