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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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Holding the Lutheran Eye

February 08, 2026
Tags: finland, church, Lutheran, painting, architecture

Painted Memory of a Tree

September 12, 2025
Tags: Texas, tree, painting, house, memory

Where the West Begins

August 09, 2025
Tags: Texas, American West, identity, horses, painting

The Art of Languor

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

Looking at Art

July 29, 2025
Tags: Texas, painting, personal, Paris

Insider/Outsider Icons

September 09, 2024
Tags: Egypt, Coptic, painting, icon, identity

The Holy Family in Egypt

September 09, 2024
Tags: Egypt, Coptic, icon, painting, church, identity, bible

To the Banks of the Suez Canal

July 11, 2024
Tags: Egypt, war, military, painting, museum

The Local Nature Center

April 15, 2023
Tags: nature centers, wisconsin, fish, pond, painting, nature, insects

Other Warehouses

April 04, 2023
Tags: Japan, painting, city, infrastructure, boat, bridges, mountains, place

The Creation of Order at Manitowish

March 30, 2023
Tags: Northwoods, cafe, interior scene, painting, chairs, nature

For a Humble Boulder

February 18, 2023
Tags: Northwoods, forest, logging, railway, painting, museum

The Life Line

February 16, 2023
Tags: Northwoods, painting, evangelicalism, ocean

Houses of Parliament

October 27, 2022
Tags: dubai, London, painting, museum, government, Impressionism, view

George in the UAE

October 27, 2022
Tags: dubai, president, democracy, painting, museum
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