TODAY'S PHOTO:
One of the most engaging Greek treasures to me, is the beautiful statue of "Iris", found today in the British Museum in London. There is just something about this statue's grace; an elegance that seems to extend beyond the broken limbs. It is perhaps her swiftness, captured in stone, that makes Iris seem both free and contained at the same time. I somehow associate "Iris" with this year's Olympic Games. Maybe it has something to do with her wings of gold, with which she sped through the skies and over Greece, delivering messages to Juno or Jupiter. Perhaps under London's clouds, I have seen several rainbows this week. Iris, the Rainbow Goddess known for descending from her "watery arch", gives us notice of the storms that are upon us; and thereafter indicates, in the calm, that a balance is restored.
No wonder William Shakespeare included Iris as a character in 'The Tempest'.
No wonder William Shakespeare included Iris as a character in 'The Tempest'.
- LONDON'S CALM, LONDON'S STORM -
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