The Cloisters Museum
I visited the Cloisters Museum yesterday afternoon. The Medieval collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of my favorite places to visit, not only here in New York City, but anywhere. It is one of the memberships I have that I feel proud to be a part of and actually use. 
I
feel like I am going back to visit old friends, and here at my Spring visit I took a few pictures now that the flowers are in bloom and the leaves are on the trees. I sat in the internal cloister and listened to a recording of chants. I considered some of what I learned from PDF2007, my growing interests in philosophy, how Posey has recovered from her tumor, how I really want to visit France again, and how nice it is for a perpetually
working/researching/teaching edu-geek such as me to finally have a place of peace and contemplation. I wonder if those Benedictines and Carthusians and such got it right all those years ago . . .
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