Rolla Presbyterian Manor
The Wonder of Spring APRIL 2023
For new resident Carol Jessop, art is a family affair Carol Jessop has loved to draw and color since childhood. She got serious many years later, in the 1990s after she and her husband moved to Rolla. “I started and ran a preschool at the Presbyterian Church,” she recalled. “One of my friends encouraged me to enter Art is Ageless® through Presbyterian Manor, so I did.”
Really live, not merely exist. Live dangerously, Scorning risk!
“It encourages older people to pursue something that they might have loved but didn’t go ahead with,” she said of the Art is Ageless program.
Carol Jessop’s painting “Sunrise on Lake Superior” is featured as one of the postcards in the 2024 Art is Ageless® calendar.
As we move into spring, I so enjoy seeing the wonder of God‘s handiwork. The beauty of new life in nature. Some Rev. Russell of my favorites are the honeysuckle and dogwood. It causes me to think of walking afresh led by God’s loving care. I’m reminded of a beautiful poem written by Howard Thurman, called Give Me The Courage to Live. Give me the courage to live!
Jessop mainly does watercolors but has also done a lot of sketches of places she’s been, as well as a few oil paintings. Carol Jessop’s needlework piece “Gardening” is featured as a birthday card.
By Rev. Richard Russell, Chaplain
As it turns out, art is in the family. Jessop’s son started out as an art instructor and wound up as Dean of the School of Art at East Central Oklahoma University. His son (her grandson) is a chef and has won several awards for his culinary creations (another form of art). He also has experience as a painter. Jessop – continued on page 3
Live honestly, Daring the truthParticularly the truth about myself! Live resilientlyEver changing, ever growing, ever adapting. Enduring the pain of change As though ‘twere the travail of birth. Give me the courage to live, Give me the strength to be free And endure the burden of freedom And the loneliness of those without chains; Let me not be trapped by success, Nor by failure, not pleasure, nor grief,
Chaplain – continued on page 4
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