Every-Day Beauty
I have been a bit unsure about showing these. They might look a bit too shabby.
The Coltea Church was built in 1641 as part of a complex of buildings: a hospital, a drugstore, a watch and firefighters tower, living quarters for the doctors, a school and three smaller chapels. It was a rich monastery surrounded by a wall for a while, but now it's just a small church that's under restauration. It's closed for works, just as it was during the last years before the revolution (that might have saved it from demoltion).
These are just photos from its entrance: the door and an old stove that had been taken out. The stove has to be ancient because it bares the old name of out town: Bucuresci, unused for about a century.
Just some every-day things, common things people use without paying much attention to them. Still, they have such a grace!
I'm sure there are some around you, too. Let's try to find more!
The first photo (and many more of the place if you want) is from here.
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Beauty is not only in museums. We are surrounded by tiny examples that enclose art in themselves. But we don't often notice them. Our everyday life is too busy1
And would it not be worth the time to take a better look around?
A colleague of mine who teaches Romanian language told me that the change of the town's name was done in 1904, when the spelling rules were changed by the Academy.
So, the stove is more than 100 years old.
Will our everyday things survive such a long time?
We should start making archeology for the future.
We are doing better than making things for the future: we are helping create people for it. The future is theirs, they will need nobody to dig them out. Not in a hundred years, but 30-40-50 years from now, when I'm long gone, one of them will still remember not my name, but at least one thing I taught him or her. I'm sure. Just as I do. That's one of the main reasons of my life. Call me naive!
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