Summer Waning Summer Moon
Day 1: the one ring that binds her passes further through Vega’s digestive track. This evening the hunt for the prize in the Cracker Jack box begins.
Kate and I ate breakfast at IHOP before going to the grocery store.
While at the grocery store we refilled our pantries after the kids visit and found foods for Kate’s work lunch tomorrow. Kate takes special foods on Sundays that she works. Her mission is to expand the culinary imaginations of her co-workers. By the disappearing food in her basket when she returns home it is clear she’s achieving her goal.
My first two pre-Raphaelite tours are under my belt. I learned from companions: Joy, Antra, and Allison, who contributed to the tour. Joy convinced me of the utility of a good flashlight. Gotta find mine. The three of them also helped me see that the reason guards admonish me a lot about getting too close to the paintings is that I get too close to the paintings. All three added observations, commentary and good humor. Thanks, gals.
On my tours I tried to take folks on Hunt’s journey as a person and as an artist, focusing as much on a works biographical locale as its specific art historical significance. Since Hunt had a long spiritual journey that began with an early work, his most famous piece, The Light of the World, and since that journey was a dialogue with 19th century understandings of Christianity, my seminary training helped me. I was comfortable discussing the theological implications of his paintings in a way others might not be.
Both tours were well-received and I felt good about them.