Baptist Church Building, (zaibatsu), 05/04/2019
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This is about life and art and beauty, not religion. I'm 
sitting in a rather large (though, I believe they come in 
even larger varieties) church building, a Baptist church, 
waiting for a homeschool graduation ceremony to start. My 
kids are in the choir (they're not quite old enough to be 
graduating yet.)

Did you know homeschoolers graduated? There's a fair amount 
of misconception around this point, so much so that you see 
cases end up in litigation from time-to-time with people 
getting abused later in life. I don't know how or why it 
happens.

Anyway, I'm not excied about the ceremony, I never felt 
graduation ceremonies were worth the time they take. It's 
good for someone though, and I suppose that's good enough 
for me. We're waiting around, my wife is helping out and my 
kids are practicing with the choir.

I don't know that I've been in a Baptist church before. I 
probably have, but none come to memory presently. This one 
is on the larger side, multi-story, with quite a few 
amenities that I'm not used to in a church; a library, 
coffee shop, etc. I'm stuck in a different era myself, so 
this is an interesting place to view.

Places of worship are beautiful to me. I've never been in 
one where I felt anything other than beauty (I'll post if I 
manage to find one.) They're often quiet, which I enjoy. 
They're usually clean. Quiet and clean feels right to me, 
even if life isn't generally those things in the wider 
world.

There is a lack of art in this building, for some reason. I 
wandered around and on this level the most artistic thing I 
found was an old wooden phone booth in a corner, with a 
folding glass door and and a brass "TELEPHONE" plaque (no 
payphone inside, just a regular old phone, but still 
awesome); there's a painting of some flowers, a framed photo 
tribute to the national guard, and a generic print of a 
nativity scene, and that's it. Lot's of empty wall space 
where paintings could fit. I enjoy empty space too, though.

There are plenty of windows, and a lot of natural light. The 
architecture is pleasant, but not artistic.

It's not a bad place to spend some time waiting.