etc.

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.
Voltaire

Secrets of the Dead

so i just discovered a new show...i visited my parents house and their T.V. gets channels, etc. unlike mine. so the show is Secrets of the Dead , i'm sure it been for a long time and im just catching it now. their nifty tag line is...Crime Scene Investigations meet History..how perfect is that? mmmmm. perfect. anyways just sharing, check it out.

postcards postcards postcards

keep'em coming folks......... the big mail art show is in August !!!!

Goslings get in to the act

Cygnet Grace

goose girls iron clothes and use spray paint

goose girl photo credits are to Elizabeth Streight

kind of goose girlesque

this older collage of mine , on looking at it now reminds me of our present day goose girl. what do you think?

the goose girl

Mrs. Masen-Dark and the Misses Gilmore travel abroad

Sarah plays the Greenbelt festival and has two very good roadies :)



Sarah Masen Dark

Bearing a guitar, a wistful voice and a nice turn of phrase, songstress Sarah Masen makes a welcome return to Greenbelt. She weaves words into songs that are delicate yet arresting, dreamlike yet earthed. Tony Cummings of Cross Rhythms praises her “spine-tingling voice and songwriting craft” and Greenbelt veteran Steve Stockman reckons she has a “God-given ability to express the light and the dark and the shades where we all walk in between”.

Sarah hails from Detroit but is now based in Nashville with husband David Dark, an author and fellow Greenbelt contributor. An independent artiste, Sarah has previously released work via Charlie Peacock’s re:think label as well as Word. She’s collaborated with Bela Fleck, Julie Lee and Sam Ashworth and has toured with Martyn Joseph.

A track from her first album made it onto the soundtrack of the Golden Globe-winning TV series Party of Five. Her most recent work is The Dreamlife of Angels. It is born, Sarah tells us, of a fascination with “our miraculously mundane lives”, the warp and weft of the human world. The title is a riff on Shakespeare - Prospero's "we are such stuff as dreams are made on" - and if this stuff really is so fascinating and vital, says Sarah, “shouldn’t somebody be bearing witness and writing it all down?”. Well, we can be thankful that Sarah is writing (and singing) about at least some of it.
Sarah Masen will be at the festival in 2007


http://www.sarahmasen.com/main

sewing ... woohoo!!!!!

sewing night returns!!!! starting Monday , and just when i have so much mending to do :)

art shows ive been in recently

West End Community Church and Barefoot Republic Camps, Masterpiece Ministries will host an Art Benefit on April 20, 2007.

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April 21 Janet Heilbronn Benefit Concert and Silent Auction, @ 854 Bradford in Nashville. A Special Out on the Deck Event: MammoJam. An art/music healing benefit for Janet Heilbronn. Doors open at 2:30pm and music begins at 3:00pm. Auction items will include work from the members of Off the Wall art group and many gift certificates from local businesses. www.myspace.com/puplehouseconcerts, www.saysitall.com/mammojam

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King’s Daughters Art from the Heart Tour a tour of downtown, 4 p.m. May 4th, beginning at LP Field, 5:30 p.m. art show at Dollar General Headquarters begins, $65, 385-4106 for tickets.“Art from the Heart” to benefit Day Home for children

Published: Thursday, 05/03/07 Nearly 20 local artists will be selling their original pieces of artwork during a fundraiser to benefit the Kings Daughters Day Home, which provides quality childcare for parents, regardless of their ability to pay.The art event and cocktail reception will be held at Dollar General’s corporate headquarters on Conference Drive in Goodlettsville Friday night, May 18, beginning at 6 p.m.The event includes a cocktail reception with heavy appetizers, leading up to the live and silent auction of artwork from many well-known artists and artisans in the area.

Canvas artists will be displaying their oils, pastels, acrylics and charcoal for sale and artisans will have original jewelry, pottery, glass and other distinctive artwork for home or office environments. One craftsman, Randall Martin, is well-known for his wood carvings, and one of his pieces is on display at the White House. The featured artist of the event is Shannon Curley.

Tickets to the event are $35. Please contact Carolyn Adams at (615) 865-0055.

The artwork will be open to the public and available for purchase Saturday, May 19, from 10 a.m. until 4p.m. No tickets are required for the Saturday event.

