This is the library, where I can sit and read – an area of contemplation, I suppose.
The Crown Sky Garden, on the 11th floor of the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, is a 5,000-square-foot 5,000-square-foot 5,000-square-foot the second heareag garden completed last year by Mikyoung Kim.
The next guest, Frankfurt artist Sarah Ortmeyer, due to check in this month, plans to remove the horse's head and transform her room into an "area of comfort and contemplation" in a tribute to the Eiffel Tower.
Miniature Japanese gardens with bamboo and stones are placed where the eye will fall at moments of rest and contemplation: while lounging in the waiting area, for example, or lolling in the whirlpool.
You end up contemplating your own contemplation.
Cornell libraries are dynamic spaces with wired and wireless access, social areas, and places for contemplation and study.
But that's a process that involves making the private, public; that necessitates revealing to the world the most delicate areas of experience and contemplation.
I have looked at myself, ashen, in the mirror of contemplation, and I have said aloud: The area under my tits will never be dry again.
Such a quadrangular area, intended as an environment for contemplation, study, or relaxation, was a feature of monastic establishments and thus of the colleges that evolved from them.
In Muslim areas, the Maimonidean regimen of philosophical contemplation was extended by Maimonides' son Abraham to a quest for pietist ecstasy that seemed to have much in common with Sufism (Islamic mysticism).
