{"id":89,"date":"2007-01-01T13:10:40","date_gmt":"2007-01-01T21:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/2007\/01\/a-sunday-monday-and-tuesday-in-the-park\/"},"modified":"2007-01-01T13:11:13","modified_gmt":"2007-01-01T21:11:13","slug":"a-sunday-monday-and-tuesday-in-the-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/2007\/01\/a-sunday-monday-and-tuesday-in-the-park\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday in the Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Originally published in LLLI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s LEAVEN, September-October 1995<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Many aspects of the 14th LLLI Conference in Chicago reminded me of Georges Seurat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s painting \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sunday on La Grande Jatte,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d people enjoying a Parisian park. Finished by Seurat in 1886, this well-known example of the pointillism technique hangs in The Art Institute of Chicago. Our conference was also a canvas of dots and dashes of color. From the fruit compote at the first luncheon to Faye Young\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wild hats at the banquet finale, Seurat himself would have enjoyed the rich palette:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2    Mothers in bright flowered dresses wearing their babies in a rainbow of sling<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2    Breastfed babies\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 faces in browns, creams, pinks, yellows, and blacks<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2    Bags, suitcases, and totes in a variety of sizes and colors at the registration counter<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2    Ribbons of blue, red, green, pink, orange, yellow, purple, brown, and white hanging from conference nametags<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2    Book jackets of every design and hue in the Conference Bookstore<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2    The greens of Grant Park and the blues of Lake Michigan from hotel room windows<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2    Costumes, bandannas, passport stamps, and flags at the World Tour<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2    Marble floors and fresh flower arrangements in the halls and foyers<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2    Children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s identifying wrist bands in neon green and orange<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2    Sparkling crystal chandeliers and lavender chairs in banquet rooms<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2    Lovely dolls depicting mothers around the world decorating the offices of ouw new headquarters<\/p>\n<p>Up close the splashes of color sometimes seemed diverse and unrelated. But standing back from the canvas, patters and solid forms emerged\u00e2\u20ac\u201djust as they do in Seurat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s masterpiece. The dots and dashes become mothers, babies, Leaders, administrators, Founders, fathers, toddlers, and Board members. Those optical mixtures became a tapestry of color and light, revealing the cohesive vision of an organization focused on nurturing the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in LLLI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s LEAVEN, September-October 1995 Many aspects of the 14th LLLI Conference in Chicago reminded me of Georges Seurat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s painting \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sunday on La Grande Jatte,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d people enjoying a Parisian park. Finished by Seurat in 1886, this well-known example of the pointillism technique hangs in The Art Institute of Chicago. Our conference was also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-la-leche-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}