This week Elder Koberstein and I attempted to go to the art exhibit at the Church History Museum. We went one day to early but were able to look at a few of the exhibits not chained off until opening. This one is from Japan. It is titled "Touching the Hearts of Many Generations" by Kazuko Covington. It is a quilt made from a damaged antique kimono and obi. The dots represent ancestors and the eternal link that connects generations. The chrysanthemum a symbolic flower in Japan represents beauty. The insect nest among the flowers petals represents our mortal existence protected by our ancestors blessings.
Artist, Justin Wheatley's painting is titled "The man, the tree, the rod, and the words of strangers and friends." The artist says, "When the difficulties surrounding us become seemingly overwhelming, it is prayer and meditation that bring into focus the love our Lord has for each one of us." The artist is from Utah.
Jennifer Paget, from Utah painted the "At-one-ment." This painting depicts the fall and the atonement. The conjoining circles between the two represents the two becoming one creating a new shape in the middle called the visica piscis a symbol of Jesus Christ. The Star of David stands as a symbol between the two. "And this is my everlasting covenant, that when shall thy posterity embrace the truth, and look downward, and all the heavens shall shake with gladness, and the earth shall tremble with joy." Joseph Smith Translation, Genesis 9:22
We need to go back another day to see the rest of the exhibits. I am standing by the roped off area.
Nathan has had fun with Daniel's snowman. Earlier this week his neighbor across the street complained he had no snow left and Nathan had a pile and a duck. Nathan packed a big snowball across the street to the neighbors yard so he had some snow too. We had more snow and Nathan built a column again. I called it the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
This is the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Don't they look similar, both leaning. Snow is not a very permanent building material. It has already fallen over and much has melted because of the warm spring like weather.
A THOUGHT FOR YOU
Susan found some papers from mother. I was impressed with mother's poetry collection. This poem was memorized by a brother of my great grandmother Mercy Weston.
"Kindness to Animals"
A verse on a watering trough on Holloway Hill between Bath and Willow, England learned by Joseph Weston as a youth and repeated to Samuel Weston (brother) on 10th of November 1931 about three weeks before Joseph's death.
A man of kindness, to his beasts is kind
But brutal actions show a brutal mind,
Remember! He who made thee, made the brute,
Who gave thee speech & reason, formed him mute,
He can't complain, but God's all-seeing eye
Behold thy cruelty and hears his cry,
He was designed thy Servant, not thy Drudge,
Remember! His Creator is thy Judge.
A watering trough is a place for animals to drink. This watering trough is found in Florida. The hand pump is used to pump water for the animals.
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