Illuminated Bulletin: Creative Platypus

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Happy day after Hobbit Day everyone! In addition to language learning, much of the past few months has been taken up with studying archaeology and art history including a trip to the Getty Center (Egypt: Beyond the Nile) and a symposium at the Lanier (United Israelite Kingdom Seminar). Along the way, I've been studying the distinctive designs of Greek polei, Scythian tribes, and Etruscan city-states. So, to get all that out of my system, I decided to illuminate this Sunday's church bulletin in a medley of styles with a little Art Nouveau thrown in for good measure.

As Summer is also on its way out, I will be trying to put together another "Seven Heavens of Summer Reading" awards list. We'll see if there's enough "summer reading" to qualify, given how technical things have been lately. In the meantime, the Platypus speaks Truth.

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