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May 16, 2006
Oh my!
Sorry to have left my garden uncultivated! I've been busy beyond even my usual busyness for early May - 4 days at Kalamazoo isn't exactly a mistake, but it does make it difficult to finish strongly!
Oh, well, I'm back on track. This was the first weekday of summer and I did work! Yay!
Graduation was dry! Yay! Not beautiful, but not what was predicted.
I'm headed upstairs to the balcony grill a little steak and local asparagus (it's turned out to be too nice an evening to stay inside) and read William Diebold's Word and Image again. I'm going to try to use it in my Art 270 next spring (early medieval, more or less) and I really ought to reread it. Pricey for such a slim volume, but it is good. He deals clearly with lots of the issues that I wish most for students to learn. He strudctures the book around Gregory the Great's defense of images and its partial success in the West - and its failures. He ends with a really well-done exploration of a single object - the reliquary-statue of Ste. Foy of Conques. Here's the later church dedicated to her.
You know, the pretorn, prewashed salad may be one of the great innovations of recent years. I am eating much more salad because of it.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at May 16, 2006 6:17 PM
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Such a beautiful church. I could sit for hours and let my eyes run over around and through its clean lines, reassured by the solidity of walls between the arches.
And yes, I agree about the salads. A jug of wine, a prewashed packaged salad and my dog, relaxing in the wilderness were paradise enow.
...The airedale doesn't like the balcony - unless there are bees to chase! --MCT
Posted by: Sarah 
at May 17, 2006 3:27 PM