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

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

1999. 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

MORNING STAR

Financials (Jan 1-June 30) 2016 Beginning Balance: $ 6,765.58 Inflows: $14,446.05 Outflows: $14,331.88 Ending Balance: $ 6,879.75

July 24 - Dave Jordan

Choices

Dave Jordan was released from prison on June 9, 2016. 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!

Mucha’s Summer SISTERS IN SPIRIT

Tuesday, July 12th

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 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

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 1939. 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. http://web.pinknet.cz/~malin/mucha.html

Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno de los Remedios Crispín Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruíz y Picasso (1881-

1973) 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, 1777. 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

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 email. Thank you.