MORNING STAR. CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING JuLY 2016

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1 MORNING STAR CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING JuLY 2016 The Evening Star, The Moon, The Morning Star and The Polar Star are among the many treasures of Alphonse Mucha. Sunday Celebration Services at 10:00 a.m. Senior Citizen Center 329 S. Peters Avenue Norman, Oklahoma

2 On Sunday July 3! National Ice Cream Month Make your favorite recipe or bring ice cream! Or chocolate something; or red, white and blue potato salad! July 3 - Awesome Morning Star Band Jam Our own Awesome Morning Star Band will provide an inspirational musical jam that will invoke singing, dancing and open hearts. Meditator - Jeanne Flanigan July 10 - Charlotte Hayes A Spiritual Awaking with a Little Band from Across the Pond Take a short journey with Charlotte Hayes as we explore the spiritual awaking of a teenage girl from Norman Oklahoma and the impact this band had on her direction in life. Charlotte Hayes was born and raised right here in Norman. She has had the privilege of taking care of many heads of hair for 32 years. Charlotte also teaches organizing classes and has been known to personally help someone with their organizational challenges. Charlotte and her husband Greg have been participants in Morning Star for 16 years. Meditator - Diane Vanlandingham July 17 - Alexandra Duricikova Visiting John of God: Miracles among Imperfections Alexandra will talk about her personal experience while visiting John of God in Abadiania, Brazil. Alex (because Alexandra was too long for her first boss in the US), works as an assistant professor at the Price College of Business at OU. She teaches classes on MIS (Management Information Systems). Alexandra was born and raised in communist Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and moved to US in Alexandra is a natural healing enthusiast and explored healing through juicing and muscles diet. Visiting John of God was the latest of her experiences in alternative medicine. She very much enjoys coming to Morning Star! Meditator - Karen Marx

3 July 24 - Dave Jordan Choices Dave Jordan was released from prison on June 9, Eight and half years of incarceration gave Dave more than enough time to reflect on his choices in life. He was a family man, hard worker, enjoyed life with family and friends, never getting in trouble with the law, until one fateful night ten years ago. That night Dave had an accident that forever changed his life. Dave will share his journey as he faces the consequences of his choices. Meditator - Toni Cameron July 31 - Jody White Awakenings, Growth and Action: My Non-stop Quest for Peace and Goodness Jody White has been a member of the Morning Star community for a year, board member about half of that time. He is a husband and father of four children from middle school to college. Being a part of the solution has fueled a quest that has produced both questions and solutions. Meditator - Emily Spivey There will be no board meeting in July! MORNING STAR BOARD Teresa Collado - Chief Steward Tom Massey Assistant Chief Steward Mary Bruehl - Administrative Steward Barb Burcham - Financial Steward Lew Blockcolski, Helen Duchon, Charlotte Hayes, Thom Marak, Jody White, Mike Zorba Advisors Mucha s Summer SISTERS IN SPIRIT Tuesday, July 12 th 7:00 P.M. The Zen of Seeing (Seeing/Drawing as Meditation) Seeing/Drawing is a way of getting into intimate touch with the visible world around us, and through it.with ourselves. We will be outside for about 30 minutes during the meeting. Please bring a towel, blanket or lawn chair to sit on/in and bug repellant. The ALPHONSE MUCHA COLORING BOOK is available from Pomegranate.com for $7.95. MORNING STAR Financials (Jan 1-June 30) 2016 Beginning Balance: $ 6, Inflows: $14, Outflows: $14, Ending Balance: $ 6,879.75

4 MORNING STAR CHILDREN S PROGRAM Child care will not be available during the month of July. For more information, contact Tori Rose or Shannon Reynolds. DID YOU KNOW? John Adams wrote on July 3, 1776: It [Independence Day] ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more. Alphonse Mucha was a talented painter and graphic designer who lived from 1860 to He was born in Moravia (today part of the Czech Republic) and later studied and worked in Austria and France. While he was in Paris, he became famous for his posters and illustrations advertising theatrical and operatic performances and commercial products. Mucha invented an entirely new style that featured beautiful women in flowing garments surrounded by flowers, foliage, and other graceful decorative motifs. His breakthrough came in December 1894 with a commission for a poster for the actress Sarah Bernhardt. His poster design for the play Gismonda became a sensation in Paris and led to an exclusive contract for six consecutive years by the actress. He designed all her posters, as well as her theater decorations and costumes. His art is among the most recognized worldwide. Art Nouveau is the art movement which is now regarded as having been started entirely by the work of Alphonse Mucha before inspiring others to follow a similar style which helped this art movement to expand over time. Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno de los Remedios Crispín Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruíz y Picasso ( ) of Spain was the most prolific of all professional painters in a career which lasted 75 years. It has been estimated that Picasso produced about 13,500 paintings and designs, 100,000 prints and engravings, 34,000 book illustrations and 300 sculptures and ceramics. The first Independence Day fireworks were set off on July 4, Congress led the way for the encouragement of fireworks on the Fourth of July by authorizing a display on July 4, 1777, in Philadelphia. The first fireworks in Boston took place on the same date. MORE PAINTINGS OF THE MORNING STAR

5 1 Pawnee Morning Star Ritual 2 Morning Star -Donna Pomponio 3 Morning Star Nigel Radcliffe 4 Morning Star Farshchian 5 Morning Stars Lains 6 Morning Star - Eugen Bracht 7 Origami Morning Stars - Samusnhi In August we will look at the Morning Star in sculpture and stained glass. Any contributions of information regarding our topic in any of the visual arts will indeed be welcome! Please send your on-topic information to janiceblakely@att.net. If you have copy you would like to place in the newsletter, questions, concerns, comments, ideas or thoughts, please . Thank you.