There’s a kind of loveliness that’s almost too overwhelming to look at directly, and walking through rooms and rooms of hearts in bold color, beating in canvases, beating in clusters surrounding them, at the Tate Modern today made me a little dizzy—if I’m allowed to be a bit sappy and sentimental for a while. The …
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#3: On the Tower of London and Accepting Your Fate
Today’s excursion took us to the Tower of London. Walking through the room where the crown jewels were kept felt like an exercise in reverence. Past corridors of coronation regalia, like embellished swords and a robe embroidered with Tudor roses, a projection of Queen Elizabeth’s coronation flickered on the wall of a dark room. Chairs …
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#1: The Tube, Spongecake, Purple, and Such
10 am, and we’re on a Coach headed through London. Our tour guide, Molly, and driver, Grant, seem just as enamored with the pulsing traffic and rain-washed buildings as I am. We pass St. Clement’s church, and Molly tells us to take stock of the pockmarks, like freckles, on its exterior. “Much of this place …
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Theatre in London U of A 