Sister, sister, sister
In the cookies of life, sisters are the chocolate
chips.
— Author Unknown
She is your mirror, shining back at you with a
world of possibilities. She is your
witness, who sees you at your
worst and best, and loves you
anyway. She is your partner in
crime, your midnight companion, someone who knows when
you are smiling, even in the dark.
She is your teacher, your defense
TOM
CARPENTER attorney, your personal press
agent, even your shrink. Some
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days, she’s the reason you wish
you were an only child.
— Barbara Alpert
You keep your past by having sisters. As you
get older, they’re the only ones who don’t get
bored if you talk about your memories.
— Deborah Moggach
We acquire friends and we make enemies, but
our sisters come with the territory.
— Evelyn Loeb
One of the best things about being an adult
is the realization that you can share with your
sister and still have plenty for yourself.
— Betsy Cohen
Siblings are the people we practice on, the
people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring — quite often the
hard way.
— Pamela Dugdale
Our siblings. They resemble us just enough
to make all their differences confusing, and no
matter what we choose to make of this, we are
cast in relation to them our whole lives long.
— Susan Scarf Merrell
I don’t believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings,
gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood
and brotherhood is a condition people have to
work at.
— Maya Angelou
Sweet is the voice of a sister in a season of
sorrow.
— Benjamin Disraeli
You can kid the world. But not your sister.
— Charlotte Gray
If you don’t understand how a woman could
both love her sister dearly and want to wring her
neck at the same time, then you were probably
an only child.
— Linda Sunshine
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters
are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
— Margaret Mead
A sister is both your mirror — and your opposite.
— Elizabeth Fishel
There can be no situation in life in which the
conversation with my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.
— Mary Worley Montagu
Sisters never quite forgive each other for what
happened when they were 5.
— Pam Brown
Sisterly love, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.
— Ugo Betti
Sibling relationships — and 80 percent of
Americans have at least one — outlast marriages,
survive the death of parents, resurface after
quarrels that would sink any friendship. They
flourish in a thousand incarnations of closeness
and distance, warmth, loyalty and distrust.
— Erica E. Goode
Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one
the dancer.
— Louise Glück
The mildest, drowsiest sister has been known
to turn tiger if her sibling is in trouble.
— Clara Ortega
I would like more sisters, that the taking out of
one, might not leave such stillness.
— Emily Dickinson
Happy Birthday, Sis.
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DOCENT GUIDED HIGHLIGHT TOURS: 1 p.m. Visit each exhibit gallery
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WINTER HOLIDAY CELEBRATION: 9 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Lowell Observatory extends its hours and offers indoor programs and building tours
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HOLIDAY TOURS: The mansion is festively decorated in turn-of-thecentury style with wreaths, garlands, greenery and a towering fir tree
trimmed with old-fashioned ornaments. Guided tours include glimpses
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years); 6 and younger are free. Riordan Mansion State Historic Park.
779-4395.
FLAGSTAFF LATIN DANCE COLLECTIVE SALSA SUNDAY: 7-8 p.m.
dance lesson, followed by open dance till 10 p.m. All level dancers are
welcome. $5. Tranzend Studio, 417 W. Santa Fe Ave. 814-2650.
NEW YEAR’S EVE BALLROOM DANCE: 8:30 p.m.-midnight. Ring in the
New Year by dancing to ballroom, swing and Latin music. $5. Canyon
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WALK INTO WINTER: 9 a.m. About three total miles in and around
MINDFULNESS (INSIGHT) MEDITATION: 7 p.m. This weekly event the surrounding neighborhoods. Free. Thorpe Park Adult Center, 245 N.
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people that explore meditation practices and teachings from the Insight THE GREAT PINE CONE DROP: The six-foot-tall Pine Cone will be
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discussion takes place after the formal meeting. Free. The Tibetan Center, year, just as years before: the first drop is at 10 p.m., (for families and
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Arizona Daily Sun — Sunday, Dec. 29, 2013 — A14
Information provided by the Associated Press
and the National Weather Service
LOCAL WEATHER
Today
Hi: 39
Sunny, with a high near 39. Light north
wind becoming northeast 9 to 14 mph in
the morning. Winds could gust as high as 22
mph.
Monday
Hi: 45
Tuesday
Hi: 49 Lo: 22
Sunny, with a high near 49.
Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 22.
Wednesday
Hi: 48
The Egyptian teenager didn’t win the program
— she crashed out in the semifinals — but she
did succeed in throwing the spotlight on something bigger than herself.
“Everybody speaks about politics, but nobody
tackles the topics that relate to me the most,”
Mahmoud said.
She said she gets the ideas for her songs from
the surrounding community, and that sometimes girls send her their problems to write
about and give them a voice.
Lo: 22
Sunny, with a high near 48.
Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 22.
Thursday
Hi: 50
Lo: 23
Sunny, with a high near 50.
Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 23.
Flagstaff Airport Climate Summary
For Saturday, Dec. 28
TEMPERATURE
Maximum
Minimum
Degrees
46
18
SNOWFALL
Yesterday
Month to Date
Since Sept. 1
Normal
Inches
0.0
17.9
29.9
27.3
Record
61 (1980)
–12 (1966)
Normal
42
16
Last Year
32
–4
PRECIPITATION
Yesterday
Month to Date
Since Jan. 1
Normal
SUNRISE AND SUNSET
Today
Sunrise: 7:34 a.m.
Inches
0.00
1.35
24.79
21.65
Sunset: 5:24 p.m.
Today’s State Weather
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Page
42/25
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Jacob Lake
38/20
■
Canyon de Chelly
39/17
■
Grand Canyon
40/14
■
Seligman
49/19
■
Window Rock
42/13
■
Flagstaff
Cottonwood
39/16
56/27
■
Kingman
55/27
■
■
Prescott
51/23
Lake Havasu City
67/42
■
Winslow
45/18
■
■
Sedona
54/28
■
■
Payson
51/26
Show Low
42/18
★
PHOENIX
69/44
■
Yuma
71/47
Monday, Dec. 30
CAIRO (AP) — As soon as the beat started, the
young woman bobbed her head to the rhythm,
raised her hands to get the crowd clapping and
then unleashed a flood of rap lyrics that tackled
some of the biggest social challenges women
face in the Arab world.
With the Middle East’s hit show “Arabs Got
Talent” as her stage, 18-year-old Myam Mahmoud rapped about sexual harassment, secondclass treatment of women and expectations of
how a young religious woman should behave.
Lo: 21
Sunny, with a high near 45. Calm wind
becoming east 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon.
Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 21.
Tuesday, Dec. 31
Egyptian rapper speaks for women’s rights
Lo: 16
■
Tucson
66/39
Today’s National Weather
National forecast
Forecast highs for Sunday, Dec. 29
Sunny
Pt. Cloudy
Cloudy
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