2022 Cambridge, Boston

We left Boston early New Years Eve for a view of the fireworks from the thirteenth floor. During remodeling, our terraces were removed, so I didn't photograph them. We had mostly been at Macy's. Donna brought Christmas cards with her to the church library this morning, which I appreciated being part of- there are old post cards of the church to the front of the library entrance and tonight I came across that her church was the tallest building in the United States between 1810 and 1828, which included the War of 1812. The Old North Church is visible from where Tremont Street begins and that had been the tallest building in the United States prior to that, ostensibly why Paul Revere decided upon it during the Revolutionary War. Again, Paul Revere, who in fact lived untill 1818, is buried in the church yard adjacent to Donna's library, where I had lunch this afternoon while she was working at the library desk, and the grave yard can be seen from a window that amounts to what is a glass wall overlooking it, the glass wall the size of an entire room. This is the church one hundred years later, in 1910.

If you look at the bottom postcard, there is a tree that is visible and Paul Revere is buried behind it and the glass wall room sized window is facing him, not visible from this view. Donna gave Christmas cards to the minister and his wife, whom we have only known shortly, there having been four, one might say six ministers that we have known that are no longer with the church, but this morning there were alao members that we have known for longer than five years. It made for a nice morning. I happenned to be reading about the difference between the immortality of the soul and the resurrection of the body and how the conception of spiritual, angelic intermediate states may have arouse from that discourse. I also came across a biography of Cotton Mather- almost pure biography other than the exhortation "to be Fruitful" and someone had left a bookmark with a watercolor of Harvard Yard on it.Our half a room size almost all glass room window, where we could see the New Years fireworks, faces in the opposite direction of Harvard Yard, thirteen floors higher than it, where I can just see what is possibly our church steeple from its tip and just barely what seems to be the gold dome of the State House.