| L'Chiam...brilliant news just In! I just got off the phone with my eldest Nephew, Gregg, -- he's engaged to be married to his partner of the past 2 years, Kate! Such a romantic! He and Kate were at the Art Instutue of Chicago's Museum, in front of the same Chagall stained glass, "The America Windows" that they had been two years ago when he first started dating Kate -- surrounded by the blue light, it just felt right, so Gregg took out the ring he had purchased months ago, and he proposed; Kate said yes!
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Literature | Music | Theater |
They spent a lot of time talking about things, goals, hopes, dreams, surrounded by this amazing work of blue depicting panes of:
Art
Music
Freedom
Dance
Theater
Literature Gregg spoke to me that his recall from two years ago,was that the windows were so very and completely blue, but this time he noticed and was immersed in the many colors that pervaded the blue glass. Here's a bit of a written piece by Jeff McMahon:
[amazingly, it seems prophetic and mirrors what Gregg told me about this magic place and this magic moment]
"Climbing marble stairs between Bodhisattvas,
backed by Buddha, one first sees it. The Institute calls it "luminous azure" but it should
forever be known as Chagall blue....Down, down, down beneath the O'Keefe -- Georgia's blue a lovely pale gradient against her pink, but down, really down now, aswim in Chagall, the blue swallows all. Pink dove, yellow sun, birds, people, trees, the rooftops of the City America, it surrounds and overlaps them like a lazuli sea. They are imbued with blue, imblued, under blue as if under a spell, under yet lifted up. So it is, not just with the seen but also with the seers, the passing pausing people in all their prides and prejudice are one color now, swallowed up in blue....A force for change. Because more serene than the Buddha, more merciful than Boddhisattva, more luminous than azure are the blued faces on the armies of children who march through this light hand-in-hand, seeing, wondering, changing in ways they know but may not know in a moment, may not know again for decades, may never know again, but changed nonetheless -- enriched, expanded, forever altered by exposure to Chagall blue." I wish for you so many wonderful things that await you together the words can't address -- health, happiness, laughter, abundance, home, family, heart, humor, hope, friendship and love...!
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