Last week I traveled for a while and read two and a half new books. I also enjoyed leaving my computer alone for five days. ; ) The first book was The Great Passion by James Runcie. It sounds like some regency love story but, no. It is a historical novel about the writing of [...]
When I was about seven years old I went to the National Gallery of Art with my father. I don't remember why we were alone on this visit but I do remember falling in love with this painting. Flowers in a Rococo Vase by Paul Cezanne. My father bought me a reproduction. (Sadly, vanished somewhere [...]
A friend sent me this photo of a painting on the wall of a church he had visited. The picture came in as a fuzzy image at first which sometimes happens when iPhones send pictures to my Not an iPhone. Because I knew the church's name was Saint Helen I carelessly though that it was [...]
A Virgin of Paris statue replica is carried during a Marian candlelit procession through the streets of Paris Nov. 15, 2024, as the original, for security reasons, was transported on a truck back to Notre Dame Cathedral. The statue was kept at the Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois Church near the Louvre for five years since Notre Dame was [...]
I loved reading The Boys in the Boat over the summer. Impossible doings, like helping build a dam by dangling over and down a cliff face, and using a hammer while you hanging there, without sending yourself into an out-and-back ride ending with a smash, are legendary, and a legend is something that you share, [...]
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