The garden's hidden treasures present themselves in bits and pieces of broken sculptures, a cracked concrete face that appears in the scraggly undergrowth, an oddly shaped paving stone decorated with mysterious hieroglyphics and partially concealed by moss.
Conditional statements only make us plan far into the future, and make us forget how to treasure the present and seize the day.
"Curios and Treasures" presents several thin, wonderfully transparent slices of aesthetic and social history, like random frames excerpted from a film.
What the show has in its favour, in addition to a national treasure presenting it, is the time and space to indulge musically.
A new exhibition at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, "Teapot Treasures," presents the teapot in a variety of incarnations throughout history, and is certain to make people look at their own with freshly opened eyes.
For an economically depressed town that offers few employment opportunities and has seen droves of younger people seek their fortunes elsewhere, the Morgantina treasure presents new hope for the future.
For the scholar of fairytales, this is a collection to treasure, gorgeously presented in its gold and turquoise binding, intelligently translated and saturated with the ancient, exotic, playful, romantic, multifaceted and tolerant culture which the Wahhabi interpretation of Arab faith has done its best to obliterate.
I still question if the very well paid people showing up on the red carpet really treasure the presents, given the fact that most of them can afford to buy all that stuff anyways.
At present, Zhang Dali is treasured by his people as a folk-hero, whose paintings sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars here in the United States.
Treasure the present moment.
