Go Pioneers!

This is mostly for Peddie, but did you know that the University of Kentucky's opening basketball game next Fall is against Transylvania?  That's right -- the UK Wildcats versus the Transylvania University Pioneers.  I was just talking about it with a friend who's a HUGE UK fan (always in the know and from whom I got the picture of the Cats with Jay-Z in the locker room on Sunday night after the North Carolina game). 

I just felt the need to share.  I am so excited and, I have some many questions:  will there be T-shirts, will the cheerleaders and dancing Pioneer girls be there?  Will the Transy players walk to Rupp Arena together or just meet there?  I can hardly wait and I know I'm jumping ahead here but imagine if UK is the national champion AND THEN TRANSYLVANIA BEATS THEM!!! 

Okay.  Back to work.  Have to go measure a house and get ready for a closing tomorrow.  I love closings.

Welcome Spring!

I know!  They're beautiful aren't they?!?!?

My yard is a profusion of golden yellow.  I've never before seen my daffodils so early, so plentiful or so delightful.  Or maybe, like the autumn leaves and my Christmas tree, my memory of the past year doesn't live up to the reality of the present.  That's probably a good thing.

We bought our house at the beginning of winter almost nine years ago.  At the time, we lived all of seven houses away but in the many walks we'd made past the house that is now ours, we'd never noticed how fantastic yard was.  We've done a lot since then (or not done a lot since then as the case may be) to neglect and destroy much of the glorious work of the previous owners but despite all our inattention, an absolutely amazing array of daffodils arrives every spring in the midst of the crab grass, dandelions, thistles and honeysuckle which seem to be the only thing I can grow with much success. 

Of all that is inevitable, thankfully Spring, too, is one of them!

Bracketology...

Warning:  Another Will post...



Please note:  we will not be disappointed in
the least if Team Mathews doesn't win but UK does!

 I confess that until last year I had never actually completed an NCAA tournament bracket.  Crazy, I know.  But, last year it became the best-ever Mom and Lad activity.  So yesterday afternoon while I prepared dinner and Will grumped about what I was cooking (leftovers) we worked on our bracket for my office pool.   We used a very scientific method:  a combination of rankings, gut intuition, general distate for ACC schools and the occasional quarter toss. 

We would like to add that we are Kentucky fans but decided that we didn't want to jinx the Cats like we did last year when we had them going all the way.

Also, if we win, I'm donating my half my funds to the Red Cross for aid to Japan. Will, however, wants to buy shoes which confirms for me that he really is my child.

Happy Pi Day!

Will and I were on the way to school this morning with a warm chocolate chip pie for his Algebra class nestled between us in honor of Pi Day.  I said, "Maybe we should have quiche for dinner.  It's a pie."

"No.  I really don't like quiche."

"Will," I said, "don't you wish you liked more foods.  Wouldn't life be so much easier if you did?".

"No, imagine how hard it would be for me at a restaurant if I liked everything on the menu?".

Hmmm...I really never thought of it that way.  Maybe if I disliked more things my life would be easier!  Living in the black and white. Perhaps that's the attraction of fundamentalism.  It removes the need to think. 

So on that note, Happy Pi Day! 

You will want to see this...

Just because the World Equestrian Games are over doesn't mean that Lexington isn't still a really cool place to be.  Right now my very own, Christ Church Cathedral is hosting a solo exhibit of Russian-born Ludmila Pawlowska's work entitled "Icons in Transformation".  The show at Christ Church opens the exhibit for all of the U.S.  It's appeared in Cathedrals throughout Europe and the amazing art-at-the Cathedral committee (of which I'm not a member) orchestrated our Cathedral as the setting for its American opening.  The show while on exhibit in an English Cathedral even drew a visit from Prince Charles and Camilla.

Sure, you're thinking how cool could an art exhibit at a church be?  This is cool.  This is perhaps one of the most incredible art exhibits I've ever seen.  Ludmila's works are inspired by traditional Russian icons but her pieces are anything but traditional.  They're huge and small, rich and textured, gigantic sculpture and small canvas.  You could look at most pieces for hours and never see all that's there!  I don't know when I've ever been so tempted to defy a "do not touch" sign.

The pieces are placed throughout the entire Cathedral.  There are works you pass going to the altar rail for communion, six gigantic pieces flank the entry to our great hall, works along the walls of the sanctuary and the crown of thorns...wow..let me just say that I'm going to stand inside it one day when no one else is around.  I had the opportunity to serve food on the opening night which coincided with Lexington's Gallery Hop and 800 people hopped through.  While we do serve free wine, I'm pretty sure they were drawn by more than that.    We've also had some wonderful forums and great dialogue about sacred art and the place of art in worship. 

I haven't done it yet, but I intend to take at least one day off of work during Lent to spend with the Icons.  Want to come spend a day too? 

Here's a link to the exhibit:   http://www.diolex.org/article279868.htm  and let me also recomment just googline Icons in Transformation if you want to see what I'm talking about!

Today...

is a very long time since my last blog post and it's been a very long few weeks. 

I can share that today's writing group prompt was "write about a grandmother".  I wrote about Jane Selby.  My thoughts and prayers go out to all of the Selby readers.  I wish I could be in Charleston this weekend with you all.  

I'm hoping to have a crabcake sometime today in her memory and take special note of its inferiority.