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Memory Cloth — British Museum

My first trip to London – it was the rainiest June for 250 years.

I went to a gallery. Walking down the same street afterwards- my eyes were awakened to beauty.

I saw pink flowers floating in the air. They were growing fuchsia in a flowerbox. Underneath was a black grid to catch the dead flowers. They were still brightly colored. They looked like they were hovering in space. A few doors farther down were two small gilt statues of a man and his dog. It was a matched set on columns by the door - but the man had been broken at his knees in both of them - just to the top of the dogs head. I had noticed none of this before.

Then I went to the British Museum and saw wondrous things. They let you hold a small alabaster eye-liner jar from Egypt!

I saw 6 foot long protector beings from the South Pacific. Blue polka dot leather dresses from Native Americans. The Rosetta stone and the Parthenon figures. Amazing!

made 7/11/2007 recalling 7/7/2007

Leslee Nelson