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Architecture in Chicago, Part 1, Frank Lloyd Wright
No visit to Chicago would be complete without learning a bit about Frank Lloyd Wright and visiting one of the homes he designed. I visited the museum in Oak Park, an inner ring suburb just west of the city. The museum was the house and studio Wright created and where he lived for about 20…
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The Arts
Cities for me really mean access to the arts. I experienced so much and will do a different post for different categories. First, visual art. I visited the Art Institute twice, because there is just too much to take in on one trip. The first time I started with Impressionists, then went on to statues…
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Urban Life, part 2
Staying in the city, rather than a suburb, was a choice so that Sam could have a shorter commute to work and I could have a more urban experience. Chicago has 77 neighborhoods, so we wanted to experience many of them!! Since we weren’t able to find an apartment in Logan Square (where we have…
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Flowers!!!!
Summertime has so many flowers!! In our home: In the Hermosa neighborhoodi, where we live: Adorning businesses: In parks:
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Urban Life
For our summer in Chicago we are living in an extended Airbnb. It is a lovely apartment with lots of natural light. From the outside, one might not even know there was an apartment at the top! The staircase was a bit long – 37 stairs! But we are in better shape as a result…
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ChicaGO!
I have been vacationing in Chicago for two months! What a great city. I have visited Chicago many times since my first visit here in 1990. I now have an opinion that on their first day, a visitor should do an architectural boat tour. There are a bunch of different companies (I don’t have a…
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Angels
Saralyn and I found angel wings when walking around the Loop! I love that angels are among us, helping us through our days. I love that humans depict angels in all kinds of ways. Update: I felt certain I had seen angel wings in Taiwan at Taipei 101. I found the picture!
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Religion
My sister jokingly referred to my trip as my “eat, pray, love” trip. I figured it was more about eating, art and culture. I found myself surprised and moved by how much I cared about religion on the trip, though. It is hard for me to capture all my thoughts, so this might ramble a…
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Traveling with Privilege
I mentioned earlier that sometimes people wanted to take pictures with me because of my whiteness. This happened primarily in India, both Agra and Delhi. The tour guide told me the requests were primarily from people who lived in smaller communities who didn’t have white community members. I got to thinking about how I was…
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Non-verbal communication
I knew spoken and written language could be an issue for me as I traveled. I have the privilege of speaking English, which many folks around the world know, but I wanted to know some basic “please” and “thank you” in other languages so I didn’t feel *completely* like an imperialist! I had always loved…
MB Meets World 