It is the last wonderful
gift of the friend of the Bridegroom to his disciples.
Anne Truitt, Spume, 1972, acrylic on wood, National Gallery of Art, Washington,
Gift of friends of Anne Truitt, 1973.12.1
National Gallery of Art, Washington,
Gift of friends of Anne Truitt
Alison Saar, Tippy Toes, 2007; Wood and cast bronze, 59 x 23 x 23 in.; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh,
Gift of the Friends of African and African American Art, 2008.2 © Alison Saar
Collection of Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (
Gift of the Friends of the Whitney), 1959
Kenneth Noland: Song, 1958; acrylic on canvas; 65» x 65»; lent by the Whitney Museum of American Art;
gift of the Friends of the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Larry Sultan, Thanksgiving Turkey / Newspaper, 1985 — 1992, two chromogenic prints and two screen printed plexiglass panels, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Corcoran Collection (
Gift of FRIENDS of the Corcoran Gallery of Art) 2015.19.4484
Acrylic on paper on panel, 43-1/2 x 80 x 1-7/8 The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.,
Gift of the Friends of the Corcoran Gallery of Art
Gift of the Friends of the Whitney.
The Baltimore Museum of Art: Dr. Max Stern Trust Fund;
gift of the Friends of Modern and Contemporary Art; Alice and Franklin Cooley Fund; and purchased as the gift of an Anonymous Donor, BMA 2015.85.
Not exact matches
According to the Wells Fargo / Gallup study, women business owners said their top three sources
of initial funding for their business are cash or savings (85 percent), personal credit cards (37 percent) and financial
gifts or support from family or
friends (29 percent).
In 2016, a reported 19 percent
of people bought Valentine's Day
gifts for their furry
friends for a total
of $ 681 million.
While some folks are,
of course, naturally
gifted in this area, if you're not an inherently smooth operator you can teach yourself behaviors and mental tricks that will help you win
friends, influence people, and make a strong impression when you walk in a room.
When people search for «Valentine's Day
Gifts For...» on Bing.com, 22 percent
of people fill in «husband,» 20 percent
of people type «
friend» and 17 percent «boyfriend.»
There's also the new
gift service, which looks at the Facebook profiles
of your
friends and suggests items they might like, and something called Taste Test, which asks you to rate a smattering
of random items and then suggests things to buy.
«If we were good
friends and I gave you cash — not because
of a contract but because
of our close friendship — then that's a
gift,» said Bruce Steiner, who is
of counsel at Kleinberg Kaplan Wolff & Cohen in New York.
Finally, it included a
gift certificate, along with an invitation to a VIP tour
of one
of the chain's stores in order to discuss its offerings with a knowledgeable member
of their staff, and a promise to revisit the product offerings as per my
friend's original suggestion.
«Ultimately they want to make sure that if their
friends and family want to give them a
gift — and
of course, they do — that it's something useful.»
If you're not sure what your leadership
gift is, begin by asking colleagues,
friends and family members for their opinions
of what you do best.
«A lot
of folks mailed them as
gifts to
friends, family and co-workers,» D'Aquanni says.
Other forms
of «free» money include
gifts from relatives, free office space from former employers, and free services from
friends or business associates.
She's still out
of work, so nine
friends and I each sent her $ 20 for a grocery
gift card.
The GOP has a great store that's worth a look if you're in search
of a
gift for your right - leaning
friends and family members.
When Steve Jobs passed away,
friends and family attending his funeral received a small
gift from the late tech genius: Autobiography
of a Yogi, a book focused on the «ancient science
of Yoga and its time - honored tradition
of meditation.»
Whether it's buying
gifts for
friends, family and coworkers, or having a list
of projects that need to be wrapped up before the New Year, a checklist makes everyone more productive.
Sears, Roebuck and Co. may have been able to infer when you bought a
gift from their catalog for a
friend who lived in another town, but Amazon has more reason (and more ability) to use that information to build a profile
of your
friend's interests.
A
friend of mine
gifted me his formula for pre-launching offers.
The holidays are busy enough, buy yourself this early holiday
gift and enjoy the perks
of your business run smoother and spend more time with your family,
friends, or alone with some peace & quiet.
