Peonies, Day 2

โ€œA peony for your thoughts?โ€
ยฉ๏ธ2020 by Gloria M. Chang

โ€œA penny for your thoughtsโ€ is an idiom used to ask what someone is thinking about. It was first coined by St. Thomas More (1478-1535) in his book, Four Last Things:

โ€œAs it often happeth that the very face sheweth the mind walking a pilgrimage, in such wise that, not without some note and reproach of such vagrant mind, other folk suddenly say to them, โ€˜A penny for your thought.โ€™โ€… Read the rest

Head of the Class

16th century icon of St. John the Precursor at the Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
โ€œReport Card of St. John the Baptistโ€
ยฉ๏ธ2020 by Gloria M. Chang

Herod the tetrarch heard of the reputation of Jesus and said to his servants, โ€œThis man is John the Baptist.

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