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View fullsize The grave marker of Adele Brise in Champion near Door County.. composed in Walloon, related to French and still spoken in southern Belgium

What I’m reading,
Winter 2026:

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Egypt's Mona Lisa

January 17, 2026
Tags: ancient Egypt, museum, art, tourism, selfie

Narmer Palette

January 10, 2026
Tags: ancient Egypt, art, museum

Keeping in Mind the Martyrs

December 28, 2025
Tags: Egypt, saint, art, story, martyrdom, church, Coptic

There Will Be Art

August 09, 2025
Tags: Texas, museum, art, American West, oil, collection

The Art of Languor

August 05, 2025
Tags: painting, art, theology, museum, body

Order to the Desert

November 25, 2024
Tags: museum, ancient Egypt, power, art, desert

The Egyptian Museum

November 20, 2024
Tags: cairo, Egypt, ancient Egypt, museum, art, colonialism

A New Surrealism

August 30, 2024
Tags: cairo, skyscraper, Egypt, art, surrealism, city, design

Floating World Japan

April 25, 2024
Tags: japan, images, tokyo, kyoto, manga, art

The Distant View

April 16, 2024
Tags: japan, museum, art, view, mountains

Mirror in Hand

April 07, 2024
Tags: japan, shinto, shrine, mythology, art

One View of Mt Fuji

March 14, 2024
Tags: Japan, mountains, nature, art, hokusai, ocean

The Permanence of Mt Fuji

February 24, 2024
Tags: Japan, art, tokyo, mountains, identity, history, postcards

Learning Attention

February 11, 2024
Tags: Japan, model, building, attention, art

Beautiful but Falling Away

January 21, 2024
Tags: Japan, flower, view, art
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