Amazing video with beautiful atmospheric music pieces as well! I think Rosemary and I would have gotten along quite well....She is a master of subtle smart-assery 😜 A stay at Barnsley House is on my list if Britain and the USA get their bearings right again 💔
This woman has a strange presence in my life, I have been friends with her grandson since our late 20's in the 1990s...he never mentioned her until he turned up at my Fulham flat with the weekend Times to show me her obituary in 2001...I then learn how connected he was - having also had a father who was Chaplain to the Queen for a time, a famous Aunt who was also a British newsreader...not to mention his mother was then dating an ex US astronaut! All quite true. This women was so well respected in life and was known as the 'English Country Garden Doyenne'...apparently known more in the States than in England itself. At her funeral another highly respectful, yet surreal, event occurred when prior to the service starting the doors opened and in came a security detail before Charles (the now King) entered and sat just behind the family on the pews...of course she designed the Ornamental Vegetable Garden at Highgrove! I lived on the stories of my friend's family whenever it occurred to me! Still do from time to time.
Love you're little scattish castle, how much ? Would look great here in great plains Texas...sandwiched in-between taco bell and walmart. Colors a bit bland, maybe brighten the place up with some neon and 🇺🇸 flags...😮
Thank you to whoever posted this RU-vid on WONDERFUL SR WENDY in Rome ! I love EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT ART LOVING SISTER ! Now Sr Wendy is with Our Lord and the Angels and Saints ! Blessings from Michigan USA
Michelangelo, the great artist lived and was trained by a stone cutter from childhood. His own mother was very sickly and he had to live with the stone cutter and his wife many times and over many years. He idealised his Ma. He made her bigger and likely more like the surrogate mother, because his own Ma died young, so he made her up. This idea of Mary holding this grown man, for me, has more to do with Michelangelo’s ‘lack’ of mothering, or ‘mothering by another’ unconnected woman. Since childhood he longed for his real earthly mother, and he could feel, and displayed the disconnection, and he showed it to us in this beautiful sculpture. Mary is not to be prayed to in this regard, but many who saw this sculpture would be taught to pray to Mary. Many would try to claim Mary is on a pedestal, like here, and she is larger than Jesus to show the inclination for people to pray to her. But it was Michelangelo’s way to explain his broken disconnected heart. It is after all, his life experience! I feel it is more about how unconnected Michelangelo felt toward his own mother, and even toward the woman who cared for him, and how he saw the mother (surrogate) as younger, because it was his experience that his Mom was likely older. Jesus was different than Michelangelo. Although longing to be with Mary in life, he instead became more connected to the first component of the trinity, his Father. Just like the stonecutter gave Michaengelo a trade so did God give Jesus a way to show us God’s love for us and be the son of God, who God gave us to die for us, and rise again, and thereby ‘to keep’ his earthly family. Michelangelo’s role of an amazing artist, but only human releases us from the capture of Mary as a deity. In other words we pray to God in the name of Jesus. Jesus gave Mary over to his friend John to look after her earthly needs. He did not abandon her on earth. She is His earthly mother and not ours. Should she be prayed to? No. She is not God, she has a special place, but is not God. We all have our beloved Jesus to care for us, and so did John, and Mary.
Was that Rosemary Verey? Excuse me if the spelling is adrift. David Hicks was a masterful designer, great to see this feature about him. And Rosemary was a pretty good designer in her own right. Visited Barnsley House many moons ago, and we bought a few plants from her, I still have some of the box and a Himalayan Lily, ( Cardiocrinum Giganteum) after all those years and a move to another garden. The Himalayan lily is an astonishing plant but you have to wait a few years for each successive flowering and the flowers themselves have a fabulous scent but you’ll need a ladder to reach them, our tallest was over 12ft high.
Fed up with these ‘mega mansions’ being saved, what about the ‘hovels’ and ‘seaside shanty communities’ of the ‘poor’ which have been destroyed over the last twenty to thirty years? Shelley Beach Exmouth comes to mind, fishing and hundred year old holiday homes bull dozed for another ‘docks housing complex’………. And don’t get me started on Castle Drogo……. The poor’s architecture matters as much as the rich for we are actually ‘the many’…………. National Trust, English Heritage as the phrase from old school reports goes ‘could do better’!? Waaay better…………
Amazing. Yet. yuu did not mention that this clock was stolen from palestine in 1922 by General Limby. This clock was installed and built by Ottoman caliph Abdul Hamid 2nd in Jerusalem in 1909
