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These Ceilings!

July 09, 2015

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So, have you ever seen such beautiful ceilings before?

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Art Excursions

I have loved art galleries since I was a girl. It all started when once a week after school a group of us in "daycare" until our parents picked us up would walk over with a teacher to the Cummer Art Gallery . I loved to walk through and see the same familiar paintings week after week. My favorite were always the portraits of ladies dressed up all fancy. And I have loved taking my children to art galleries. There is just something about instilling an appreciation for the arts in my children. Why? I cannot place my finger on it exactly, but besides being just a bit quirky, I guess it's wanting them to be able to 1) learn to BE STILL long enough to observe, 2) OBSERVE -- I want them to notice detail and appreciate that someone took the time to create, 3) discuss intelligently WHY they like or dislike something. We always have some sort of conversation using a kind of simplified version of the Feldman Approach to Art...

Living in a FairyTale Land

No Biggie, that's just St. Basil's... The fairy-tale colored onion-domes of St. Basil's Cathedral make me catch my breathe every time I see them: every. single. time. Here, we were on our way to English Club and our gps rerouted us because of traffic. It was cloudy and rainy anyway, and when you are used to getting everywhere underneath the ground, you don't really have your bearings of where exactly you are when you are above the ground. At least we don't yet. Anyways, here we were driving along when all of a sudden there it was. Right out of a fairy-tale rather than a history book. Pictures do it no justice. It is enormous. It is more colorful than just opened Crayolas. And there it is, just hanging out by the side of the road. And there we were driving by it like it's no big deal. Crazy.

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