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White Collar Hippie Part III

It would take me becoming a hermit living nearly 24/7 in my studio to come clean.  To face myself.  I had to remove everything.  Like the king standing naked before his astonished masses acting as if nothing is 'wrong'.   Their mouths hung agape with both the nakedness and the demonstration of a smile, such as in the pop song,Tears of a Clown.

The word agape has a multitude of meanings:  

 Agape comes from the verb gape, meaning "to open wide or split."
The Latin Agape: (with accent) refers to the highest form of divine love.  Seeing that love has 5 facets.  https://kenboa.org/living-out-your-faith/five-loves-greatest-agape/

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The brick and mortar buildings from Amesbury to Omaha are filled with antiquities.

Man has used brick for building purpose for thousands of years. Bricks date back to 7000 BC, which makes them one of the oldest known building materials. They were discovered in southern Turkey at the site of an ancient settlement around the city of Jericho. 
The first bricks, made in areas with warm climates, were mud bricks dried in the sun for hardening. 
Ancient Egyptian bricks were made of clay mixed with straw. The evidence of this can be seen today at ruins of Harappa Buhen and Mohenjo-daro. Paintings on the tomb walls of Thebes portray Egyptian slaves mixing, tempering and carrying clay for the sun dried bricks.   The greatest breakthrough came with the invention of fired brick in about 3,500 Bc. From this moment on, bricks could be made without the heat of sun and soon became popular in cooler climates. 
The Romans prefered to make their bricks in spring, then they stored them for two years before selling or using them. They only used white or red clay to manufacture bricks. The Romans succeeded in introducing fired bricks to the entire country thanks to mobile kilns. These were bricks stamped with the mark of the legion who supervised the brick production. Roman bricks differed in size and shape from other ancient bricks as they were more commonly round, square, oblong, triangular and rectangular. The kiln fired bricks measured 1 or 2 Roman feet by 1 Roman foot, and sometimes up to 3 Roman feet with larger ones. The Romans used brick for public and private buildings over the entire Roman empire. They built walls, forts, cultural centre, vaults, arches and faces of their aqueducts. The Herculaneum gate of Pompeii  and the baths of Caracalla in Rome  are examples of Roman brick structures.   -  Bricks were made by hand until about 1885. Once the Industrial Revolution broke out, the brickmaking machinery was introduced. Consequently, the number of clays that could be made into brick was greatly increased which influenced the production capacity. Handmade brick production ranged up to 36,000 bricks per week but by 1925 a brickmaking machine made 12,000 bricks a day.  Brick Architecture

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