From “January” by Betty Adcock:
Wind hisses and one shadow
sways where a window’s lampglow
has added something. The rest
is dark and light together tolled
against the boundary-riven
houses. Against our lives,
the stunning wholeness of the world.
January is about: darkness and light; shadows and sun; keeping the cold outside and the inside warm; and, lots and lots of books.
Here is the fifth, and final (finally!) installment of my Museum of Science photos. At the end of our trip, we just spent some time wandering through a few exhibits on the Lower Level in the last few minutes before the museum closed.
From Rainer Maria Rilke’s “The Birth of Christ”:
Each golden artifact and perfumed spice
That roams distraught among the senses –
All these were of such sudden brevity
And, in the end, brought only sorrow.
One of our favorite places at the Museum of Science is the Natural Mysteries exhibit. According to a sign in the exhibit, a large portion of this collection was donated by Rachel Warren Barton (pictured below, right).
In this third part of my series on our trip to the Museum of Science, I’d like to share some of the beautiful architectural details and art installations that we saw there.
