If I have learned anything from watching eleven seasons and counting ofSupernaturalit is not to expect my angels all to arrive in stained-glass-ready form. Some are little a little scruffier than others. Angels come into this world through the vessels that are open to them, so who knows?
Origin of “Weasel Words” The phrase was first coined by the writer Stewart Chaplin, whoused it in a short story– “The Stained-Glass Political Platform” – in 1900. In the story, a writer explains the phrase to a friend of his: Why, weasel words are words that suck all the life ...
Marianne, I understand that San Miguel has thousands of Canadian and American expatriate residents as well as an untold number of snowbirds in the winter months, many of whom simply use English, which is widely spoken in the city. I love it that you went to that part of the world for cr...
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One of the highlights of Krakow City Center is the iconic Main Market Square, one of the largest medieval squares in Europe. Here, you can marvel at the magnificent St. Mary's Basilica, with its striking twin towers and intricate stained glass windows. Take a stroll along the bustling stree...
William Butler Yeats’ Ornate Stained Glass Lantern Comes Home From The United States To Ireland Yeats used the lantern to light his way on a winding staircase in his castle’s tower. A century later, a multimedia artist “carried the fragile artefact from Provincetown, at the northern tip of...
To take only one example–this, however, from Gothic art, which naturally yields the most remarkable– what exquisite poetry in the name of ‘the rose window’ or better still, ‘the rose,’ given to the rich circular aperture of stained glass, with its leaf-like compartments, in the ...
With Simone Crockett’s revision of our stained glass window booklet and with the publication of George Bryant’s on Henry Holiday, I’ve been looking closer than ever at our stained glass windows. The central window over the main altar is one I usually refer to as Christ raising Lazarus ...
Yet we are, at the same time, human and finite: our senses, our intelligence, and our consciousness are probably as limited compared with the reality of existence as we are in size compared to the Universe’s girth. We see “through a glass, darkly.” We are incapable of knowing ...