The Institute of Philosophy in the Arts, Architecture and Humanities
Salon on the Spiritually Creative Life

[Photography by Nathaniel Taylor]

THE SALON ON THE SPIRITUALLY CREATIVE LIFE

Our 30th Year Continues
... still on Zoom!

Please join Carol Soucek King virtually on
Sunday, June 14, 2026
Via Zoom
To discuss one of God's essential aspects
illuminated throughout her book
Under the Bridges at Arroyo del Rey

Harmony

Main Presentation

Edward R. Bosley
&
Denise Maior-Barron

"Planting Harmony in Changing
Times for House Museums"

Introduced by Alexandra Rasic (she/her)
James N. Gamble Executive Director
The Gamble House Conservancy

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Morning's Agenda
Speakers' Presentation and Bio
Zoom Info
Lyrics & Poems
2026 Salon Dates/Themes

9:30 am Pacific Standard Time
Zoom Room Arrivals and
Himalayan Singing Bowls by Healing Arts Practitioner
Janet Martorello
 

10 am until noon – Program

Meditation
with
Nan Rae
Artist/Teacher/Author

Nan Rae’s latest published book – now available on Amazon
INSPIRED THOUGHTS ON LOVE!
Published by Laughing Elephant Books
Now available on Amazon
Personalized copies may be ordered at NanRaeStudio.com

Opening Song
by
Dean LeGrand Carlston, DDS Composer/Singer/Instrumentalist

"Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again"
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Lyrics by Charles Hart, Additional Lyrics by Richard Stilgoe,
Some Lyrical Changes by Dean Carlston

Dean welcomes us to listen to and download his music at no charge by accessing his personal website: deancarlston.com

Salute to June Birthdays,
Special Congratulations, & Prayers
with
Graham Lance Richardson
Retired Westside Realtor after 35 years.
Licensed Plumber & Gas Fitter.
Certified Welder to 100%,
and Frequent Presenter at The Salon.

Main Presentation:

Edward R. Bosley
&
Denise Maior-Barron

"Planting Harmony in Changing
Times for House Museums"

Introduced by Alexandra Rasic (she/her)
James N. Gamble Executive Director
The Gamble House Conservancy

Above: Ted and Denise at the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest (December 2024)

Above: “Peace and Harmony” rose at The Huntington Library,
Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California. (Photography by Edward R. Bosley, May 2023)

Drawing from research and scholarship of their forthcoming edited publication Gardens and Parks of Historic House Museums: Grounds for Authenticity, Sustainability, and Reconciliation (University of Virginia Press, December 2026), editor-authors Denise Maior-Barron and Edward R. Bosley highlight the importance of Harmony in achieving authentic, sustainable and above all, reconciliatory ways of interpretation at house museums across the globe. Faced with the winds of change, in order to continue to tell the complex stories of humanity’s shared past, the owners and custodians of these institutions can seize the moment by choosing creative and inspirational models. Offering a glimpse into the valuable collection of examples from around the world, while focusing on their own analyses of the Gamble House (Pasadena) and the Palace and Botanic Garden of Balcic (Bulgaria), the presenters hope to bring a meaningful contribution to the ever-relevant human search for spiritual Harmony.

Edward R. Bosley is an architectural historian with a BA in Art History from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In 1992 he was appointed Director of The Gamble House, a United States Department of the Interior National Historic Landmark in Pasadena, California, from which he retired in 2021. In addition to his house museum management and conservation responsibilities, he has taught historic-site stewardship at the graduate level at both Claremont Graduate University and the University of Southern California School of Architecture. His many publications include three titles in the Architecture in Detail series for Phaidon Press Ltd, as well as the monograph Greene & Greene, also for Phaidon Press. Mr. Bosley has organized, curated or co-curated numerous exhibitions, including a permanent exhibition of Greene and Greene decorative arts at The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California. In 2008–09 he was co-curator of a major travelling exhibition of their work at The Huntington, the Smithsonian Institution’s Renwick Gallery in Washington DC, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In 2021 he was inducted as an Honorary Member of the American Institute of Architects.

