The cost of art
Would you pay $3000 for a larger-than-life-size art installation unique to you and your environment and family?
Would you pay $3000 for an 11-foot tall chainsaw carving of a bagpiper?
Hm.
Mom has laid out a fleece. If the chainsaw artist from Vashion Island, who only takes commissions which interest him, can come down on Saturday for dad's 60th birthday, AND if he charges a bit less than 3k, that will be a sign that it is meant to be.
My mom is a big believer in fleeces. It's how she was reconciled to sil and I getting married in such a tearing hurry. The fleece in that instance was finding a wedding dress THAT DAY that cost under $500 and fit my freakish Barbie-like dimensions. $135. Booyah. But it's a funny superstitious/gambling/augury thing for such a straightlaced pastor, no matter how biblical the origin story. It never fails to tickle me, and I find myself hoping that the artiste of two-stroke engines is available.
36 And Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said,
37 Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; and if the dew be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth beside, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said.
38 And it was so: for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.
39 And Gideon said unto God, Let not thine anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once: let me prove, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew.
40 And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.
In other Mineral news, the post office was burgled. It is a headscratcher.
Would you pay $3000 for an 11-foot tall chainsaw carving of a bagpiper?
Hm.
Mom has laid out a fleece. If the chainsaw artist from Vashion Island, who only takes commissions which interest him, can come down on Saturday for dad's 60th birthday, AND if he charges a bit less than 3k, that will be a sign that it is meant to be.
My mom is a big believer in fleeces. It's how she was reconciled to sil and I getting married in such a tearing hurry. The fleece in that instance was finding a wedding dress THAT DAY that cost under $500 and fit my freakish Barbie-like dimensions. $135. Booyah. But it's a funny superstitious/gambling/augury thing for such a straightlaced pastor, no matter how biblical the origin story. It never fails to tickle me, and I find myself hoping that the artiste of two-stroke engines is available.
36 And Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said,
37 Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; and if the dew be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth beside, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said.
38 And it was so: for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.
39 And Gideon said unto God, Let not thine anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once: let me prove, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew.
40 And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.
In other Mineral news, the post office was burgled. It is a headscratcher.