i forgot how reckless my imagination and thoughts could be
I don’t know what to do now. I feel like Frodo at the end of Lord of the Rings coming back home to his peaceful town at the end of a long adventure. Both comforting and unsettling.
When everyone’s either super delighted or in the depths of misery. But Christmas is so close. We must persevere no matter what. The birth of our Savior draws near.
I thought I failed my Japanese exam. When I got the test back, I rejoiced cuz it was much better than I thought it would be. When reviewing my exam, I realized that she actually calculated my grade wrong and that it should have been lower…
It was a struggle- you have no idea-, but I told my professor about the grading error. Praise the Lord, she let me keep my grade. She appreciated my honesty.
What’s the use of a blessing from the Lord if you act selfishly upon it?
Windows of the Anne & Jerome Fisher Fine Arts Library, University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
The Fisher Fine Arts Library was built from 1888-1891 and is one of Frank Furness’s greatest surviving buildings. Of numerous notable features, the windows are quite exceptionally conceptualized. Furness oriented the library’s reading room to the north to ensure a steady and even light which came in through skylights and clerestory windows. On many of the windows one finds Shakespearean quotations, selected by Horace Howard Furness who was Frank’s older brother and the preeminent Shakespearean scholar of the time in addition to being a professor at UPenn. The stacks, when originally built, were located on the south side of the building and were constructed of iron and translucent glass so light filtered through. Unfortunately the stacks, as conceived by Furness, are no longer with us. However much of the original structure remains untouched.