Wee Gus has coffee with Archbishop of Canterbury

I have been sticking pretty close to home, rearranging furniture, cleaning, trips to the charity shops, cleaning, watering the garden, cleaning and working on a watercolor I am making for my eldest daughter, Courtney. Since I have done nothing of note to blip about, I thought I would blip Wee Gus having coffee with the Archbishop of Canterbury.

A few weeks ago my father was here visiting and he asked me why I had the A of C on my mantle. It was not really a question, more of a comment with an inflection at the end, as of course he knows why I have the Archbishop on my mantle, it is because, as he says, "You have more religious art than the Vatican!" He sees it as religious, I see it as interesting and beautiful, I was unaware that I had such a theme going, until he pointed it out. Over the years I have been drawn to these pieces when I find them in 2nd had shops or antique stores and bring them home with me (sometimes I pay first :)

I don't set out to find something religious but it seems to happen that way. Maybe because I was never steeped in religion as a child I see these thing as speaking of love and peace rather than sentries standing in as reminders of a doctrine's moral castigation.

But I was so pleased that dad identified the Archbishop independently! I asked him how he knew who this was and he replied, "because it looks like him." I looked it up and it does look very much like the A of C, Geoffrey Fisher, who had some interesting (?) views on the use nuclear weapons. But Wee Gus will set him to right over coffee.