Kumran

"This my excavation and today is Kumran.

Everything that happens from here is now on." 

- re:stacks, Bon Iver

"When they found them it changed the whole course of Christianity, whether people wanted to know it or not. A lot of people chose to ignore it, a lot of people decided to run with it, and for many people it destroyed their faith..." 

- Justin Vernon

There are a few cases where the artist is nearly as interesting as the art. Justin Vernon would have to be one of my favorite examples of this. Broke and broken hearted, Vernon retreated to a cabin deep in the woods and recorded over a winter one of my all time favorite albums.

   Kumran is the name of the site that the Dead Sea scrolls were discovered. Among the scrolls were copies of the book of Isaiah, dating hundreds of years older than the oldest copy of the bible. The texts were compared and very little variations were discovered. Opponents to the authenticity of our modern day translations were silenced.

   

   We are at times in our lives faced with trials that test, reveal and validate our true character.

   At your Kumran you have handled yourself with grace, confirming the strength and beauty that continues to leave me awestruck and at the same feeling clumsy and childish.

   Run with it. Leave the opponents in silence.