I spent the weekend at a Monastery of St. Gertrude. I went on a retreat there with a group of people from the interfaith house. It was so cool! I loved hanging out with the nuns. I paid special attention to the art in the monastery and boy was it impressive! There were statues, paintings, and even needle-work hangings everywhere. In one addition on the complex called the Spirit Center there were a lot of pieces made from recycled materials. The building was built on a slope and they had to cut down some trees in the process of the construction. So they took one of the trees that had to die to a local artist and he made it into a lovely sculpture. It appeared to be shaped somewhat like a dog bone, but curvier; and it was about 7 or 8 feet high. Anyways, I loved how they took something that was old and going to become sawdust and turned it into a welcoming and approachable sculpture. The wooden sculpture especially fit in this building because the building's theme was nature. The walls and ceiling were a soft green, the floor was stone tile. So I really got the feeling of nature and the once-a-tree wooden sculpture really helped. I wish I had taken a picture, but I did not bring my camera.
observation: i have 42 photographs (some are pictures I took, most are postcards) hanging on my wall. I face them when I sit at my desk. I have never counted them before. Now that I have, I don't like that I know how many there are.
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