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Oh, what a beautiful morning.\u00a0 69 degrees.\u00a0 Sunny.\u00a0 Greening.\u00a0 Daffodils waving in the breeze.\u00a0 The smell of moist earth as soon as you walk out the door.\u00a0 As metaphor, This is the day that the Lord has made works well for me.<\/p>\n
Which reminds me.\u00a0 I have a pension with the Presbyterian church.\u00a0 I’ve not claimed it yet, won’t for at least a couple of years, maybe more, but still I want the info.\u00a0 Went on the website and it wouldn’t let me on.\u00a0 Sent two e-mails.\u00a0 No reply.\u00a0 Called this morning and the first one hung up just as a person came on the line.\u00a0 Gosh.\u00a0 Maybe they don’t like me since I quit?\u00a0 Turns out that’s partly true.\u00a0 According to the person on the phone inactive, terminated folks like me can’t access our information on the web because there are too many of us.\u00a0 An interesting factoid.\u00a0 Turns out they’ll answer any questions by phone.\u00a0 I hate the phone.<\/p>\n
Decided on objects for my spanish arts tour.\u00a0 I start in the arts of the americas where I have chosen a very nice statue of CHALCHIUHTLICUE, goddess of rivers and streams, wife of Tlaloc, the rain god and patroness of women in childbirth and the gold objects from Mesoamerica.\u00a0 Reading about her and Mexica (Aztec\/Nahuatl) gods and goddesses got me interested again in the whole pantheon and the elaborate system of sacrifices that made their faith tradition go.\u00a0 With these two objects we’ll discuss the cultural traditions the Spanish wiped out, then we’ll head over to Goya’s wonderful Dr. Arrieta, my favorite piece in the museum right now.\u00a0 From there in to Africa and the Goya inspired Sleep of Reason by Nigerian expat, Yinka Shonibare and after that up the stairs to another personal favorite, Morales’ Man of Sorrows.\u00a0 El Greco follows and after that onto surrealism with Dali and perhaps a stop at the most famous Spanish artist of all, Picasso.\u00a0 Should be fun.<\/p>\n
Did some more Sententiae Antiquae, ancient sentences.\u00a0 You know, one of those days.<\/p>\n
Oh, one other very cool thing.\u00a0 I figured out how to stream Netflix onto the TV threw Kate’s Wii.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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