The Bar’d Crawl & Art Sale

The Bar’d Crawl & Art Sale:

Friday, May 18 5:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Come enjoy a night out on Demonbreun with food and drink specials to benefit the Nashville Shakespeare Festival.

We invite you to join us for our spring fundraiser.

It will begin with a wine and cheese event at Provence Bread & Café in the Roundabout Plaza from 5-7pm.

Artwork from several local artists will be available for purchase from 5-7pm.

At 7pm, we will travel by foot down Demonbreun on the Bar’d Crawl. Different drink and food specials will be offered during the 7-9pm time period for anyone with a $10.00 arm band.

We will end at 9pm at Rhythm Nashville with a drawing for three specially-themed dinner baskets from The Mad Platter, Chappy’s, and The Nashville Sounds for your summer picnic at the park!

We will be unveiling the 20th Anniversary Nashville Shakespeare Festival Poster from the award-winning Spirit of Nashville Collection. A Framed Signed Print will be Auctioned off at 7pm.

Artists confirmed to date:
Samantha Callahan
Beth Gilmore
Tiffany Dyer-Denton
Becca Durnin
John Hung Ha
Keith Harmon
Stacey Irvin
Daniel Lai
Franne Lee
Tracy Ratliff
Andee Rudloff
Nancy VanReece

Participating Bar'd Crawl restaurants and stores:
Caffeine - 10% off
Dan McGuiness - Extended Happy Hour
Longshots - Ask your server
Off Broadway Shoe Warehouse - 10% off
Otter’s Chicken Tenders - $2 drafts and 2-for-1 beers
Rhythm Nashville - Join us at 9pm for the prize drawing

Off 12th Spring Bazart

today i got a postcard

postcards are good and so are Madeleine cookies...


From In Remembrances of Things Past, here is Proust's description:

...when one day in winter, on my return home, my mother, seeing that I was cold, offered me some tea, a thing I did not ordinarily take. I declined at first, and then, for no particular reason, changed my mind. She sent for one of those squat, plump little cakes called petites madeleines, which look as though they had been molded in the fluted valve of a scallop shell. And soon, mechanically, dispirited after a dreay day with the prospect of a depressing morrow, I raised to my lips a spoonful of the tea in which I had soaked a morsel of the cake. No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shiver ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me. An exquisite pleasure had invaded my senses, something isolated, detached, with no suggestion of its origin. And at once the vicissitudes of life had become indifferent to me, its disasters innocuous, its brevity illusory - this new sensation having had the effect, which love has, of filling me with a precious essence; or rather this essence was not in me, it-was-me. I had ceased now to feel mediocre, contingent, mortal. When could it have come to me, this all-powerful joy? I sensed that it was connected with the taste of the tea and the cake, but that it infinitely transcended those savors...

Je vous souhaite bon appétit.

goose girl rising

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goose_Girl

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Duck

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_and_the_Black_Bride

Selkie

painting by John William Waterhouse 1901



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmogrification




http://www.chalicecentre.net/selkie.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_of_Roan_Inish

Saint Bartholomew with His Flayed Skin

According to the legend, Bartholomew was first flayed then beheaded because the Apostle refused to worship idols. Consequently, already beginning with the 14th century, many of the portrayals of the Saint show him as holding his own flayed skin. Matteo di Giovanni, however, was not content with the type of representation customary in Tuscany, holding his skin in hand but smartly dressed. He preferred to follow an old Umbrian iconographic tradition and to portray the already flayed Apostle as an athletic nude wearing his skin elegantly as a stole over his shoulder.

The painting to the right was earlier attributed to Antonio del Pollaiolo.

about 1480
Tempera on wood, 80,5 x 48 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

MATTEO di Giovanni
(b. ca. 1430, Borgo San Sepolcro, d. 1495, Siena)
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the painting to the left is a Detail of Michelangelo's "The Last Judgement" (Sistine Chapel), executed 1535-1541.

Saint Bartholomew holding the knife of his martyrdom and his flayed skin. The face of the skin is Michelangelo's.

more Bosch

Hieronymus Bosch

because the dead can't speak for themselves

cappuccino?

what do these things have in common? the Capuchin monks of course !!

