Last Thursday, I left for a Celebration of Life/aka a funeral and in my general stress forgot to post this on Friday. Enjoy it now. Longfellow wrote six sonnets on Dante and Italy, and cathedrals where he thought about Dante. This one (number five) is remarkably Eucharistic. V I Lift mine eyes, and all the [...]
I went to an old-fashioned Power Show last week. I spent four days in the car and four days not in the car with seven other people. We stayed in an apartment above a diner on Main Street, in a town of about 5,000 people. The apartment was very long and narrow, with skylights to [...]
I have an old post that says, February! How did that happen? So I didn’t call this post, August! How did that happen? But it’s how I feel. The Shy Museum Goer has a new post about a Mexican artist, a woman who is not Frida Kahlo. Maria Izquierdo has a fascinating story of struggle, [...]
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 [...]
In 1926, on July 5th, President Calvin Coolidge gave a speech discussing the roots of the Declaration of Independence in the preaching and teaching within the American colonise, as well as the philosophical underpinnings. He talked about what American exceptionalism meant. You can find the whole discourse here. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-the-celebration-the-150th-anniversary-the-declaration-independence-philadelphia To me the money paragraph is [...]
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