Einstein

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(NO filters or Photoshop or ANYthing!)

I never think of the future.

It comes soon enough.

- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Today's Quote

Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life.

- Goethe (1749 - 1832)

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No Spring, nor Summer beauty hath such grace,

As I have seen in one Autumnal face.

- John Donne (1572 - 1631), Elegies

Quote of the Day

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Autumn wins you best by this, its mute

Appeal to sympathy for decay.

- Robert Browning, Paracelsus

Thought

Ring the bells that still can ring

Forget your perfect offering

There is a crack in everything

That's how the light gets in.

- Leonard Cohen

Quote

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Love is my Religion.

I don't condemn, i don't convert.

-Ziggy Marley

A Finish From Yesterday

I completed another painting. 
This one took me over two weeks to do... 
I fell into a dark, deep depression in the middle of making it, and that seriously messed with my "Mojo".

But i finally finished it!  =-)

I'm not totally crazy about it, and i didn't get the "high" from doing this one that i did from the other one, "Inner Balance".  Boyfriend confided a secret to me, and i just sort of lost that good feeling in the middle of trying to paint this one, "Grounding Down & Spreading Up".

But i love the colors in this one!  They sort of bring me a sense of peace and confidence.

Once again, the "vision" in my head is not what came out of my paintbrush, but that's okay this time.  I like it anyway.  =-)

I had wanted for her hair to look like the branches of a tree spreading up into the sky, but it certainly didn't come out that way.  =-)

Oh!  I guess i should inform you that she is doing the Tree Pose from Yoga.
I've been doing Yoga for almost two years now, and i absolutely LOVE it!

Without further ado, i give you:

"Grounding Down & Spreading Up"

She has a "fire" in her belly.

(That's her creativity.)

The Lotus above her head suggests

the unfolding of the soul.

I originally wanted her hair to look like branches of the tree

spreading up into the sky...

But it didn't come out of the paintbrush like that, so instead

she has a crown, suggesting Freedom/Liberty.

I hope you like her.
She's "growing" on me.  =-)

p.s.  I hope you know that sharing my Art is a bit like
allowing you to see a piece of my Soul.

=-)

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The real voyage of discovery

consists not in seeking new landscapes,

but in having new eyes.

- Marcel Proust

September 11th - Ten Years Later...

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We are alive and it's our job to appreciate every single minute of our days.

That is the lesson we should learn from the 2,985 people who died ten years ago.

-The Bitchy Waiter

Quote For Today

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Art is not a handicraft;

it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

- Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910) What is Art?