The cappuccino coffee is supposedly named after the Capuchin friars (namely Blessed Marco D'Aviano, OFM Cap.) who are said to have invented the drink [1]. Other sources, such as Merriam-Webster, state that the cappuccino is so named based on the likeness of its color to that of the Capuchin habit. An alternative explanation is that a cappuccino resembles a Capuchin friar's characteristic manner of hairstyle, namely the tonsure, where the milky center represents the shaved top of the head, and the darker edge the ring of (brown) hair around it.

The crypt is located just under Santa Maria della Concezione, a church commissioned by Pope Urban XIII in 1626. The pope's brother, Cardinal Antonio Barberini, who was of the Capuchin order, in 1631 ordered the remains of thousands of Capuchin friars exhumed and transferred from the friary Via dei Lucchesi to the crypt. The bones were arranged along the walls, and the friars began to bury their own dead here, as well as the bodies of poor Romans, whose tomb was under the floor of the present Mass chapel. Here the Capuchins would come to pray and reflect each evening before retiring for the night.

The crypt, or ossuary, now contains the remains of 4,000 friars buried between 1500-1870, during which time the Roman Catholic Church permitted burial in and under churches. The underground crypt is divided into five chapels, lit only by dim natural light seeping in through cracks, and small fluorescent lamps. The crypt walls are decorated with the remains in fantastic fashion, making this crypt a true work of art. Some of the skeletons are intact and draped with Franciscan habits, but for the most part, individual bones are used to create elaborate ornamental designs.

Visitors to the crypt should keep in mind the historical moment of its origins, when Christians had a rich and creative cult for their dead and great spiritual masters meditated and preached with a skull in hand.

"What you are now, we once were; what we are now, you shall be."

bodyworlds exhibits

watched a dvd about this exhibit at school today . it was really interesting.

Beatrix Potter and Peter Rabbit

http://www.peterrabbit.com/beatrixpotter/

Ms Potter...go see it

cleaning it up

at the crawfish boil

Paul and Kim Play tunes of the past

A little attitude on the prairie...

you're sooooo colonial

Liz takes amazing photos

The Crawfish Boil cometh

gingerbread house

The Mint Julep

The Mint Julep is a mixed alcoholic drink, or cocktail, distinctive to the southern United States.

A mint julep is traditionally made of four ingredients: mint, bourbon, sugar and water. In the use of sugar and mint, it is similar to the mojito.

The drink was probably invented sometime in the 18th Century. U.S. Senator Henry Clay introduced the drink to Washington D.C. at the famous Willard Hotel during his residence in the city. The word 'julep' is derived from the Persian 'julab' meaning rose water.

Traditionally, mint juleps were often served in silver or pewter cups, and held only by the bottom and top edges of the cup. This allows frost to form on the outside of the cup, which some consider a sign of gentility. Others merely find it pleasant to look at. wikipedia...

Wilco Sky Blue Sky coming soooon

why is the sky blue

WHY IS THE SKY BLUE?

The blue color of the sky is due to Rayleigh scattering. As light moves through the atmosphere, most of the longer wavelengths pass straight through. Little of the red, orange and yellow light is affected by the air.

However, much of the shorter wavelength light is absorbed by the gas molecules. The absorbed blue light is then radiated in different directions. It gets scattered all around the sky. Whichever direction you look, some of this scattered blue light reaches you. Since you see the blue light from everywhere overhead, the sky looks blue.

Blue sky from scattered light

As you look closer to the horizon, the sky appears much paler in color. To reach you, the scattered blue light must pass through more air. Some of it gets scattered away again in other directions. Less blue light reaches your eyes. The color of the sky near the horizon appears paler or white.

meow

Eulogy of Adelicia Cheatham

Born March 15th 1817, died May 4th , 1887

Eulogy of Adelicia Cheatham
The remarks of Rev. Dr. Witherspoon, pastor of First Presbyterian Church at her funeral:
Each life in this world is the center of social and domestic interest peculiar to its own sphere. 'No man liveth unto himself; no man dieth unto himself This Scripture does not make a load for us to live under; to only declares a principle and propounds in the works of the sprits' own dictation, a law that is grounded in the very nature of things. It would yet be true had the inspired writer never written the passages quoted, that we have influence to build up or destroy the happiness of some about us, and that our lives will be either fruitful of happiness or harm to many whose lives touch ours in many points contact. Some lives have a wider field in which to work than others have. The circle through and around which it modified forces of influence operate may be ampler in one case than another, but that fact remains that clusters about the life are the interests I spoke of and the anything that touches the central life top disturb or destroy it affects the interests that depend on it. It is in accordance with this principle of the interdependence and correlation of lives that this godly company crowds into this holy place to express its grief at this hour. These doors have swung open once more to admit a coffin and those who sadly follow it.

