kitewithfish

This icon , called the Fatherhood or Paternity Icon, depending on how you translate the Russian "Otechestvo" is a heretical and bad icon. This is because it depicts God the Father in the form of the Ancient of Days, which is forbidden. Icons may not show God the father except in certain understood symbols. Also, showing the Holy Spirit as a dove except at the instance of Jesus's baptism (where the Holy Spirit canonically showed up as a dove) is also not okay. But lots of people do it anyways.

Russian has words that distinguish "azure" from "(dark) blue" with much the same emphasis that English distinguishes "pink" from "red."- They are perceived as related but totally different colors, like pink and red in English.

In signing up for a school that has quarters, I am signed up for a full 50% more finals per year! Great fun!

Icons often show a distinct kind of perspective called "inverse perspective"- this shows objects increases in size as they get farther away from you. This is done deliberately- you are not supposed to be able to think that the icon is reality, because it's NOT! Verisimilitude was a not a virtue in the icon-writing business.

There is a really good kind of mint green tea ( that originally came out "mink grean" and I was tempted to let it stay that way for my own amusement.) at the other library's cafe that I think I might go have.