Europe has so many beautiful churches and so little use for them. No one wants to bulldoze a work or art but, then again, not many feel the need to go to church anymore. So what do you do with all the buildings? Many urban centers in the United States have this problem too. I've seen churches turned into art galleries and night clubs -this particular church in Venice has been converted into a museum of stringed instruments. Note that the central image has been removed and that the lamps of the presence are out. I'll let you make of it what you will.
I got my Super Nintendo Entertainment System when I was eleven years old. That's a couple years after it first came out. The occasion was a little dramatic: to celebrate the end of a two-and-a-half year course of treatment for cancer. I had no idea that it would be waiting for me at home after the final doctors visit. It was a nice spring day, the trees were waving gently in the breeze outside the bay windows. With a cup of tea resting on the coffee table, I set down to play. What was that first game? It was The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past . Around twenty years later, my SNES still works as does that Zelda cartridge. It's been a long way from boyhood in Southern Connecticut to manhood in North Houston, but I'm still playing. Why am I still playing? There were stretches when I didn't. Many times, I've just been too busy. There were also seasons when it felt embarrassing to still be playing video games....
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