My second stop on my Total Eclipse cross-country road trip
in Chicago was the Chicago Art Institute.
It was a chance to meet up with my longtime friend Tom. Tom and I both graduated from the same
university (back when it was still just a college!), we both worked for the
same school district in Kentucky, we both worked at the Kentucky Dept. of Education
at the same time, AND his daughter was in my first class of students when she
was in 6th grade back in 1985-86!
We hadn't actually been together since 1994, and it was such a wonderful
thing to have this opportunity.
After lunch we toured the current Gauguin exhibition. No photos in the show, so I have
captured some of the images from online sources. I so enjoyed our conversation on the merits of the artist
and his vision and talents. Tom is
one of those people who thinks deeply about life. I so appreciate that and only wish we had more opportunities
to converse. On an aside, I
discover the Little Free Library movement through him--and look at what a
wonderful thing mine has become for me and my community?
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