May 7 Tip: From CBS Sunday Morning:" Degenerate" Art: How the Nazi's attacked Modernism

From CBS Sunday Morning:" Degenerate" Art: How the Nazi's attacked Modernism

(The May 7 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace)

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/degenerate-art-how-the-nazis-attacked-modernism/

"Degenerate Art" is the term Adolf Hitler and his henchmen used to describe works they simply did not like. The Nazis are long gone. Much of the art they denounced has survived, and is now on view. 

May 6 Tip: Register for "The Spring & The Stream of Compassion: The Wisdom of Thomas Merton & Pema Chodron"

The Spring & The Stream of Compassion: The Wisdom of Thomas Merton & Pema Chodron

(The May 6 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace)

Within each of us is a spring that is filled with desire to share compassion with our self and others. Explore the spirit of the heart, to cause no harm; the will of the heart, to alleviate suffering; and the feeling of the heart, to accept life as it is. Experiences focus on nurturing the spring of your compassion within yourself and sharing your stream of compassion with others.

Dates & Time: Thursdays, May 15, 22, 29, from 6:00pm-7:30pm
Facilitator: Vanessa Hurst 
Location: Brescia Hall,


3105 Lexington Road Cost: $45 for entire series 

For more information:http://www.ursulinesisterslouisville.org/amc/spiritPrograms.php
To register: http://www.ursulinesisterslouisville.org/amc/register.php

May 5 Tip: Savor a prayer of St Teresa of Avila

Savor a prayer of St Teresa of Avila

(The May 5 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace)

Prayer of St. Teresa of Ávila

In Spanish:
Nada te turbe,
nada te espante;
todo se pasa,
Dios no se muda.
La paciencia todo lo alcanza.
Quien a Dios tiene nada le falta
solo Dios basta.

In English:
Let nothing disturb you,
Let nothing distress you;
While all things fade away,
God is unchanging.
Patience overcomes everything.
With God in your heart,
Nothing is lacking.
God alone suffices.

May 4 Tip: Join us tonight for a free Concert for Contemplation with Harry Pickens

Join us tonight for a free Concert for Contemplation with Harry Pickens

(The May 4 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace)

Please join us at 7 pm this Sunday evening, May 4, 2014 at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, 1960 Bardstown Rd. in Louisville, and enjoy a one hour "Concert for Contemplation with Harry Pickens." 

Click here to listen to a concert from 2008:Click 

http://soundcloud.com/harry-pickens/01-concert-for-contemplation

The concert is free, but contributions are always welcome...

A special word of thanks to Fred Whittaker and our friends at St. Francis of Assisi for hosting this concert.

About Harry Pickens
Peacemaker, Educator and World Renowned Jazz Musician

harry pickens
Harry Pickens was born in 1960 in Brunswick, Georgia, a town on the coast between Savannah, Ga., and Jacksonville, Fla. His mother played organ and sang at church. His grandfather, whom he describes as a "comprehensive musician," played tenor saxophone, piano, and violin; sang and conducted choirs in church; and also played the trumpet for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus in 1914 and 1915.
Pickens began playing music when he was 5 or 6, "annoying his family," he recalls, with endless repetitions of the first few songs he learned to play at the piano. Soon, he was accompanying his mother at church, she on organ and he on piano, and his excitement for music grew.

As a young boy, Pickens says, he was a rather "frail and precocious child," prone to illness and shying away from athletic activities and the like. He preferred instead to spend time cultivating his own rich and fertile imagination, often retreating into this inner world. However, as Pickens grew into a young man, he found the life of an extroverted musician more comfortable. He declares that these two periods of growth and the subsequent combination of values he developed-the solitary and introspective within the bright and extroverted-remain the essential elements of his personal creative process.

Pickens' international career as a jazz pianist has taken him to 17 countries throughout Europe, Japan, and the Americas. He has collaborated with many legendary musicians, including Dizzy Gillespie, Freddie Hubbard, James Moody, Milt Jackson (Modern Jazz Quartet), Don Braden (musical director for The Cosby Show), Bob Hurst (bassist for The Tonight Show) and hundreds of others. His performance credits include recordings on the Blue Note label, international radio and television appearances (including Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz), and engagements in top concert and club venues worldwide.
Pickens lived in New Jersey in 1979, moved to Southern California for 12 years, then moved to Louisville in 1999 to be closer to his family. He soon fell in love with Kentucky, finding the people warm, inviting, friendly, and open-minded, and discovering the beauty of the changing seasons in Kentucky's landscape.

Pickens enjoys teaching and working with several charity organizations, including the Kentucky Refugee Ministries program in Louisville. There he leads various musical ensembles in an effort to bring people from different nationalities and backgrounds together through the creative joy of making music.

In 2009, Pickens received the Education Award in the Kentucky Governor's Awards in the Arts program.

May 3 Tip: The allure of monster movies and why "Godzilla" endures

From NPR's Fresh Air: The allure of monster movies and why "Godzilla" endures

(The May 3 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace)

http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=3&islist=true&id=13&d=05-02-2014

There have been hundreds of monster movies over the years, but only a handful of enduringly great movie monsters. Of those, only two were created for the screen: King Kong, the giant ape atop the Empire State Building, and his Japanese heir, Godzilla, the city-flattening sea monster who's a genuinely terrific pop icon. He not only stars in movies — Hollywood is bringing out a new Godzilla on May 16 — but he's even played basketball with Charles Barkley in a commercial for Nike.

May 2 Tip: Watch online, the brand new PBS Frontline Special on prison reform in KY (It debuted on Tuesday!)

Watch online, the new PBS Frontline Special on prison reform in KY (It debuted on Tuesday!)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/locked-up-in-america/#prison-state

With extraordinary access, FRONTLINE takes you to the epicenter of the raging debate about prison reform. "Prison State" follows the lives of four individuals in Kentucky's criminal justice system, as the state tries to interrupt the cycle of mass incarceration.

May 1 Tip: Attend this morning's interfaith National Day of Prayer event

Attend this morning's interfaith National Day of Prayer event

(The May 1 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace)

Interfaith Paths to Peace and Signature Healthcare join together in inviting you to attend a special event featuring prayers for healing taken from many world religions to mark National Day of Prayer at 10:30 am on Thursday, May 1, 2014.

We will gather at

Signature's facility at 12201 Bluegrass Parkway.

The one-hour event is expected to include brief prayers for healing from representatives of:

* Hinduism,
* Protestant Christianity,
* Buddhism,
* the Roman Catholic Church,
* Islam,
* Judaism,
* the Baha'i faith,
* Native American religion,
* Unitarianism and
* the Quakers.

http://ltcrevolution.com/about-shc