Denise Maior-Barron holds a BA in Sociology from the University of Bucharest (Romania) and an MA in European Heritage from University of Plymouth (UK). She received her PhD from Plymouth University in collaboration with the Château de Versailles (France) following consecutive internships at the UNESCO Heritage site. Her doctoral research on heritage interpretation and visitor perceptions at the Petit Trianon was published in 2018 by Routledge in their Heritage Studies Series.

[ Carol’s note: Marie Antoinette at Petit Trianon: Heritage Interpretation and Visitor Perceptions, Denise Maior-Barron, is available from Routledge:
http://www.routledge.com/9781138565562]

As a reader at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (San Marino, California), Dr. Maior-Barron conducted postdoctoral research focused on landscape history and theory. Having previously taught at Plymouth University for the Schools of Architecture and Tourism, in 2020 she became Adjunct Professor at Claremont Graduate University (USA), co-teaching with Edward R. Bosley a postgraduate course on conservation and interpretation of historic house museums with theory pertaining to heritage and tourism studies. Dr. Maior-Barron is currently preparing the course’s material for publication, via several research projects, including the first special issue on house museums with Museum History Journal (Taylor & Francis).

Music Interlude
by
Douglas Decker
Recording Engineer/Musician/Composer
"Get Together"
Composed by Chet Powers

Poetry Reading
with
Patricia Ferber
Sculptor/Painter/Educator/Curator/Poet
"Harmony"
[two poems, June 2026 and September 2023]

Followed by Discussion

Opening the Discussion will be
Nino Wong, designer/business leader/Volunteer
Chairman of the Chinese Garden Docents,
Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens.

Jan Furey Muntz, Architect, LEED AP, on-camera historian in the five Myron Hunt documentaries on You Tube by cinematographer Curtis McElhinney. Curator and author for six architectural exhibits at Caltech, The Huntington, Scripps and Pomona Colleges, Barnsdall, and the Armory. Computer Systems Analyst for GE Missile and Space Division/ NASA.

Alexander Moseley: Studio artist working primarily in wood. A Founding Board Member of Flintridge Center and Flintridge Foundation for 40 years, where he contributed design, graphics and database support as a volunteer to Flintridge Foundation and then Flintridge Center for 30 years. Provided research for a book on the architecture of California architects Buff, Straub and Hensman published by the University of Southern California. Collects Native American art and believes deeply in the importance of art to society.

Norton Wisdom [unseen on zoom screen]: performance artist – will be painting his reaction to the day’s theme – HARMONY - throughout the Salon and will be shared in the emailed “Salon Star Thank You” a day or two later.

All are invited to continue sharing thoughts on
Harmony.

until noontime

Finale
by
Susie Katharine Shaw
Actress/Vocalist
"One God"
Directed by Douglas Decker,
By Erwin Drake and Jim Shirl 1954

To conclude Susie will lead us in Richard King's favorite
Native American Prayer

Love Faith and Joy - Carol Soucek King, MFA, PhD, Founder
Please respond if attending:
kingcarol@aol.com or 626/449-1238

For the time being, the Salon will continue to meet on Zoom. When appropriate, we will meet in person once again at Arroyo del Rey.

For access to the Salon on Zoom:

This meeting is being hosted by Zoom.
There is no charge to use this service.

Before the Salon on Sunday:
You will need to either go to the Zoom website, www.zoom.us, and register for a free account to access this meeting through your web browser or download and install the Zoom application on your device.

