We hope you enjoyed our July 2021 issue. Next month in This Awful Awesome Life, we’ll be talking about getting the most out of the summer before the kids head back to school – hopefully, they’ll be back to their physical classrooms full time and fully vaccinated.

August is National Picnic Month. What will you be putting in your picnic basket?  We’ll have a few suggestions. August 9 is Book Lovers’ Day, so we’ll have some great August reading recommendations for kids and adults and a book review. I haven’t decided on the book yet, but I have a few ideas.

I met a wonderful group of nurses from our local hospital recently and they told me about some of their greatest wishes for their patients and our community. I think you’ll be surprised.

We’ll have a fun quiz and another interesting article from Orlando Bartro. Lilly Kauffman will be back with an amusing story about back to school. Linda Cahill will have more quick and delicious recipes from Pampered Chef to help you make the most out of those delicious summer fruits and vegetables. We’ll also have a few surprises for you, so be sure to check us out next month!

Stay safe, stay well; you are important, and you are loved.

All my best,

Fran

Answers to the July 2021 Museum Quiz:

The Jack Pine by Tom Thomson (34)

Sculpture of Ovonramwen being exiled (40)

This museum displays a 17th century 64-gun warship – the only almost intact one ever salvaged (14)

Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci (20)

Peaceable Kingdom (c. 1834) by Edward Hicks – (one of the 61 paintings in The Peaceable Kingdom series) (4)

This museum exhibits the most important archaeological remains of the Mochica Culture. (39)

Irises by Vincent Van Gogh (8)

The Old Guitarist by Pablo Picasso (23)

The Dancing Class by Edgar Degas (32)

La maja desnuda (The Nude Maja) by Francisco Goya (18)

Michelangelo’s sculpture, David (11)

Windows Open Simultaneously (First Part, Third Motif) by Robert Delaunay (33)

This museum has the world’s largest specimen of the rare colossal squid (1)

Self Portrait by Vincent Van Gogh (24)

Waterfall in the Forest (Cachoeira na Floresta) by Frans Post (6)

The Early Spring, by Guo Xi (30)

This museum was built over top of an archaeological site; its floor has several glass panels to show the excavations below. (16)

The Market Gate of Miletus (10)

This Museum has an extensive collection of Khon Masks (38)

The Sea at L’Estaque by Paul Cézanne (17)

Madonna of the Meadow by Raphael (27)

There is a portion of Atlantic Wall on display on the campus of this museum (9)

The Return of the Prodigal Son by Rembrandt (19)

Waterfall (Von prora nach Oostende) by Franz Ackerman (3)

The Gold Mask of Tutankhamun (29)

This museum houses the world’s largest collection of erotic ceramics. (22)

Behold Thy Son by David Driskell (36)

The Stone of Tizoc (25)

Jacob’s Ladder or Jacob’s Dream by William Blake (13)

You will find The Hall of Names in this Museum. (5)

Jazz by Noemi Ruiz (28)

Instead of maintaining a permanent collection, this facility, with 14,000 square meters of exhibition space, is a venue for various art exhibitions, outreach activities through its educational programs, and an Art Library to collect and disseminate information related to art. (37)

The Yellow House by Vincent Van Gogh (12)

Over 7,000 pottery soldiers, horses, chariots, and weapons from the Qin Dynasty have been unearthed at this museum site. (21)

The Mercury Friendship 7 spacecraft (7)

The largest museum of contemporary African Art in the world. (35)

The Love Letter by Jan Vermeer (15)

Femme au Chapeau (Woman with a Hat) by Henri Matisse (26)

Juanito Laguna Going to the Factory by Antonio Berni (2)

Self Portrait by Rembrandt van Rijn (31)

 1.     Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington

2.     Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires

3.     Inhotim in Brumadinho, Brazil

4.     National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

5.     Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem

6.     Instituto Ricardo Brennand in Recife, Brazil

7.     Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

8.     The Getty Center in Los Angeles

9.     The National WWII Museum in New Orleans

10.  Pergamon Museum in Berlin

11.  Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence

12.  The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam

13.  The British Museum in London

14.  The Vasa Museum in Stockholm

15.  Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam

16.  The Acropolis Museum in Athens

17.  The National Gallery in London

18.  Museo Nacional Del Prado in Madrid

19.  State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg

20.  The Musée du Louvre in Paris

21.  The Museum of Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses in Xi'an, China

22.  Museo Larco in Lima

23.  The Art Institute of Chicago

24.  Musée D'Orsay in Paris

25.  Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City

26.  The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

27.  Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna

28.  Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico

29.  The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo

30.  The National Palace Museum in Taipei

31.  Mauritshuis in The Hague, Netherlands

32.  The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City

33.  Tate Modern in London

34.  National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa

35.  Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town

36.  National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.

37.  The National Art Center in Tokyo

38.  Bangkok National Museum

39.  Museum of the Royal Tombs of Sipán in Chiclayo, Peru

40.  Museum of Black Civilizations in Dakar, Senegal