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April 5, 2010
I had a funny story to tell, I’m sure of it. But if it had nothing to do with students and drawings and evaluating and critiquing and sifting through portfolios then it slipped my mind somehow. I’m almost through with it all, but still holding my breath until then.
I’m remembering to take breaks, though. The Monastery Pond is pretty now that the snow’s all gone. There’s a little niche out behind the parking lot where the nuns had a statue and a garden (yes, nuns in a monastery. No, I don’t get it either). I went out there at lunchtime and took some photos and sat and ate an apple and waited for the deer to come (they didn’t).
Posted by jodi on April 5, 2010 at 8.43pm
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Comments on "buoyant"
For a minute, there, I thought this was a painting…and then realised it was a photo. The swirling of the colours in the branches is amazing.
Posted by Lee Ann on April 5, 2010 at 9.48pm :: link
I thought I remembered that “monastery” originally referred to a home for any group of monks OR nuns who were cloistered (i.e., NOT teaching or nursing or going out among the people of the world.)
So you might, for example, speak of a monastery of cloistered Carmelite or Dominican nuns. See http://www.stjudemonastery.org/, Dominican nuns in Alabama, of all places.
A true story: Back in the late ’70s, I visited a monastery of Discalced Carmelite sisters in New Jersey. They were strictly cloistered, and I just got to talk to the sister at the turn, so I never saw here.
It was about the time that Skylab was supposed to fall (I know, ancient history). The sisters kept up with current events, and the sister at the turn told me that all the days when it was forecast for Skylab to fall all were during the novena (9-days prayer) to the Virgin Mary. So they were all praying for the BVM to bring Skylab down where it wouldn’t hurt anyone.
I thought about them all when it fell in the wilderness in Australia or wherever it was a few weeks later.
I’m not religious anymore, but I do still have some respect for those ladies.
Posted by Janice in GA on April 5, 2010 at 11.59pm :: link
Beautiful photo!
Posted by Roberta on April 14, 2010 at 8.41pm :: link