{"id":9959,"date":"2015-04-28T11:28:48","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T18:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=9959"},"modified":"2015-04-28T11:48:27","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T18:48:27","slug":"grateful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/28\/grateful\/","title":{"rendered":"Grateful"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Autun\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s a bit odd to say that St-Lazare in Autun is one of my favorite churches: it’s kind of\u00a0like claiming to like to breathe air — true, but hardly original.<\/p>\n

After a wonderful morning of birding the Doubs<\/a>, I spent the afternoon in the hilltop cathedral, admiring the Romanesque spaces hidden so well inside a Gothic exterior. And of course I paid my lingering respects to Gislebertus and the west portal.<\/p>\n

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As I stood there beneath the porch thankful\u00a0for the chance to see these dazzling sculptures again, I noticed that gratitude was thematized above me, too.<\/p>\n

\"Autun,<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s the stork of fable ridding the wolf of a badly swallowed bone — in case you don’t remember, the stork’s request for a tip was met with a snarl:<\/p>\n

Count yourself lucky I didn’t bite your head off when it was between my teeth!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On the other side of the portal we find a positive exemplum of gratitude:<\/p>\n

\"Autun,<\/a><\/p>\n

This distressed lion remains faithful to Jerome after he has plucked\u00a0the offending thorn from his paw. (There’s also a fable in the Romulus tradition,\u00a0De pastore et leone<\/em>, but I doubt that any old shepherd would be dressed this well).<\/p>\n

After a day like this, I’m counting myself among the lions, not the ingrate\u00a0wolves.<\/p>\n

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It’s a bit odd to say that St-Lazare in Autun is one of my favorite churches: it’s kind of\u00a0like claiming to like to breathe air — true, but hardly original. After a wonderful morning of birding the Doubs, I spent the afternoon in the hilltop cathedral, admiring the Romanesque spaces hidden so well inside a … <\/p>\n

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