Gold

Gold

 

Luke 17:3

“Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.”

 

Judg.1:16
"And the children of the Kenite, Moses' father in law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which lieth in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt among the people."

SKILL

"We know more about what the seventeenth-century Dutch looked like than we do about any other society, except perhaps the first-century Romans. Each individual wanted posterity to know exactly what he was like, even if he was a member of a corporate group.

And the man who tells us all this most vividly was the Haarlem painter, Frans Hals. He is the supreme extrovert. I used to find his works [137] (all except the last) revoltingly cheerful and horribly skilful. Now I love their unthinking conviviality, and VALUE SKILL more highly than I did. His sitters don't look like representatives of a new philosophy, but out of the all too numerous group-portraits of early seventeenth-century Holland, some- thing does emerge which has a bearing on civilisation : these are individuals who are prepared to join in a corporate effort for the public good."~~~Kenneth Clark: CIVILISATION: C.8 The Light of Experience

 "It's amazing...but the wanderers seem to have lost the impulse  to make durable habitations. What did they have? The answer comes out in the poems: gold. Whenever an Anglo-Saxon poet wants to put into words his ideal of a good society he speaks of gold.

There once many a man

Mood-glad, gold bright, of gleams garnished

Flushed with wine-pride, flashing war-gear,

Gazed on wrought gemstones, on gold, onsilver,

On wealth held and hoarded, on light-filled amber. 

Charlemagne

DAVID WEBB Carved Jade & Ruby Necklace

Museo de Oro Precolombino, San Jose, Costa Rica

Charlemagne (742 – 814), also known as Charles the Great - ruler of the Frankish kingdom and protagonist of the #Carolingian 'Renaissance' (portrait in a reliquary bust - #Aachen Cathedral, Germany)

Jacó, Pacífico Central, Costa Rica

Chess: "Gold"