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Two tours today, 2nd graders at 10:00 am and a group of seniors from Minnetonka at 1:30.\u00a0 I took the kids through a mysteries of the ancient world tour.\u00a0 I love 2nd graders.\u00a0 They’re eager, uncensored, fun and often bright.\u00a0 We learned how sculptures lose things that stick out, why the chinese used copper and tin for weapons, that folks have been fighting in Iraq for a really long time and that an artist 20,000 years ago made a small stone sculpture we could recognize today.<\/p>\n
With the seniors we toured Titian, going over, once again, the splendid century, filled with wealth and spices and great artists.\u00a0 We wandered among these great stories, the Christ child, the Three Kings, the bella donna’s, the courtesan count, the transformation of actaeon into a stag and callisto into a bear.\u00a0 The museum literally brings the world to us and allows those of who guide there to travel over it ever time we visit.\u00a0 Today, for example, we went to China, Greece, Iraq, France, Mexico and Venice.\u00a0 Plus Mexico and, by extension, Italy, Israel and Cyprus.\u00a0 Not bad for a day’s work.<\/p>\n
This work is such a gift, a license to steal glances at objects made by some of the world’s great geniuses:\u00a0 Goya, Rembrandt, Titian, El Greco, Bassano, Renoir, Gaugin, Monet, Van Gogh, Rodin.\u00a0 The list goes on.\u00a0 I visit Lucretia now as an ancestor who died tragically.\u00a0 Germanicus, that brave general dying betrayed.\u00a0 The sick Goya, nurtured by his doctor.\u00a0 The Sufi crowd working themselves into ecstasy in Delacroix’s painting.\u00a0 That wonderful brook by Thomas Moran.\u00a0 Calypso mourning for her lost Ulysses.\u00a0 So many, so wonderful.\u00a0 Sometimes it takes my breath right away.<\/p>\n
Is it spiritual?\u00a0 If, as I am beginning to take it, the spiritual moments are those moments that nurture our Self, that best and richest person we could be, want to be, then, yes, every visit to the museum affords a chance for the Self to grow further into its most creative and full expression, goaded on by others who tapped into the depths of their own Self and who gave us a choice to join them on their journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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