Flor

Flor
Flower 

Florida 

 

John 1:17
“For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.”

 

 

 

 

 

 "Por el pan y la sal,
Por el misterio de la rosa,
Que prodiga color y que no lo ve,"~~~Jorge Luis Borges: Otro poema de los dones.

 

 

 

Chess: "Flor" "Flower" "Florida"

War of the Roses

Rose

Flower

War of the Roses

 

Gal.6:9

"And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not."

 

 "Where be those roses gone which sweetened so our eyes"~~~Philip Sidney

 

"Lo recuerdo en el corredor del hotel, con un libro de matemáticas en la mano, mirando a veces los colores irrecuperables del cielo."~~~Jorge Luis Borges: Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

"por el misterio de la rosa
que prodiga color y que no lo ve,"~~~Borges

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chess: "Rose" "Flower"

 

Texas

Texas
Florence
Florida 
Fleur
Flor
Flower
Ambo
Ambulance
Roof
Hard hat.

Psalm 91:10
"There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling"

TEXAS: Florence

The Madonna of Mercy - Detail
At the bottom, the oldest representation of Florence, fresco, 14th century

 The Loggia of Bigallo, built in the mid 14th century for the Compagnia della Misericordia together with the neighbouring oratory, became in 1425 the seat of the Compagnia del Bigallo, named after the hospital it directed at Santa Maria a Fonteviva that was known as Hospital of Bigallo.

Ambo

  A little-known fact about this period, reported by Peter Drucker in Managing in the Next Society, is that Kafka invented the first civilian hard hat. He received a medal for this invention in 1912 because it reduced Bohemian steel mill deaths to fewer than 25 per thousand employees.

“I ambled along, looking in store windows” ~~~John Howard Griffin

“I am not ambitious of ridicule” ~~~Burke

Ambulance

Flor

Chess: "Texas" "Florence" "Florida" "Ambo" "Ambulance" "Fleur" "Flor" "Flower" "Roof" "Hard hat"


 Ps91:10 


10non accedet ad te malum et lepra non adpropinquabit tabernaculo tuo

10Aucun malheur ne t'arrivera, Aucun fléau n'approchera de ta tente.  

10 no te sobrevendrá mal ni plaga tocará tu morada,  

10non ti accadrà alcun male, né piaga alcuna si accosterà alla tua tenda. 

 ¹⁰ Darum wird dir nichts Böses zustoßen, kein Unglück wird dein Haus erreichen.

Ps.91

Chase Manhattan Bank

Chase Manhattan Bank
Flor
Flower
Florence
Río de la Plata
River Plate
Silver
Argentina
Cadiz: la tacita de Plata
U

Prov.1:32
"For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them"

“We have come a long way from the powerful conviction that induced knights and ladies to draw carts of Stone up the hill for the building of Chartres Cathedral. And yet the notion of ideal love, and the irresistible power of gentleness and beauty, which is emblematically conveyed by the homage of these two fierce beasts, can be traced back for three centuries; we may even begin to look for it in the north portal of Chartres.”~~~ Kenneth Clark: Civilisation. Ch3 Romance and Reality

Chase Manhattan Bank

Ivory statuette of Virgin and Child in the Gothic style

 This is an ivory panel relief representing two Maries at the Sepulchre, made in ca. 1320 in France, Paris. Shortly after its discovery this ivory relief was associated with four other reliefs from the Passion, all of similar dimensions, but being the work of more than one sculptor and having originated from a number of different ensembles. The present relief seems to have been cut down at the bottom

“People have suggested that the graceful curve of a Gothic Virgin was due to the curve of the elephant’s tusk out of which it was carved. Not impossible: but this flowing rhythm spread far beyond material necessities. In the ivory plaque of the Maries at the Sepulchre the figures have a musical relationship to one another.” ~~~ Kenneth Clark: Civilisation. Ch3 Romance and Reality

 Cádiz, la tacita de plata

Chess:  "Chase Manhattan Bank" "Flor" "Flower" "Florence" "Río de la Plata" "River Plate " "Silver" "Argentina" "Cadiz: Copita de Plata" "U"