{"id":9409,"date":"2014-06-04T10:39:41","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T17:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/?p=9409"},"modified":"2015-04-21T21:18:40","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T04:18:40","slug":"meantime-beautify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/2014\/06\/04\/meantime-beautify\/","title":{"rendered":"Meantime, Beautify"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have no new news on Vernon. He&#8217;s still in a coma, undergoing various bone operations, now also on dialysis for his kidneys, and they&#8217;re watching the onset of pneumonia. For ongoing updates and a way to contribute, go to the website dedicated for this, <a href=\"http:\/\/sansoxygen.com\/\">here<\/a>. I will also update at moments.<\/p>\n<p>Also, we have not finished the series featuring my parents&#8217; history and stories. We&#8217;ll get back to that shortly, too.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Meantime, here&#8217;s a brief meditation for us artists (and by that I&#8217;m including just about everybody). It comes from quick notes jotted in my sketch book, inspired by a segment from Psalms:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><em>The highest heavens belong to the Lord,<\/em><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> <strong><em> But the earth he has given to man.*<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Ok then (says I), Get to work.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> <em> What is your role?\u00a0<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>To beautify?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Ok then . . .\u00a0<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Get your orders:\u00a0<\/em><em>Make earth like heaven.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><em style=\"color: #800000;\">(That&#8217;s beautiful.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Pick up where Ray Frieze left off, or Robert Heindel, or S. C. Yuan.**<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Give up your small ambitions . . .<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Whatever things be noble, whatever things be lovely, whatever things be admirable . . . p<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>roduce these things.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Begin again every morning.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Ok Lord . . . reporting for duty.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">_______<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">* \u00a0 Psalm 115:16<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> ** All recent painters who have died, no work of their kind to ever be made again.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consider the lilies of the field. They need not be beautiful to produce their oxygen, but God made them so. Go and do likewise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9409"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10616,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9409\/revisions\/10616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}