Statues

I loved all of the greek and roman statues we got to see at the Met, this is one of the millions of pictures I took of them.  :)

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The New York Public Library

This is the famous lion at the NYPL, I was enthralled.

And of course, I had to get my picture with one, duh.  I am a book nerd.


The coolest thing about the Library actually was the exhibit they had on old maps of the area and the Voltaire exhibit which had the original manuscript of Candide.

The city at night was awesome, and I liked walking around in the midst of all of it.
Much more fun than watching a movie in black and white that is cheesy.

Today

     We spend so much time rushing through our lives.  I am a perfect example... I always seem to have five different things to do and never enough time to do it, but lately the biggest excuse for ignorance is... I don't have time to check this, I dont have time to read that, I dont have time to study this...I'm just going to base my opinion and say things even though I'm uninformed.


Today in the illustrious Macon Telegraph (which is quite possibly the sorriest excuse for a newspaper on the planet), a couple wrote in...
(this was published IN PRINT MIND YOU)

Comparisons

Seventeen thousand new IRS agents. Hello, police state (and how many are on the payroll already?) Krystal Nacht — anyone recall that travesty? Jewish merchants had their stores and contents smashed all over Germany on that infamous night. Americans had their government operation, tradition, law making rules smashed and civility ignored. Before our very eyes we saw vote buying, we saw representatives of the people abandon their principles (if they ever had any). We saw a so-called health bill passed by intimidation. Its control, not health, the Democrats were seeking and they got it.

We feel sorry and embarrassed for the American Jewish population who voted 90 percent for the Obama administration. The same goes for the Catholic population who voted 54 percent for Obama. Listen for the knock on your door. Had enough?

— Alicia and Dan Callahan

Centerville

I hate to judge, I really do... I mean to be honest I think its wrong to pass judgment on people most of the time, but ignorance is just that...ignorance.
The incident in which they were speaking was called Kristallnacht and it was a night in which Nazi pogroms against Jews went about and smashed all the shop windows of Jewish business owners and this act was a precursor to the devastation which followed throughout the late 30s and during WWII.  To even lower the memory of the people who died throughout the terrifying events of the Holocaust by using this bad comparison to make a half assed political statement sickens me....people died, moms, dads, kids..died.  
I am sorry, but history is soo vastly important because people like this above me...exist.
and it scares me.

Happy Easter

What better way to express Modern Art by something so vastly open to interpretation.  I don't know why but this exhibit really interested me.  Throughout the course of the day, if you went by.. different people would be staring at each other in silence at this table while the world watched.

Midnight Oil and a Photo from the MOMA

I will have to admit, Modern art has won me over after years of rejecting it.  Our trip to the MOMA on our last day there  was awesome...we walked through the rain to get there and it was so worth the trip.

Since I did skip one day... I have two today

I really loved this one of Adam...

I think he and I were meant for the city.

For a long time the air was cold.
Brisk and unrelentingly shrill
stark and harsh daily
Everything felt depressed and heavy.
I want to love the winter
with its gray skies and white blankets
and yet
the evocation of solace is sometimes too hard to bear.
Looking outside my window now
I see greens and blues and lilacs
even the sickening yellow dust that shrouds everything
is warming
inviting
hopeful
The sun has cast a light and run off the shadows
at least outside
through that window

Pic of the Day

This little gem was taken at the American Museum of Natural History because Adam loves rhinos and the museum has an amazing array of animal depictions.  so I had to take it, thus my new pic of the day.

A New Feature

Im going to daily post a pic from NY (if I remember)

This is from Starry Night...yea THE Starry Night

It was amazing to see this picture so close, I loved it.  I had to push my way through but eventually I got up this close and took the pictures of the texture... Van Gough, right in front of me.
Amazing.

I am thinking about some pretty good things right now as there are things in the world trying to bring me down, this made me smile.