“Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
– St. Francis of Assisi
– St. Francis of Assisi
Copyright Beth Parker Art 2013
This is a small portion of the commission I am working on now for Jackie & Carl, from the Kansas City show. Their house is beautiful! So much of it is hidden by trees and I’m diligently pruning the leaves on some of the trees, so that you can see the house. Yesterday morning, I was working in their yard. I was putting some of the plants back in the flowerbed that had died, and sprucing up some to give them blooms. All with a pencil. No dirt under my fingernails. Oh, and I also rehung the chair swing that had broken. It’s all fixed now.
At my house, I planted a cactus a friend gave us. That’s about the only plant I don’t kill.
About St. Francis of Assisi
St.
Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals and ecology in
Catholicism, was born Giovanni Francesco di Bernardone into a wealthy
Italian merchant family in 1181. As a youth, he was known for carousing.
After a series of illnesses, one of which occurred while a prisoner of
war, he had a spiritual awakening. God came to him in a vision and told
him to build up his crumbling church. Taking the dream literally, he
began rebuilding a local chapel. He took a vow of poverty and began
traveling, preaching, and working to help the sick and the poor. A group
formed around him, becoming the Franciscan order. He died in 1226.
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