Tuesday in NYC: the Met, my Library and Lunch

I got to the PATH train and almost forgot that

I need to take the one to the World Trade Centre 

as I was going to my library and the MET!

The door had just closed when the conductor must

have seen me and opened it again! 

I was not messing around, doubled masked as usual.

The trains were more full than ever,

though still not to the rush-hour full pre-pandemic.

I've just had a slew of people get the virus who

are in NJ so I am doing my best to 

not drop my gaurd (I am vaxxed as they say now days;

however I personally know break-through cases...)

So I've joined this fun bookclub on Instagram

and it is fun to take pictures of one of my favourite 

reads; it was published first in 1970 and it was rather

shocking to realize that this was over 50 years ago.

I have just 4 years,- 4 months before I hit that number.

It's rather startling. 

Anyway the book club is HERE and I posted

my first picture of this HERE,

which I just realized I have not included in the blog post,

so I will go back, look that picture up, before

I publish this, and post it right below:

A fun for-fun picture :) Tea + Books is it for me! 

Two nice pictures of my subscription library that

I took today!

I love this picture by Monet above at the MET.

It's called The Bodmer Oak, Fontainebleau Forest

This is an icon of the Ressurection of Christ,

Christ is in the centre lifting up Adam,

Eve, next to Adam, in the red, is already standing,

which, if you know this icon, means that Christ pulled

her up first, or she would not be standing.

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And once again, early Christianty shows that the 

misogyny that modern scholars often want to throw at it

IS NOT THERE.

Eve was pulled up first; some icons she is second of course, then Adam is standing and Christ is just going to pull Eve up; 

in some icons both are waiting to be pulled up.

Does it bother me that some icons show Adam being pulled up

first? not at all.

However, it's cool when Eve is first as it seems that some

would never believe that she was EVER first... 

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It was pretty wonderful that I was there in NYC.

The whole leg/back pain thing was not much of a problem

and I was just so happy to be doing something again,

after what was at least 3 weeks of derailment in plans,

though I hope not in what God planned.

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Larissa's funeral was a week ago tomorrow. 

Two weeks ago Thursday I saw her on the day she died

and read all those prayers.

It is still so meaningful to me that I felt like for once

I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing.

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Our local priest talked recently about the fact that

we sin every minute of the day and if God let us 

know the amont of our sin we would be crushed

but our priest also said if we could experience / see 

the full goodness of God we would also be crushed

and somehow I got the idea that God's goodness is so deep

that our sin, that's why it can be forgiven.

I had a wonderful moment looking at the icons at the MET

where I was aware of what my priest said about our sins

and even having one second of remembering what he said

and a hint of understanding of how true it is, about how

much we sin, that was a real gift, just even to have a flash 

of awareness of it.

I forget these things so quickly 

which is why I wanted to write it here.

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So, now it is getting late.

Tomorrow is another busy day; more PT.

And I am getting my hair cut.

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May the Lord have mercy on us

and save us!