Monday, March 11, 2002
We have inherited a three foot tall, solid (except fot the pedestal) bronze statue of what looks to me to be a Hindu goddess. She is standing on her right foot, holding her left foot up against her right thigh, and cupping her hands palms-up by her waist. She is wearing a heavily decorated belt and necklace, has a halo behind her head. Her posture to me is very similar to the dancing Shiva (I don't remember the name given to that particular aspect), so I'm thinking she might be Parvati. What do you think? (Edited to add picture on 3/12. For scale: just to her right, that is the base of a torchiere lamp.)
After years of resistance, I found myself sucked in on Friday night to The Brady Bunch Movie -- the one from a few years ago that put the Brady family anachronistically into the 1990s -- and I have to say it's hilarious. Those actors were just channelling the Bradys.
Happy birthday, Nana.
