Thursday, October 22, 2009

The Awakening

The city of Chesterfield has a sculpture exhibition until Oct. 31. The one above is in the Sachs Library (the boy on the left is my grandson Roman)
In front of the library is a couple---the pickpocket is, again, my grandson Roman.
The reason for this exhibition is the city's acquisition of "The Awakening" which is hard to miss.
It is a 70 ft. presentation of a giant awakening.




"The Awakening" is permanent, but the other 20 pieces are on loan. It was a little like a scavenger hunt trying to find them all. At one point we mistook a surveyor for one of the pieces, but managed to realize our mistake before embarassing ourselves by stopping to take a photo.

One of the statues was in a park nearby featuring an artist painting "The Awakening" across the street.

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Between Two Worlds

Most of my life, I've considered it fortunate that I was just ahead of the Baby-boom. Generally, the Baby-boomers were born between 1946 and 1964 after the fathers returned from World War II. It was a huge population explosion that has reverberated through American society.

This blog will be part history, part memories, part reflections of a retired teacher, but active "Senior". I have always felt like I straddled two generations forming a bridge. Sometimes I think like a baby-boomer, but sometimes I'm locked into my parents' Depression era thinking. I'm a dichotomy of two eras. But, I'm always ready to try something new---so here I am dipping my toes in the water of Blogworld.