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The World’s Most Beautiful Things

Have you ever had the experience of being virtually “knocked off your feet” by an endless onslaught of wonders, all gathered together surprisingly and impossibly in one single condensed, rich, atmospheric and utterly beguiling place?

That was the experience I had when I recently satisfied a long-time yearning and visited New York’s J.P. Morgan Library and Museum (Madison Ave. at 36th Street).  I’ve always held a fascination with J.P. Morgan, a man larger than life and one of the nation’s great financiers at the end of the 19th century.  Morgan, toward the end of his life, set out to build America’s leading collection of “the most beautiful things in the world.”  Not, say his admirers, as a tribute to himself; but rather to provide a range of the most beautiful cultural objects from around the world to America, the assembled for viewing by the public, out of his belief that Americans were being deprived of sufficient access to this type of culture in the day to day hustle and bustle of settling the country.

The range of articles he collected, both from ancient times, Renaissance Europe, and from American arts and history, is truly-awe inspiring.  Morgan’s original mansion including his sitting room and personal library, were recently renovated and you can see such rarities as examples of the Gutenberg bible, handwritten, signed music scores by Beethoven and Mozart, letters and manuscripts by Dickens, Twain, Thoreau, Poe, and Ralph Waldo Emerson; ancient and medieval illuminated manuscripts and objects of art, ornate tapestries, and period furniture.  Perhaps most startling is how accessible everything is–you can look closely at everything from the Gutenberg Bible to a 12th Century gilded artifact said to contain an original remnant of the Cross. 

Just as Morgan set out to create a collection of the world’s most beautiful things, we at the Boomers Retirement Network have set out to collect the world’s most beautiful and well-crafted solutions for our Baby Boomer members to put to use in creating your most satisfying life going forward.  You’ll see a number of these solutions featured in this issue of “The Beat Goes On.”  Each has been hand-picked to help you realize all your future dreams that you possibly can.  So don’t miss out on any of them! 

Committed to your success,
Richard Roll

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