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Monthly Archives: April 2017

The Everyday Sacred: Mother Mary

14 Friday Apr 2017

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In my Catholic childhood, iconography was a part of everyday life. At French Catholic grammar school, in the church and chapel, there were religious statues everywhere. Like the rosary, they served as prompts to prayer.

Though no longer a practicing Catholic, I can sometimes find comfort and reassurance in these iconic images. Back when the world was still a wide open plain, uncomplicated and full of possibility, those serene faces watched and waited.

In the neighborhood there were homes with a Virgin Mary statute standing inside a stone shell in tidy front yards. The inside of the shell was usually color washed a soaring sky blue. Blue is the color associated with the Blessed Mother, for reasons I’ve long forgotten.

In the Spring, flowers often bloomed in the grass around her. Perhaps her tears of sorrow helped them grow? She was the Lady of Sorrows, after all.

The petal-soft pastels of the time-worn Mary figures here is soothing. I like to think they’ve been well loved, and become more precious in the process. On Good Friday, Mary gently reminds us that there is something beyond the long night, the broken heart, the pierced hands.

 

White and Faded

Christine Walllace on etsy

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Casa Dulce Casa

Etsy/ Edith and Evelyn

Color Love: Beautiful Browns

13 Thursday Apr 2017

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Have you ever noticed how beautiful brown is? I’ve always had a soft spot for it. There is a warmth there, a richness and a comforting earthiness.

Brown trees. Brown bears. Brown chocolate. Brown stallions. Brown spices. Brown fur. Brown is what it is, out to fool nobody and at peace with itself.

When it puts on its sassy pants, brown gets a little (or a lot) honeyed up. It is russet, cocoa, copper, caramel, amber, oxblood, rust, truffle, tobacco, terracotta, chestnut, mahogany, sienna. Velvety shades of ancient earth and grounded magic.

In other words, brown can be brilliant.

Behold!

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gunnerandgrace

Larecetidelafelidad.com

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Laurie Shupp via Pinterest

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TuukkaKaski.com

LosTrabagaldes.net

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The Lady of Shalott

05 Wednesday Apr 2017

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On either side the river lie
Long fields of barley and of rye,
That clothe the wold and meet the sky;
And thro’ the field the road runs by
       To many-tower’d Camelot;
And up and down the people go,
Gazing where the lilies blow
Round an island there below,
       The island of Shalott.

 

The Lady of Shalott (excerpt)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
1842

 

flickr / horticultural art

Charis Tabot / Dark Beauty Magazine

Clare Chong Photography

Glamour

Ekaterina Belinskaya Photography

Clare Chong Photography

flickr / Fred Michele

Gregory Derkenne for Amica / via Noir Facade

Ekaterina Belinskaya Photography

Fred Michel / flickr

Donna Stevens Photography

Zhang Jingna Photography

vk.com

 

Inspirations: Romanticism; Pre-Raphaelites; Tulipomania (2001), Rembrandt van Rijin (1606-1669).

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