January 2009
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Women with their Garments
Women with their Garments, originally uploaded by *clairity*. Terracota kylix (drinking cup), ca. 470 BC, Attic Greek, Douris, Metropolitan Museum of Art for Eclecticity
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How to Remember Your Own Name
The just four-year-old still had on her plastic medical bracelet after a minor mishap and an x-ray a few days before. She got a scratch on her arm from it when changing for bed. I suggested it was time for it to go. She wailed and refused to give it up: ”But I won’t be able to remember my name!”
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Marble grave stele of a little girl
Greek, Island of Paros, ca. 450-440 BC
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All's Well
A week plus after our diakonia meeting, I see now that I have caught this serenity. This hug-yourself gladness. The ah-ha sureness of finding the one, only so much more because even if every human connection may be unsure, it is still the sign of finally sure. This solution is so simple as to be missed completely, often by those who know better, and can only be carried forward by the continuous...
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Ajax and Achilles Gaming
Attic Greek Terracotta Water Jar, ca. 490 BC, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Shopping Day
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Women Conversing, Attic Greek, ca. 460-450 BC, Painter of Bologna
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Woman at Laver
Douris, ca. 500 BC, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Cycladic Seated Harp Player
Cycladic, ca. 2800–2700 B.C., Metropolitan Art Museum. There are others like this, including one at the Getty Villa. My daughter (an archeology student) informed me that some experts are dubious about its origin. Picasso and Modigliano took inspiration from the Cycladic figures.
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Corpus of Christ
This Corpus was a particularly moving piece, sculpted around 1300 in northern Europe out of walrus ivory and is noted as one of the best of its time.
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Cloisters Chapel
Cloisters Museum, NYC
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Relief of a Bishop
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Relief of a Bishop, originally uploaded by *clairity*. The Cloisters, NYC
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Seated Figure
Seated Figure, originally uploaded by *clairity*.
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Death of the Virgin, Detail
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Death of the Virgin, Detail, originally uploaded by *clairity*. The Cloisters, New York
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Old church and street vendor
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Old church and street vendor, originally uploaded by miriam.mollerus. From Athens
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Procession into Jerusalem
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Procession into Jerusalem, originally uploaded by *clairity*. Portal, Workshop of Master Biduino, Italy, 1170-1180, The Cloisters Museum, NYC
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A Meeting of Friends
Night on the Hudson, originally uploaded by *clairity*.
Today is the last day of our annual CL meeting in New Jersey. This is a shot from last year from the same hotel on the Hudson. In fact, we are right across the way from where Flight 1549 landed and saw the cranes working on pulling the plane out of the water.
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Archive: Winter Shore at Sunrise
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Winter Shore at Sunrise, originally uploaded by *clairity*. Duluth, last February
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Interior Graffiti
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Interior Graffiti, originally uploaded by *clairity*. The security system only discourages *outside* taggers.
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Sunset Sparks
Winter Bokeh, originally uploaded by *clairity*.
I almost didn’t go outside as I can be a winter wimp even at a kinder 15F. But I pushed myself up and out with my camera and my favorite macro lens, knowing that often I don’t have the chance now to get out at the ideal time. I just walked around the yard to the dock in the knee-deep snow as the late sun was glinting through the...
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Skiing Lesson
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Skiing Lesson, originally uploaded by *clairity*.
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Everything Moves for the Glory of God
Ice Block, originally uploaded by *clairity*.
“Faith makes us hope to see that everything that moves, moves for the glory of...”
– Fr. Giussani
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Hope Every Morning
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Hope Every Morning, originally uploaded by *clairity*. Cloud Bay, Ontario
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Corner of Allendale
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Corner of Allendale, originally uploaded by *clairity*. In the neighborhood, last March
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I Need a Rose Today
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } I Need a Rose Today, originally uploaded by *clairity*.
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Lightbulbs
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Lightbulbs, originally uploaded by *clairity*.
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Peony
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Peony, originally uploaded by *clairity*.
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Biking in a Snowstorm
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } On My Way to Hell, originally uploaded by *clairity*. Minneapolis, December 2007
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Winter View
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Winter View, originally uploaded by *clairity*. Lakewalk, Duluth, February 2006
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Driving the Bus
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Driving the Bus, originally uploaded by *clairity*.
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Flurry
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Flurry, originally uploaded by *clairity*. We were supposed to get a big snowstorm last night, but instead we just got 4-5 inches. Here’s a picture from one of our bedroom windows in the blizzard of March 2007.
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Studying Italian
Last night before dinner, Lexi (almost 4) had cut up some white paper into rectangular chunks. She wrote characters on both sides of them, mostly her favorite letter “i” with a fat black circle over the vertical line. She recited the nonsense “words” while turning over each slip of paper (sample of four study cards above). She had to finish the set before I could send...
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Ice Bank
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Ice Bank, originally uploaded by *clairity*. Kakabeka Falls, Ontario, January 2006
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Madonna and Child, di Bartolo
