Modern Church adornment in Bucharest - a resurgent orthodoxy!
The 'Three Living and the Three Dead' in the 12th century Church of St St Peter, Hurstbourne Tarrant, near me - the mural whitewashed - and thus preserved - after the Reformation.
There almost wasn't a blog post today - but 'Internet life' is part of my reality, living as we do out in the sticks a bit, so I've decided that this WAS part of my life 'in the moment' - so I''ve decided to share it with you😊
I've had a nightmare of an evening; trying to make an online booking, my Internet link kept on dropping. Frustratingly it decided to drop in the middle of a secure payment, leaving me hanging in limbo – booked but unpaid (I think!) and no helpline available until tomorrow morning.
So, to distract myself from the anxiety always engendered by internet interactions involving
money and/or security related – I played a favourite ‘Time Travel’ mind game with myself –– as in ‘if you could travel anywhere in time….’ and tonight decided that one of the things I would most like to do would be to travel back to a period before the Reformation in Britain, before the Monasteries were dissolved, before Cromwell’s Puritan Iconoclasts of the English Civil war & Commonwealth desecrated and destroyed the interior ornamentations of the parish churches, to a time when the now austere interiors (there are a few exceptions) were as gloriously ornamented as those I saw last year in Romania. What a sight that would have been!
Journal prompt
if you had the opportunity to travel anywhere in time, where would you choose to go? Who would you choose to meet - and why? It doesn't have to be just one place or period - This is a game you can play over and over again.
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