picture from my childhood...

[capri0mni]

Perhaps it's because I'm working on a story based on Goodnight Moon, but this afternoon, my mind turned back to a picture that used to hang on my bedroom wall -- one of Edward Hicks' versions of The Peacable Kingdom (he painted about 60 different versions, through his lifetime). On a whim, I wanted to see if I could find the one version that I knew (it's now hanging in Dad's kitchen).

It took a little bit of shuffling through pages, but I did find it, here: Peacable Kingdom, 1845 (though the lefthand side is severely cropped -- the Native Americans in the background are completely cut out of the picture -- boo!). I think that picture had been in my daily view since babyhood, and has shaped my view of what the world is like as much as anything else. So I thought I'd share (more meaningful than a generic quiz meme).

Do you remember what pictures were on your walls as a small child or baby? Do you think any of those pictures still color who you are today?

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[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Well, Edmund Hicks was a Quaker "minister" (they didn't have any ordained clergy, but he was respected as a speaker when it came to explaining the Friends' tenets), so it's not surprising they'd have one of his paintings, somewhere on the premises...* but to have that version of the painting is rather unusual, I guess...

I always loved the detail in it, and the fact that the grownup were way in the background and the kids and the animals were up front.

*And his elder cousin, Elias Hicks, was leader of a Friends' sect that downplayed the divinity of Christ, the Virgin Birth, and all that. So I'd expect a Quaker retreat that welcomed Pagan gatherings to be rather Hicks-friendly.