I love Chicago but I don't love the politics, the gun violence, the segregation and probably a few other things if I thought about it some more. But this past weekend I forgot about the negatives and rediscovered my love for Chicago. That's because it was Chicago Architecture Foundation's Open House Chicago. This free city-wide event has been around for three years now, and each year, I find something more to love about Chicago. Plus, the event is so well run and all the … [Read more...]
Slice of Solace: Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Parish
Though it was not on the Open House Chicago tour, Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary Parish was near the restaurant we went to in River North so we stopped in. There was a place to pray to St. Peregrine, of the Order of the Servants of Mary, who is the Patron Saint of Cancer Patients (something I had not known). I think these statues are lovely and sweet. … [Read more...]
Slice of Solace: Pico Iyer
"Occasionally, it's true, I'll meet someone--call him myself--who makes the same mistake again and again, heedless of what friends and sense tell him, unable even to listen to himself. Then he crashes his car, or suffers a heart attack, and suddenly calamity works on him like an alarm clock; by packing a punch that no gentler means can summon, suffering breaks him open and moves him to change his ways." by Pico Iyer from "The Value of Suffering," which appeared in The New … [Read more...]
Glimpse of Solace: Surface and Pattern
One of the charges against social media is that it often focuses on what is superficial. So I've taken that idea for Glimpse of Solace -- the pics are all surfaces and pattern. … [Read more...]
Much I don’t about Franzen
I give up. I spent the past few days trying to write a blog that was witty and timely. I wanted it to be smart like an essay by Roxane Gay. I hoped to get my thoughts together about the fuss over “Jonathan Franzen: What’s Wrong With the Modern World,” which appeared in The Guardian on Friday, September 13. The piece named names (Jennifer Weiner, Salman Rushdie, Jeff Bezos) and was as juicy as a reality TV show, with responses by Jennifer Weiner and Nathan … [Read more...]
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