While scouring the Louvre, I ran across the most amazing site. It was the statuary from the Temple of Artemis, the exhibit in the middle of a renovation. The ancient statues were covered in plastic drop clothes, the sunlight steaming in from the atrium skylights. I was mesmerized. And took many a photo. And have delighted in making post-edits. How…
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(Look, Mom and Dad!  It’s me at Notre Dame!) Over a quarter century ago, a man and his wife decided to send their oldest child to Europe. This couple was completely dedicated to education and experience and felt that by sending their oldest child to Europe, she would benefit from soaking up the culture and history. They were absolutely right….
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As 1 of 8 and I made our way to the grounds of the Louvre after our cautionary pickpocket tale, I saw him. My dear old friend. Up there in the top photo. Jules Hardouin Mansart. I heart Mansart. It’s not the lion-like mane of powdered wig hair or the flowing robes. Nope. I love this guy for his brain….
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1 of 8 yelled at me. Okay, maybe more like barked at me. “Mom, NO!” Let me back up. We were at Arc de Triomphe in a crush of tourists from all over the world. From the Arc, you can use an under-road pedestrian tunnel to reach the Champs Elysees, the famous shopping/dining/uber-cool avenue leading up to the Arc. We…
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let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings… Hebrews 10:22 One week ago, I stepped out of the warm Parisian sunshine and entered the cool duskiness of an almost millennium-old monument to faith. Cathedrale Notre Dame de Paris. People were entering the doors of the cathedral, some going through a…
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