Flowers

[harvestar]

With the lack of rain this year, I despaired of seeing any flowers this spring. However, I think a few have responded to the late coming sprinkles of a few weeks ago. There's now some pink and white Fairy Dusters, some yellow globe mallows, and some pretty purple flowers blooming along the road. Some of them are a little hard to see, but it

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[istari_lady]

I love forsythias...

*beams that shes not the only weirdo listening to Hildegard stuff :P* She was a talented woman!

[harvestar]

Yes, she is! I've known about her for a few years now - I bought a book of her prayers for my mom. But I was introduced to her music when our local symphony played a piece of modern music by Christopher Theofanidis called "Rainbow Body". As our conductor introduced the piece, "This comes from a new movement in modern classical music - one concerned with melody, harmony, and good things like that." It was one of the most beautiful pieces of music I've heard! Right up there with the upswell of emotions from pieces by Mozart, Beethoven, etc. It's based on a melody of Hildegard's and some Buddhist thought.

[istari_lady]

... by the way...Bela Fleck, Tara McLean, you got some good tastes Lady! :)

[harvestar]

Thanks! My love is quite fond of Tara McLean, so I was introduced to her through him.

[jamiam]

please do post the penstemons! I planted some in February, and they're blooming, but I don't know if they're Parry's or Palmer's... I actually think I have both, but I don't know which is which.

They were playing The Passion on campus this evening, by the way. Bartleby and I watched the very end of it, but we booked when some guy started preaching after it was over.

[harvestar]

The Newman Center is playing it Friday evening starting at 9 (after the Good Friday service). Since I've seen it already, I'm not going to that one. I thought the Last Temptation of Christ was interesting, not as "controversial" as I thought it might be. Our pastor really likes it and it is quite realistic of the time and has a bloody Jesus (unlike, say, the Jesus of Nazareth movie), but he thinks The Passion is too over the top - almost to comic level. I didn't feel that, but it *is* gruesome, though it has beautiful scenes with Mary.

[jamiam]

Well, like I said, we only caught the very end. But the Roman guard who stab Jesus in the side with the spear? Ended up stabbing him like a dozen times instead of once, then collapsing to his knees in horror and awe when he was sprayed with Jesus' blood. That was a bit outside the canon, I thought.

But Bartleby looked very moved afterwards. The crown of thorns made such an impression on him, he went and stepped on a chunk of cholla over by Old Main. I can only assume that he wanted to experience a tiny piece of our Savior's suffering...