Sunset, Tuesday, 15 September 2009
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 08:41PM
BVD in 16th Street Baptist Church, Birmingham Alabama, Blue Ridge, Sunset Paintings, Sunsetology

William Theodore Van Doren. Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on paper, 16 x 20.

Every once in a while I look for events that might be worth commemorating. Today there were things like Napoleon reaching the Kremlin ... hmm, no ... Confederates capturing Harpers Ferry ... interesting, I guess ... Germany adopting the swastika on its national flag ... hmm – oh, O.K., here.

1963. The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama.

Not to be forgotten.

Blue cloud, rose light. Crystalline web, smoke ribbon. Strange that something so absolutely common as atmosphere should seem so infinitely complex, in the form of the sky.

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