The Tones of the Bell

That swings in the tower, and according to circumstances announces danger from fire, the flight of the hours, the union in marriage of congenial hearts, the worship of the great Father of us all, and the burial of the dead have been heard proclaiming a death. Death has done his work when a life that touched beautifully and with blessings so many of our lives, and this company assembled to do honor and show sympathy is itself a testimony to the value and strength of that life. This falling of a polished pillar that long has helped to hold up its part of the weight of the structure built on it and not be witness without regret. It is a double regret we fill feel at such a site. We are saddened at the thought that the shapely pillow is broken and the structure it supported suffers injury besides. Mrs. Cheatham's death, the news of which occasioned such genuine sorrow in our midst appears to my mind as a suggestion of the failing of that comely shall, a pillar so admirable in itself and having so much to sustain in the structure resting on it. Possessed of those admirable qualities of heart and mind that made her presence among acquaintances a friend always welcome. Social circles where she moved with queenly grace and civility have sustained a loss that it will be well nigh impossible to fill. There is no need for me in these few marks to say what result in her own home will follow her death. It was there that the brightest side of her life was shown. As the center of that home, she was its permanence, its ornaments and joy. Who can nominate her friends in this the city of her former residence and the home of her girlhood and dismiss over this land whenever she visited or sojourned for any time. When you know the extant of her friendships and the possibility of that feeling of affection which was entertained for her by all those hearts that are touched by the finger of grief today, you may then estimate what her departure means in the way of loss in this respect. The church of Jesus Christ had in her a faithful and conscientious member.

To this Church her devotion was firm and unfailing.

She revered the memory of its sainted pastors. She honored its institutions and was ready to sustain them by her prayer, her co-operation and means. She was the friend and faithful supporter of all who have labored in the pastorate of this church. At her hands before took leave of Nashville as a home, I received kindness that are fresh in memory now and will ever remain so. The day of God in which the secrets of all hearts are to be made known and when the gracious judge shall reward his servants for what they have done to help forward his work, will bring to light many of her deeds of kindness and of self-sacrifice wrought in his name and for his sake, that the public eye has never seen. Our beloved church mourns her loss today. The officers of the church thought it fitting that the bell which she place in the tower years ago at her expense should be made the means of ringing out to this city and to all of her friends the news of her decease. And down through all the coming years her name shall be associated in our mind with the vibrating echoes of that bell. The goodly pillar has fallen and the falling has involved lose to society, friends, family and church. On Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock the close of day, came the close of that life whose history is the history of accomplished womanhood, self-denying friendship and unswerving Christian devotion to the master In her death are illustrated the vanity of human hopes and the uncertainty of this mortal life. God took her away while plan for her new home life were projected. Exposure to bitter weather in the city of New York, whither she had gone to provide for the furnishing of her Washington home, brought on the illness of which she died How sweet to know that though she was never to occupy and enjoy that earthly home she had on high a home made ready for her and into which death came as an angel to introduce her Jesus has gone to prepare a place for his people and all who follow him as our friend and sister did and may rest in the confident expectation of inhabiting, while the years of eternity roll, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens Mrs. Cheatham had attained the age of three score years and ten. She was bom in the county in the year 1817 and has been closely identified with Nashville and her people though all those years. As you are doubtless aware she was thrice married. She has a wide circle of friends and acquaintances over the country, by whom she will not soon be forgotten. To her bereaved family I tender the consolations of God's Holy Word, and command for their love and service the Savior, whom as wife, mother and sister she faithfully followed. To
Jesus of Nazareth that we must turn in this moment of sorrow for comfort and hope. He has brought life and immortality to light in the Gospel- resurrective life for a perishing body and immortally for the sprit that is to occupy it as a tabernacle forevermore. Faith unites us to him and he becomes true life and immortality. Out friend's trust in God deep and abiding. To her such a confession of distrust was but a wall of despair. She believed in a glorious future for the Christian. She could have made answer to the Patriarch s question, 'If a man dies shall he live again?' In these words of the poet
Shall I be left forgotten in the dust
Which fate relenting lets the flowers revive?
Shall nature's voice, to man alone unjust,

