Family and Choices
The
crowd came together again, so that Jesus and his disciples could not even eat.
When his family heard it, they went out to restrain him, for people were
saying, "He has gone out of his mind." And the scribes who came down
from Jerusalem said, "He has Beelzebul, and by the ruler of the demons he
casts out demons." And he called them to him, and spoke to them in
parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against
itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house is divided against itself,
that house will not be able to stand. And if Satan has risen up against himself
and is divided, he cannot stand, but his end has come. But no one can enter a
strong man's house and plunder his property without first tying up the strong
man; then indeed the house can be plundered.
"Truly
I tell you, people will be forgiven for their sins and whatever blasphemies
they utter; but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit can never have
forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin" -- for they had said,
"He has an unclean spirit."
Then his mother and his brothers came; and standing outside, they sent to him and called him. A crowd was sitting around him; and they said to him, "Your mother and your brothers and sisters are outside, asking for you." And he replied, "Who are my mother and my brothers?" And looking at those who sat around him, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother."
Mark 3:20-35
Family
of Man / The Brotherhood of Mankind
ARMENGOL,
Mario
1967
Calgary,
Canada
Seeing as how this sculpture is a
Calgary landmark, it may surprise many people to know that this piece by Mario
Armengol was not originally intended to be a work of public art. In fact, these
characters were initially created as props for the British Pavilion at Expo'67
in Montreal.
The British pavilion was shaped like
a huge cone and had a very high ceiling and these figures were actually inside
the lobby of the building. Each figure represents gifts that Britain gave to
its colonies, like justice and law.
At the end of the exposition,
Britain did not want to keep the props. A Calgary construction company, Maxwell
Cummings & Sons, bought them and donated them to the City of Calgary. They
decided that the figures would be placed on Calgary Board of Education land
located between 4th and 5th Avenue on Macleod Trail SE. But it was the parks
department crew that unloaded the shipment made the decision to arrange the
figures in a circle, and they have remained in that configuration ever
since.
In 1967 Calgarians were outraged!
These elongated, abstract, and notably naked figures were seen as offensive but
over the years they have endured and are now one of Calgary’s better known
landmarks. Its silhouette has been adopted as the logo of the Calgary Board of
Education.
http://www.calgary.ca/CSPS/Recreation/Pages/Public-Art/Downtown-Public-Art-Circuit-tour.aspx
You must remember, family is often born of blood,
but it doesn’t depend on blood.
Nor is it exclusive of friendship.
Family members can be your best friends, you know.
And best friends, whether or not they are related to you,
can be your family.
~
Trenton Lee Stewart
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone
could give another person,
he believed in me.
~
Jim Valvano
Memories in the Making
Artists’ Tea and Reception
Thursday,
June 4, 2014
Balfour
at Riverfront Park
Denver,
Colorado
http://www.balfouratriverfrontpark.com
How
lovely of them to host our event!
This
is an annual tea for the Alzheimer artists whose paintings have been selected
to
be auctioned off at the big art auction next week.
Linda
Mitchell, CEO Colorado Alzheimer’s Association, and Marilyn Herrs,
Activity
Director, Life Care Center of Evergreen
"Bouquet
of Flowers from My Garden”
by
Helen McMillan
Life
Care Center of Evergreen
We
lost Helen this last year.
She
would have loved to have learned that her painting was selected!
Karen
Spotts, on the left, is a professional Evergreen artist who chose to paint a
companion piece (on the top)
for
Marge Tinkey’s painting on the bottom.
“After the
Storm" by Karen Spotts
“Lost in a Hurricane”
(bottom) by Marge Tinkey
Seniors’ Resource Center Evergreen
Marge was thrilled to see her painting framed!!!
“Golden Eagle"
by Barry Saliman
Clermont
Park
Barb Sexton
Barb
lost her husband to Alzheimer’s this last year and in memory of him,
her
daughter (below) painted a companion piece to go with Barry
Saliman’s “Golden Eagle.”
Barb
is holding an eagle feather from her ranch in hopes of giving it to Barry.
Cora Wheeler
painted
this companion piece to go with Barry’s “Golden Eagle.”
Unfortunately,
we learned that Barry is no longer living.
Cora
and her mother, Barb Sexton, had really looked forward to meeting
him
and presenting him with the eagle feather.
After
the tea, Ginny and Rick Bailey invited me to see their
2-bedroom
apartment there at Balfour at the Riverfront
in
downtown Denver by Union Station.
Rick
and Sammy Bailey
One
of their bedrooms.
We
had a lovely lunch in the Balfour dining room.
Ginny
said they appear to be the youngest residents.
Sculpture Evergreen
Artists’ Reception
Friday,
June 5, 2015
Gail
Riley, BC Jacoby, Bert Newman
Barbara
Sternberg
Barbara,
her husband, Eugene, and a few other people started what is now Sculpture
Evergreen in 1994.
Phillip
Whiting, from Breaux Bridge, LA, won the Sternberg Award of Excellence for his
sculpture,
“Amazon
with Divine Geometry.”
“Amazon
with Divine Geometry”
by
Phillip Whiting
How are you greeting each day?
Is it with an attitude of expectation and confidence?
Or do you rise with a sense of depression and dread?
You have a choice.
And as the day unfolds, there are more choices, moment by
moment.
The day is an empty canvas.
The shapes and colors the canvas gives back to you will be
the shapes and colors you put there.
The shapes and colors are yours to choose.
~
Edith Niblo *
June 7, 2015 2nd Sunday after Pentecost—10th
Sunday in Ordinary Time/Proper 5
Previous
OPQs may be found at:
*
From Pat Wiederspan’s Memorial Service three years ago.
Agnus Day, by
James Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the permission
of www.agnusday.org
1
Samuel 8:4-11, (12-15), 16-20 with Psalm 138
Genesis 3:8-15 with Psalm 130
2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1
Mark 3:20-35
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