church splinken i left hyde park to take a picture of st. mary's cathedral. then i thought to myself, "hey. i want to be in there". and then i suspected that the thought didn't come from me, that it came from somewhere else. so i don't know what to make of that. not yet, anyway. 010522 ... fallen this is my church......would you lie on my altar? 010522 ... namae Too big, people can't see behind it. Maybe it really is better this way, but I, for one, would prefer to look and be damned. 010823 ... kerry i was standing in the aisle and someone was holding onto me. the walls are sweeping upwards into the sky and they're ivory and smooth columns and arching to form the roof and the carpet is red like my church this is the church i used to attend and the pastors are sitting in pews why are they sitting with everyone else? i know they think they're doing us a favor. i'm screaming over the din. this little person is still holding me back but i am struggling up like a cork trying to push out of the water and i am hollering to them that they are murderers and bigots and all these other things i can't quite remember and i meant every word of it, at the time. eww, churchy dreams. 021222 ... Sonya One day in December of last year my drawing class went to Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. We spent the whole day drawing portions of the interior. About halfway through the class the choir of the cathedral came in to rehearse their Christmas sequence. I was in awe...the realization surfaced that I had the privilege of seeing this beautiful landmark and at the same time listening to the youthful voices of these choir people as they sang Silent Night. My charcoal stick was quite dull by the end...and I didn't even finish the corridor I was shading, but I'll remember that day forever. I don't visit churches regularly, but I have to say they have a serene beauty to them at times that gives one a feeling of solace. 021222 ... mcdougall The most breathtaking churches I have ever seen have all been in Italy. I think it is a mix of the history and the age and the size. The large cold dark rooms with ceilings which are elaborately decorated and so very beautiful; I love architecture but most of all I love old Renaissance church architecture. 030121 ... mon uow kamloops 050320 ... mon uow my parents took us around to all the churches and let us pick which one i don't know if i had an opinion 050320 ... epitome of incomprehensibility I pressed its buttons. That is, while Aunt Sarah opened her shop for the studio tour, I pushed the arrow that moved one PowerPoint slide to another for the service. Witness Arden United Church being technologically poked by a technical Presbyterian, a replacement for an ardent alto. Songs. I didn't know them all. The message about the good Samaritan reminded me of Prof. J. from immer_immersion telling me the "actual interpretation" - not to help people if you can help it. That's not fair to him. He meant you can't always help a person if you already have a responsibility to other people. That's fair enough. But using that to justify what seemed like discrimination against one of his students...I'm still unhappy about this. My mind wanders. But there is coffee afterwards. 250713 ... raze the last time i was in one of these was for the largest funeral i ever attended. there were so many people there, it felt more like a concert than the celebration of a person's life, only without much in the way of music. i thought about how long it had been since i'd set foot in such a place. "i feel like the prodigal son returning," i said. a man sitting in front of me turned around, smiled, and said, "i always wanted to meet you." and we shook hands. 250713 what's it to you? who go blather from