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religious influences
Aug. 19th, 2008 09:20 amHad a nice walk in the countryside around Winterbourne yesterday, with the children. It was a bit damp, but we communed with some cows as we crossed their field, admire a lake at the bottom of the hill eventually reached the church, whose tall spire I had been aiming for. I know it's unforgivably goth of me, but I love old graveyards, the crumbling gravestones, the well established wild flowers, the yew trees, these things are restful to my eyes and I will always seek them out, grand ones like Arnos Vale or little overgrown ones in the middle of nowhere, doesn't matter.
This was a big church, graves dating around the late 18 hundreds, quite grand and included a big outdoor carved crucifix. The cross was weathered wood, with a little wooden roof over the top and the carving white and very familiar to me. I realised that I must have often seen a very similar one as a child, it felt strangely dear to me. I was suddenly stuck by the way the artist had carved the hair, falling over His shoulder as His head rests forward, Now, I'm slighty disturbed by the thought that my decided irreligious feelings concerning long hair on men goes back to this image which I gazed at as an impressionable girl.
Makes me wonder what images my children are storing up for later...sometimes it's scary being a parent.
I ought to point out that I was brought up high Church of England, but have abandoned it and my children are respectively a vehement atheist and a pantheist.
This was a big church, graves dating around the late 18 hundreds, quite grand and included a big outdoor carved crucifix. The cross was weathered wood, with a little wooden roof over the top and the carving white and very familiar to me. I realised that I must have often seen a very similar one as a child, it felt strangely dear to me. I was suddenly stuck by the way the artist had carved the hair, falling over His shoulder as His head rests forward, Now, I'm slighty disturbed by the thought that my decided irreligious feelings concerning long hair on men goes back to this image which I gazed at as an impressionable girl.
Makes me wonder what images my children are storing up for later...sometimes it's scary being a parent.
I ought to point out that I was brought up high Church of England, but have abandoned it and my children are respectively a vehement atheist and a pantheist.