Bid him, though doomed to perish, hope to live?
Is it for this fair virtue oft must strive
With disappointment, penury and pain?
No! heaven's immortal spring shall yet arrive.
And man's majestic beauty bloom again
Bright through the eternal year of triumphant reign.'
In this hope of a beautiful immortality for our friend and sister, we bear her remains lovingly and tenderly to the appointed place for their repose, cherishing the memory of her many virtues and commending her sorrowing one to the guardianship and grace of him who has said; ' I will never leave thee nor forsake thee.'
From the Nashville Daily American May 8, 1887

front hall

under the tree

Oxbow

Ox-Bow, school of art and artists’ residency, has served as a haven for visual artists since 1910. Founded on the shores of Lake Michigan as an escape from the city, Ox-Bow’s campus encompasses 115-acres of pristine natural forests, dunes, a lagoon, and historic buildings. It is both defined and protected by the landscape that inspires the artists who live and work here.

As much as Ox-Bow is a place, it is also an experience. Through its affiliation with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Ox-Bow offers one and two-week courses for credit and non-credit for beginning, intermediate, and advanced students in 6 main studio areas—Ceramics, Glass, Painting and Drawing, Papermaking, Print, and Metals. Ox-Bow’s courses are diverse, ranging in focus from the functional to the sculptural; from traditional to contemporary; and from representational to conceptual.

rabbits

Arthur Rackham's Alice and the white rabbit...


Year Of The Rabbit

1915, 1927, 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999

People born in the Year of the Rabbit are articulate, talented, and ambitious. They are virtuous, reserved, and have excellent taste. Rabbit people are admired, trusted, and are often financially lucky. They are fond of gossip but are tactful and generally kind. Rabbit people seldom lose their temper. They are clever at business and being conscientious, never back out of a contract. They would make good gamblers for they have the uncanny gift of choosing the right thing. However, they seldom gamble, as they are conservative and wise. They are most compatible with those born in the years of the Sheep, Pig, and Dog.
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Peter Rabbit is the main character in a series of children's books by Beatrix Potter. He first appeared in The Tale of Peter Rabbit in 1902. Although he and the other rabbits are drawn from life, they wear human clothes; Peter wears a bright blue coat and clogs. Peter Rabbit series has sold more than 151 million copies in 35 languages. The rights to the characters were owned by Frederick Warne & Company from 1943 to 2002.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice's_Adventures_in_Wonderland

lanterns, Jade Buddha and Tea

The Japanese tea ceremony (茶道, chadō or sadō, "the way of tea") is a traditional ritual influenced by Zen Buddhism in which powdered green tea, or matcha (抹茶), is ceremonially prepared by a skilled practitioner and served to a small group of guests in a tranquil setting. Colloquially it is often called ocha among Japanese.

The pronunciation sadō is preferred by some traditions, including the Omotesenke and the Mushanokōjisenke, while the pronunciation chadō is preferred by others, including the Urasenke tradition, though the two words are completely interchangeable.

Cha-no-yu (literally "hot water for tea") usually refers to either a single ceremony or ritual or equivalent with sadō/chadō, while cha-ji refers to a full tea ceremony with kaiseki (a light meal), usucha (thin tea) and koicha (thick tea), lasting approximately four hours. A chakai (literally "tea meeting") was originally equal to cha-ji, although today it means the simplest one, which does not include a kaiseki meal, in some cases, nor even koicha.

Since a tea practitioner must be familiar with the production and types of tea, with kimono, calligraphy, flower arranging, ceramics, incense and a wide range of other disciplines and traditional arts in addition to his or her school's tea practices, the study of the tea ceremony takes many years and often lasts a lifetime. Even to participate as a guest in a formal tea ceremony requires knowledge of the prescribed gestures and phrases expected of guests, the proper way to take tea and sweets, and general deportment in the tea room.

happy girls , sushi and flowers

party

my birthday is wednesday . it will be a goose girl party, hope to see you there :)