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This is a detail featuring the Magi (Wise Men) from a 500 year-old painting by Hieronymus Bosch (1450 – 1516) an Early Netherlandish painter. “His work is known for its fantastic imagery, detailed landscapes and illustrations of moral and religious concepts and narratives.” – WIKIPEDIA

Anytime I run across a trippy image of the Magi like this one, I immediately remember what Chesterton said:

“The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the sheep, the more do we let ourselves go, in dark and gorgeous imaginative frescoes or pageants about the mystery and majesty of the Three Magian Kings.”
– G.K. Chesterton,  Christendom in Dublin, Ch.3

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“Football player in the second row
never knew that she was beautiful.
Momma’s crying with her head down low,
Daddy with the video.

Drummers drum and the horns all blow.
Marching band is circling tight.
Everyone is moving in slow-mo.
She’s at the speed of light.

And the valedictorian
sheds her clothes in the midday,
between spring and summer sun,
she says, “This is who I am,
and I’ll never see any of you ever again.”

Oh, the principal and counselors close in,
trying to avert a scene.
She just keeps on sticking to her speech,
feeling like a prom queen.

Somebody shuts off the microphone.
Pandemonium ensues.
She turns and runs across the football field
in nothing but her socks and shoes.

And the valedictorian
sheds her clothes in the midday,
between spring and summer sun,
She says, “this is who I am.
and I’ll never see any of you ever again.””

- Matt the Electrician, "Valedictorian"

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