The Conjoining of May and December

Another unfortunate Senate of Canada revelation.  Senator Rod Zimmer, 69 years of age has had his personal life hit the front pages.  Not that he's done anything politically amiss. But one does have a sober second thought about the intelligence and perspicacity of a 69-year-old man, presumably intelligent enough to have incurred the admiration of those in power, to elevate him to the Senate of Canada.

Even in these socially enlightened times, however, a niggling little unease over the disparate age of a man and his wife might occur when one is apprised of the fact that this man married a young woman one-third his age.  The age, in other words, of his granddaughters, if he has any.  In fact,the young woman's own grandmother is a year younger than her husband, Senator Rod Zimmer.

Perhaps Senator Zimmer fancies that whatever was good enough for King David during biblical times is good enough for him.

1 Kings 1:1-4 ¹ When King David was very old, he could not keep warm even when they put covers over him. ² So his attendants said to him, “Let us look for a young virgin to serve the king and take care of him. She can lie beside him so that our lord the king may keep warm.”³ Then they searched throughout Israel for a beautiful young woman and found Abishag, a Shunammite, and brought her to the king. ⁴ 

Maygan Sensenberger, 23, appears to be Senator Zimmer's Abishag.  Her grandmother, 68-year-old Rita, informed the press that "she gets upset easy if anything's wrong with her husband.  He is quite a bit older than Maygan and she does worry a lot about him ... if she thought there was something wrong with Rod she would be very, very upset."

Maygan Sensenberger is in a spot of difficulty, having had to appear in court because of having made quite a fuss on a flight to Saskatchewan from Ottawa. It is alleged that the young woman threatened to kill her husband and "take down the aircraft".  Quite possibly, because her elderly husband was ill and she was dreadfully concerned about him, in her excited state she garbled the message and it came out quite alarmingly wrong.

It is likelier, giving the testimony of a fellow passenger who came to the aid of the Senator and his lovely young wife, that Maygan Sensenberger said something more like that she was about to ask the pilot to land the plane in fear of the experience being enough to kill her husband, as he was ill, his chest constricted and she feared his death.

"I never at any time felt threatened.  And all of the frustration she expressed while I was there was targeted around the medical condition and the health of her husband.  She saw us doing the primary work so she was continuing to speak out.  She was continuing to say, 'What's happening?  Is he OK?  Tell me he's going to be OK.  Why aren't you doing more?  Why aren't you doing something?"

This, from Scott Wright, formerly an ambulance attendant who volunteered assistance when the flight crew asked for anyone with medical experience to come forward to assist the senator and his wife.

Happy one-year-wedding anniversary, grandfather, granddaughter.