The dog and I had people here today and needed to get out of the way for longer than we thought so went to the den and closed the door. I opened an old art book and out fell four of five pages from a long-lost study I did of Renaissance art.
Fr. Murphy brought out my love of art over the ages through college Art History and my family nurtured it with many vacations to Florence, my favorite city.
My study was about the Annunciation, the moment the Virgin Mary learned that she would be the mother of the Son of God. I know, it doesn’t sound like me. But this was before the internet and I visited all I could and researched others and have not seen this in many years.
What strikes me is that for a 16 year-old girl afraid of writing a 20 page thesis to graduate from high school, I just researched this and made notes on my own, for fun. Why do I blog? In high school or college it would take me hours to write 500 words. Now I can do it in under 20 minutes. It’s a challenge and it’s fun. And as an added benefit, the people I meet are interesting and amazing.
Thank you, dear reader, for making my day today. Also looking at me are a photo of my first cat Nathan who I had for 13 years, me at one year old in a pink snowsuit being inquisitive and fearless, and an ornament of my first dog with angel wings and a halo. Am I a glass half full kinda gal? You betcha. Stay with us. Cheers! Dee
Cooking with Dee 