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Wisdom

Trinity Sunday

Memorial Day

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PITTONI, Giovanni Battista

The Nativity with God the Father and the Holy Ghost

The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/giovanni-battista-pittoni-the-nativity-with-god-the-father-and-the-holy-ghost

The painting is probably a mature work of about 1740, but nothing is known about its origin. The subject is unusual, though not unique, in combining the themes of the Nativity and the Trinity. A similar, though not identical, subject was treated by Murillo in his painting 'The Heavenly and Earthly Trinities' in the National Gallery.

True wisdom is such that no evil use can ever be made of it.

                                                            ~ St. Augustine

Better keep yourself clean and bright;

you are the window through which you must see the world.

                                                            ~ George Bernard Shaw

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Kathi with her grandson, Trevor, at Wednesday breakfast.

Memories in the Making

Artists’ Reception

Thursday, May 27, 2010

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Carol’s last painting, A Reasonable Thing,

paired with Summer Land, by Tracy Russell.

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Proud Perry with his mother, Marion.

Marion’s painting will be in the live auction at Invesco Field in two weeks.

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Jan with Joanne Fisher, Co-Director of Memories in the Making for the Alzheimer’s Association.

One of Jan’s paintings (top right) was incorporated into a quilt and Joanne embroidered Jan’s painting.

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Our Rotary Dine-Around dinner was at Diane and Lyle’s home.

Yum!

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Carolyn looking for a bear.

Diane and Lyle’s property runs right along Open Space and

they have a resident bear and cub who beat a path along their fence.

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Marcia, Al

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A red-winged black bird and a mama duck with two ducklings

at the lake this morning.

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Early morning sparkles

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

                                                            ~ Kahlil Gibran

May 30, 2010    Trinity Sunday

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“I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own, but will speak whatever he hears, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, because he will take what is mine and declare it to you. All that the Father has is mine. For this reason I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.

John 16:12-15

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

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Agnus Day appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org

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Memorial Day Sonnet

We're here to honor those who went to war
Who did not wish to die, but did die, grievously,
In eighteen sixty-one and in two-thousand four
Though they were peaceable as you or me.
Young and innocent, they knew nothing of horror ---
Singers and athletes, and all in all well-bred.
Their sergeants, mercifully, made them into warriors,
And at the end, they were moving straight ahead.
As we look at these headstones, row on row on row,
Let us see them as they were, laughing and joking,
On that bright irreverent morning long ago.
And once more, let our hearts be broken.
      God have mercy on them for their heroic gift.
      May we live the good lives they would have lived.

 ~ Garrison Keillor ~

(A Prairie Home Companion, May 29, 2004)

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Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31
Psalm 8
Romans 5:1-5
John 16:12-15