One of the Buddha sculptures in the Yale Art Gallery in New Haven communicates to us, with his hands making the Abhaya mudra: "have no fear, peace, protection and benevolence". Suitable to take to heart these days and for the coming months.
Our reason to travel to New Haven was to see the show "Roman in the Provinces".
http://artgallery.yale.edu/exhibitions/exhibition/roman-provinces-art-periphery-empire
This exhibition will travel to the McMullen at BC and can be visited there starting February 14.
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/artmuseum/
All over in Europe there are still Roman ruins and the cultures and languages are rooted in the Roman empire. Therefore this long gone empire is always fascinating to learn more about. The facts of human nature are surprisingly familiar even to us in the 21th Century.
