Healing

A leper came to him begging him, and kneeling he said to him, "If you choose, you can make me clean." Moved with pity, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him, "I do choose. Be made clean!" Immediately the leprosy left him, and he was made clean. After sternly warning him he sent him away at once, saying to him, "See that you say nothing to anyone; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, as a testimony to them." But he went out and began to proclaim it freely, and to spread the word, so that Jesus could no longer go into a town openly, but stayed out in the country; and people came to him from every quarter.

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon on the Mount and Healing of the Leper

ROSSELLI, Cosimo

PIERO di Cosimo

about 1481-1482

Fresco

Cappella Sistina, Vatican City
http://www.biblical-art.com/artwork.asp?id_artwork=6180&showmode=Full

Cosimo Rosselli’s successful career (the highpoint of which was painting frescoes in the Sistine Chapel together with Botticelli, Ghirlandaio and Perugino) was based on his facility and high standard of craftsmanship rather than on any great distinction or originality as an artist. His pupils included Fra Bartolomeo and Piero di Cosimo.

http://www.wga.hu/tours/sistina/index_b.html

If you have not seen this before, it is worth a look!

360-degree Interactive Virtual Tour of the Sistine Chapel:
http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html

Healing is impossible in loneliness;

it is the opposite of loneliness.

Conviviality is healing.

To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation.

~ Wendell Berry

Healing yourself

is connected with healing others.

~ Yoko Ono

Colorado Cowgirls in Mongolia

Kay and Loie (on their horses above) gave a delightful and amazing presentation at Tuscany Tavern

highlighting their three week riding and camping trip to Mongolia!!! What a trip they had!

They were in the saddle for six to ten hours a day and set up a ger (yurt) in their base camp.

Kay La Montagne, Loie Evans, and Spencer (Loie’s granddaughter)

These are pictures from their presentation.

I was so mesmerized I neglected to take any pictures of their amazing camping trip.

At the end of their camping trip, they attended an eagle festival

where the Mongolians fly eagles the way falcons are flown here.

Amazing.

Bactrian camels

Loie brought back a bridle (among other things).

I’m taking a class with Chuck Danford (sitting).

Bonnie, on the right, is the only person I know in the class.

Artists with Altitude

February 9, 2012

The Gallery at Genesee

http://www.artistswithaltitude.com/galleries.htm

Carolyn (Artist) and Russ Campbell

Peggy and David Markham

(I had not seen Peggy for years!)

Jane Christie (Artist)

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.

Talent will not; nothing is more common

than unsuccessful people with talent.

Genius will not; unrewarded

genius is almost a proverb.

Education will not; the world is

full of educated derelicts.

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

The slogan "press on" has solved and always

will solve the problems of the human race.”

~ Calvin Coolidge

February 12, 2012 Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Previous OPQs may be found at:

http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm

Mark 1:40-45

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

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

2 Kings 5:1–14

Ps. 30

1 Cor. 9:24–27

Mark 1:40–45