Merle,
I suggest, Go when there's nobody there. That is the best time.
That's what I did, at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, in New York City.
Or sometimes, the Organist practiced. Fine.
Frankly, New York's Saint John's is in fact the largest cathedral in the World,
in this Solar Syatem. Saint Peter's in Rome claims to be "large", but Saint
Peter's is NOT a Cathedral: it is a Basilica! Hahahahaha! I laugh, although a
lapsed Catholic. I'm more true to New York City than to Rome, for true.
M., You are a painter; those stained-glass windows ought to be the inverse of
anathema to you. What's the word for that? And, do you see them this way?
Surely, you do not miss them.
I loved the Rose-Window at Saint John's. Grew up with it. Even while I danced
Sufi dances there, on Wednesdays. Especially. Sheikh would put his hands to
his ears and shout the Call-to-Prayer, inside the Episcopal cathedral, to the
stone rafters 120 feet above. I'd tear-up, inevitably. The terrorists do not
know this kind of sweetness in their own religion, alas. It was sweet-honey to
us, and is salty-blood to them, I fear. Not that they distinguish. But, we
were Sufis! The only mystic sect! We were not obeying nasty sheikhs with
nasty pulpits and fallacious ideas and incendiary incentives.
Bless those windows where you are. They ought to look different every time. I
hope so! I miss my old City: Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall. And some
indeterminate seasons, like Today.
Best of Love,
--Joe
> Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...> wrote:
>
> i sift through the "crap"
> i sit
> the stain glass windows provide an aura of peace
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