ephemera

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 Feast of Fra Angelico.  

There's perhaps some ambiguity to this image.  The incident from the biography is that he's turning away from a lump of valuable rock and indicating the church.  But a naive observer might also think that the austere monastic was fleeing the Masses of gold in the churches behind.  A constant tension.  When passing a church, remember that there's a rather important book inside.  When passing a library, remember that there's quite likely a few books in it that would be more appropriately read in a sacred place.  I remember happening upon the sacred Tibetan shelves in the library in Indiana one afternoon.  Vigilate.