Re: Picture on page 100, shown above: If you look closely, you can see the women holding photographs of the general RS presidency. This fact diminishes the picture for me, but I’m not sure why!

I enjoyed looking at the beginning page of each chapter — the page showing various artifacts — and then reading about the artifacts in the endnotes section. Sometimes, I found the choice of objects kind of weird, but I liked many of them. Does anyone know Carma de Jong Andersen? She furnished many items. I believe she is a clothing historian or something like that.

Re: your first kind of visual that “conveys content.” I looked in vain for adequate detail in the endnotes section for these visuals. I wish I knew where and when those pictures were taken, and people’s names if known. If they are anything but stock photos, I believe we should be told more information about them.

I gave away my first copy of “Daughters in My Kingdom”, I’ll get another when I get back to the regular schedule of Sunday meetings, and I’ll give it a fair reading, in spite of the overload of design distractions. However I very much doubt that for me it will rank with the scriptures or the best gems I’ve found at Keepa.

I don’t know that we are always doing our newest members a service when we simplify the lives of women who have lived the gospel or gloss over details that are difficult to explain (turn it to “fluff”). Their lives were difficult and sometimes a simple “and then she was healed” doesn’t convey the same power as telling the full story. As women in the church, we are not simpletons. We face difficult and complex decisions daily on how to live the gospel and I think we could all appreciate learning how other faithful women have faced similar difficult decisions. But maybe the issue of translation is bigger than I know?