It is a dangerous thing among the tribes, this deception. Though the man and his brother are thought to be messengers of god, she cannot help the feelings and the fervent wish, at least for him, to reveal the woman she is.Īdira’s father sees his daughter coming to an age where her womanhood becomes obvious. The woman in her stirs however, every time the tall blue-eyed stranger comes near. She observes and appreciates the freedom allowed her male persona, which the females around her will never know. Under the sterner hand of the caravan’s cook, Chiram, she learns the meaning of hard work, loss and loyalty. As member of her stern but loving father’s caravan, she is schooled in the art of trade negotiations, the languages of the people in the lands they traverse, and duty. Called Adir, a male’s name, Adira is raised as a boy. We follow the fortunes of this young woman.
She gives a face, a name, a life to another faceless, nameless woman of the bible. Here it is Lot’s wife – Adira. It is the time of Abraham, of Lot, of men believed to be angels and messengers of God, and it is the time of the infamous Sodom and Gomorrah.Īs she did in Noah’s Wife, Thorne gives us a brilliantly imagined alternate history. An amazing storyteller, Thorne takes us back in time to 1748 BCE. In Angels At The Gate, another nameless woman from the bible comes to life under
I’m applying the following to my day-to-day writing and painting – In your life you have to be the salesman for yourself. In business, the salesperson may call on you. “If your past investment isn’t working for you, find a better alternative for the future. Good advice, if you’re stuck in a job you hate, a relationship going nowhere, in a money pit – you get the gist. It’s gone… You only have to consider the future” Sunk Cost Theory says, The cost of the old machine is entirely irrelevant. “Sunk Cost The dilemma is a company with a new machine that cost $1M and the salesman wants to sell them a better machine for another $1M. This resonated with me, as I meet so many people that hang on to the past in relationships, jobs, hurts, etc., because they’ve invested so much money or years of their lives, that they can’t let go and invest in a better future. These are truly people tools that actually apply to real life.Įxample: I particularly liked People Tool 15 – Sunk Cost. Here’s how it went, here’s the result, here’s how it could go better using the appropriate people tool. Each begins with a vignette of personal experience broken down to its teachable moment components. Fox was very well written and I liked the format of the numbered Tools.
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