Lost in time.THE WAY INTO BLESSED FREEDOM may be to live without too great a dependence on the passage of time, on the inexorable approach of tomorrow and mortality. The sense of joy in Renoir's Children on the Seashore seems to flow from the timelessness of their experience. It is not a real world, with its softly colored pastel background made up of a blur of bathers and with the children themselves half melted into their context of color not of the white race; - commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed. See also: Color . They are responsive only to the immediacy of their sun-filled leisure. We feel that this visit to the beach will be recalled, in the future, as joy, though perhaps not yet fully realized as such. SISTER WENDY BECKETT of Norfolk, England, well-known for her BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. and PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, television art series and her popular art books. Reprinted with permission from: Sister Wendy's Book of Meditations (DK Publishing, 1998; 888-342-5357). Painting: Children on the Seashore, Guernsey, by Auguste Renoir (1883, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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