If you download the application to your device, you do NOT need to register for a free account. To download the Zoom application, click on this link... https://zoom.us/download

For any questions or assistance,
email Curtis McElhinney at Curtis@curtisvision.com

Three Songs, Two Poems

"Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again"
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Lyrics by Charles Hart, Additional Lyrics by Richard Stilgoe,
Some Lyrical Changes by Dean Carlston

You were once my one companion
You were all that mattered
You were once my friend and lover
Now my world is shattered
Wishing you were somehow here again
Wishing you were somehow near
Sometimes it seems, if I just dreamed
Somehow you would be here.
Wishing I could hear your voice again
Knowing that I never would
Dreaming of you won’t help us to do
All that we dreamed we could
Three long years I’ve knelt in silence
Held your memory near me
Three long years of murmured sorrows
Willing you to hear me
Too many years fighting back the tears
Why can’t the past just die?
Wishing you were somehow here again
Knowing we must say goodbye
Try to forgive, teach me to live
Give me the strength to try
No more memories, no more silent tears
No more gazing across the wasted years
Help me to say goodbye, help me to say goodbye.

"Get Together"
Composed by Chet Powers

Love is but a song we sing
Fear's the way we die
You can make the mountains ring
Or make the angels cry
Though the bird is on the wing
And you may not know why

Come on, people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now

Some may come and some may go
He will surely pass
When the one that left us here
Returns for us at last
We are but a moment's sunlight
Fading in the grass

Come on, people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now

If you hear the song I sing
You will understand, listen
You hold the key to love and fear
All in your trembling hand
Just one key unlocks them both
It's there at your command

Come on, people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now

Come on, people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now

Right now
Right now

"One God"
By Erwin Drake and Jim Shirl 1954

Millions of stars placed in the sky by one God.
Millions of men lift up their eyes to one God.
So many children calling to Him by many a different name.
One Father loving each the same.

Many the ways all of us pray to one God.
Many the paths winding their way to one God.
Walk with me brother, there were no strangers
after His work was done.
For your God and my God are one.

"Harmony"
by Patricia Ferber, June 2026

A little bird came to me and whispered in my ear,
“I love you so, now I must go and fulfill my destiny.”

A butterfly came to me and whispered in my ear,
“I love you so, now I must go and see what I must see,
in fulfilling my destiny.”

Following God's sovereign plan,
balance and trust go hand in hand.
Taking us on the unknown roads,
knowing all that is meant to be, will be.

Filling our hearts with peace and love,
is living one’s life in harmony.

A little bird came to me and whispered in my ear,
“I love you so, now I must go and fulfill my destiny.”

A butterfly came to me and whispered in my ear,
“I love you so, now I must go and see what I must see,
in fulfilling my destiny.”

Following God's sovereign plan,
balance and trust go hand in hand.
Taking us on the unknown roads,
knowing all that is meant to be, will be.

Filling our hearts with peace and love,
is living one’s life in harmony.

"Harmony"
Patricia Ferber, September 2023

Harmony is melodious in many keys,
such as A, B, C, or Do, Re, Mi.
It can be found in dance or in the words of a song,
Striving for a rhythm that unlocks the doors,
to harmony.

It can be obtained through music, writing, meditation,
or exercise at the gym.
It is learning to balance what is right or wrong,

Harmony can become elusive at times
when the forces of life move you along.
Losing direction on an unfamiliar road,
like the surfer riding a wave, aiming for shore.

Move to the left, move to the right,
center your mind, as the clay on the potter’s wheel
that has existed through time.
Creating a vessel that will hold all your needs,
resuming your journey once more in peace.

All 2026 Salon dates and themes

STABILITY
Sunday, January 11, 2026

GROWTH
Sunday, February 8, 2026

POSSIBILITY
Sunday, March 8, 2026

FAITH
Sunday, April 12, 2026

GRATITUDE
Sunday, May 10, 2026

HARMONY
Sunday, June 14, 2026

UNDERSTANDING
Sunday, July 12, 2026

KINDNESS
Sunday, August 9, 2026

HUMOR
Sunday, September 13, 2026

LOVE
Sunday, October 11, 2026

HEALING
Sunday, November 8, 2026

SPIRITUALITY
Sunday, December 13, 2026

Please let us know which salons you can attend by replying to KingCarol@aol.com or (626) 449-1238.

With all loving thoughts and hoping to see you soon!

Carol Soucek King, M.F.A., Ph. D.
Email: KingCarol@aol.com  
 

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