I've been working on a short story for so long I feel as if it's been one word a day. Not quite right (or write?) since it's around 8,000 words and it hasn't been 8,000 days. So I went and looked. It has been nearly three months, which ought to be about sixty writing days. [...]
I had the happy experience recently of meeting a old friend named Helen. In her honor... https://www.vaticannews.va/en/saints/08/18/st---helena--empress.html Today’s saint is Helena, mother of Emperor Constantine ... Constantine the Great, Roman Emperor 307-337 [obverse]Parisian 15th Century National Gallery of Art, DC public domain ... and the rediscoverer of the True Cross around 327 A.D. Her pilgrimages [...]
When I was maybe five years old my family used to go to the National Gallery of Art on Sundays. ~Occasional Sundays.~ I probably don't really remember how often... When I look back I realize that the museum was very new at the time. The building was opened in 1941. I wonder how much traffic [...]
Eye candy for today. I'm finishing a story and don't have the bandwidth to think about other things. This was part of the old Saint Charles Seminary in Philadelphia. Gone now. sigh... My favorite view as a palate cleanser... I was scrolling through pictures and found this one and the one after it. The old [...]
July 14 is also Bastille Day. I was shocked to discover, when I visited, that the key to the Bastille is at Mount Vernon, having been presented to President George Washington by the Marquis de Lafayette. July 14 is the birthday of the artist who did the cover of this book. https://a.co/d/0hJIYXrY The ceiling above [...]
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