tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13524464.post335992994721607894..comments2024-01-29T18:03:55.225-07:00Comments on Sally Cruikshank: Mother's DayUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13524464.post-69397478355562914892010-05-09T19:34:33.225-06:002010-05-09T19:34:33.225-06:00Linda, you would love Etruscan art.
Booda Baby, t...Linda, you would love Etruscan art.<br /><br />Booda Baby, the Etruscan art is so refined, but playful, and I understand if you get the right ticket you can see erotic stuff too but I didn't write down which museum it was and never saw the opportunity. <br /><br />Pile Girl, the human brain is so inventive, and I know you've been through the highs and lows of it.<br /><br />In Italy, via all the art observed, I came to see that humans:<br />need to create<br />need to acquire<br />crave superiority<br />want eternal life<br /><br />nothing new there but just observing.Sallyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00874162149979602139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13524464.post-73238482193592177102010-05-09T14:17:48.136-06:002010-05-09T14:17:48.136-06:00Your mom's story is very BBC, and I hope it...Your mom's story is very BBC, and I hope it's exciting for her to feel a part of that.straynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13524464.post-19231155883400798782010-05-09T11:17:03.962-06:002010-05-09T11:17:03.962-06:00Nothing like a good riddle (Who were these people?...Nothing like a good riddle (Who were these people?) to make wonderful ancient art so interesting.<br />When I looked at the face of one stature I kept thinking "If she (or he?) could talk, what stories she'd tell!"<br />Very interesting how your Mom was sharp enough to compare her fantasy adventure with a "Cheap mystery novel." Her world may be off base, but she seems quite "all there" in the center of it.Namowal (Jennifer Bourne)https://www.blogger.com/profile/00384500508934864421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13524464.post-51382344316193230082010-05-08T21:31:42.727-06:002010-05-08T21:31:42.727-06:00Ahhh what heavenly wisteria! It must have smelled ...Ahhh what heavenly wisteria! It must have smelled divine! And I love that vase!Mars Tokyohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12209578587158424354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13524464.post-82035334909413972322010-05-08T19:26:39.631-06:002010-05-08T19:26:39.631-06:00Sally, thank you so much for sharing your adventur...Sally, thank you so much for sharing your adventures with us. What a beautiful courtyard!<br />I can't wait to hear more about your trip.<br /><br />Your mom's phone call reminds me of my own mom before her condition deteriorated to its present state.<br />When my dad had a stroke, I stayed with her while he was in the hospital. He called on the phone at 3 am, out of his mind with a story that he was at Beale Air Force Base at a prayer breakfast with our local TV weather man. He wanted me to come join them. My mother picked up the extension phone and announced that she had just had surgery. I felt like I was in the twilight zone.Pile Girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10604450255039913380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13524464.post-51796762498223874252010-05-08T11:43:10.336-06:002010-05-08T11:43:10.336-06:00What a beautiful scene! The Villa Borghese 'co...What a beautiful scene! The Villa Borghese 'compound' is - to me - (and apparently, after your circling hell adventures, to you, too) so much more wonderful than the Vatican City. (And miracle of miracles, you don't have to suffer a billion rooms of that religious art!) <br /><br />The Etruscan stuff is so ... refined. Did it seem to you that the arts and crafts were ... highly esteemed? It's truly fascinating, poking around early civilizations and trying to figure, from our v. modern perspectives, how they got to valuing what they valued. <br /><br />Your mother's in the middle of a delicious story - very BBC to me.booda babyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09424036488795599663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13524464.post-48906749977876376872010-05-08T11:12:18.373-06:002010-05-08T11:12:18.373-06:00That's a gorgeous photo in the courtyard, and ...That's a gorgeous photo in the courtyard, and the Etruscan art you posted is incredibly wonderful. Hey . . .You could decode their alphabet, I bet!<br /><br />"It's like some cheap mystery novel" (just too good.)<br /><br />Vatican Museum = 10th circle of hell is good too.Linda Davickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03660351950973083893noreply@blogger.com