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Looking down from Saint Mary’s Basilica

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Rynek Underground

Today’s photo comes from the Bugle Tower of St. Mary’s Basilica in Krakow, Poland. The tower is currently closed for renovations, but it was open during Covid when I took this in 2021. The object in this photo is a fountain in Krakow’s main square that was built in 2010. If you look very closely you can see that it was operating. The water doesn’t run down the glass pyramid in the center. Sometimes the pyramid is completely covered in pigeons. The glass pyramid is the roof of a museum called the Rynek Underground. I didn’t visit the museum, but I don’t remember why I didn’t. Perhaps it wasn’t open because of Covid when I was in Krakow.

Chicago Jazz?

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Magdaleny Różowicz and Grzegorza Brusa @ Chicago Jazz Live Music (Krakow, Poland – June 2021)

Not exactly.

The year was 2021. Concert venues were still closed in most places in the world. Krakow, Poland was beginning to reopen. I think this may have been the first act to perform at Chicago Jazz Live Music in 16 months or so. The other venues in Krakow didn’t have anything happening so this was about my only option on a Friday night. I think there were about six or seven of us in the audience, and I was probably the only one not somehow related to the performers.

Wawel Royal Castle

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Krakow, Poland – June 2021

Peering out of Wawel Royal Castle

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Wawel Royal Castle (Krakow, Poland – June 2021)

Metal Monday

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Limbo of Gruzja (Warsaw, Poland – July 2021)

The Zone of Interest

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I decided to go to the movies yesterday. I like to be surprised at the movies so I tend to avoid any that I’ve seen a trailer for or have heard the plot in advance. Instead, I look at the IMDB ratings for the movies showing at my local theater and pick the one with the highest rating. Yesterday that turned out to be “The Zone of Interest”. Wow! What a powerful movie.

Along a similar note, I read Geddy Lee’s biography a couple of months ago.

“I clutch the wire fence
Until my fingers bleed
A wound that will not heal —
A heart that cannot feel —
Hoping that the horror will recede
Hoping that tomorrow —
We’ll all be freed”