Rather than buying piles
of a tat and unwanted
gifts to put under the tree, I will give family and
friends a crowd investment.
If you're not comfortable with
gifting money to your
friend or family member, you may also want to consider pointing in them in the direction
of some unconventional financing options where they can get a loan — even if they have poor credit.
The holidays are already an emotional time for shoppers, with little kids tugging at parents to buy them things, with pressure to get the perfect
gifts for new family members,
friends and business associates, and with a perceived lack
of time to get it all done perfectly.
An Understanding
of Customer Needs / Interests: When you're trying to buy the perfect
gift for your mother, spouse, or
friend, you can easily visualize them in your head as you shop.
This week marks the official kickoff to the holiday shopping season, meaning millions
of Americans will begin that month - long quest to find the perfect
gifts for family and
friends.
Chances are, your audience would want cool wine accessories and
gifts for their family and
friends, and the wine accessory company would want an audience
of wine lovers to buy more accessories.
-LSB-...] There are tons
of ways to save money on
gifts for your
friends, loved ones, or whoever else you give Valentine's Day
gifts to.
If you want to help your
friend out and can afford to do so, go ahead, but think
of it as a
gift.
My objections would have more to do with the lengths some might go to cut their taxes under such a system; selling stocks in droves right before tax season, giving
gifts out to family and
friends (perhaps with the intent to take them back after the tax man leaves), and
of course, owning more assets outside
of America.
Most
of the home loan programs available in California today allow
gift money from third - party sources, such as family members or close
friends.
Major Val Mylechreest for The Salvation Army, which commissioned the study, said: «Taking a step back from buys and wrapping
gifts means we can really appreciate the time we have with family and
friends at this time
of year.
The shift in our understanding
of sex from a sacramental and life - changing encounter to the thing you do with your
friends when you're bored has made all
of our relationships shallower and made each
of us less capable
of the profound
gift of self on which marriage is founded.
You've just finished a decent main course, and are about to consider the dessert menu when one
of your
friends gets up, taps their glass with a spoon, and announces that they have bought desserts for everyone as a
gift.
I believe that its important to see inner wisdom and the council
of friends and wise and knowledgeable people... but God, if he / she exists created us — right... oh yes w / brains... we should be honoring that by using them... I can imagine if God exists every day he is saying to himself / herself «why do people keep asking me for things I have not control over, or really could care less about (people are asking for a new shinny house to replace their perfectly fine house while millions are homeless around the world, hungry, sick, etc.)... why are they not using the
gifts and skills they have».
Partnering with organizations like WorldReach (who allows you to sponsor children) and Charity: Water (who lets you tell your
friends to donate instead
of getting you a birthday present every year) or finding a cause like ending human trafficking, supporting education or assisting the homeless can represent more than just one - time
gifts or temporary passions.
Soul -
friends got regular phone calls, notes
of encouragement, hilarious greeting cards, a truly listening ear, earnest prayers, pick - me - up stories and
gifts of grace.
Mountaintop experiences are
gifts, whole and complete in themselves: a marriage where the love and delight stay kindled through the years, children,
friends old or new, a job that we enjoy doing and that contributes to the welfare
of others, good retirement years.
It also includes pages
of perforated
gift tags in the back to include with a meal dropped off for an ailing
friend or an unexpected treat for a friendly neighbor — so you get to #beTheGIFT — and be part
of changing the world — and your heart — right where you are.
Little by little, though the irresistible development
of those yearnings you implanted in me as a child, through the influence
of gifted friends who entered my life at certain moments to bring light and strength to my mind, and through the awakenings
of spirit I owe to the successive initiations, gentle and terrible, which you caused me to undergo: through all these I have been brought to the point where I can no longer see anything, nor any longer breathe, outside that milieu in which all is made one.
I am more grateful than I have ever been for you, for my family, for Dan, for
friends, for kind words, and for the
gift of life.
I will make the most
of the drive, have a meal there and $ 100 dollar
gift cards for my
friends.
Perhaps our oldest references to how
gifts are not just about relationships, but also carry a sublimated logic
of exchange comes in Book VI
of the Iliad, when Homer tells us about a
gift exchange between two hereditary hospitality
friends: