From one of my all-time favorite authors, some final words to ponder when journeying into dreamtime tonight:
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Spending some down-time
I returned home earlier this week from a short but much-needed trip to the ocean. This time it was to Florida’s Gulf Coast, the more tropical and laid back side of the state, in my opinion. Right …
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FRESH OFF THE PAGE
This poem came about during some spring cleaning. I realized as I was sorting through all my stuff just how much of it there was, and how I had not looked into or seen much …
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LAST THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
“All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.” – James McNeill Whistler
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Learning to speak the language of art
Each week I take an oil painting class. I have gone for over a year now and completed four paintings, which I think is a pretty good number. So far I have worked mostly from …
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LAST THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
“Only those who have felt the knife Can understand the wound; Only the jeweler Knows the nature of the jewel.” – Mirabai
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THROUGH MY LENS
This was the view in my old and overgrown apple orchard a few years ago. Yesterday it rained here, then snowed, and lastly hailed. Maybe it was more like May when the photo above was taken, but …
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FRESH OFF THE PAGE
This poem was inspired by this past weekend’s annual ritual of cleaning up after the small army of maple and locust trees in my yard. I like to believe that if I can find beauty in even a small …
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LAST THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
“A person’s life purpose is nothing more than to rediscover, through the detours of art, or love, or passionate work, those one or two images in the presence of which his heart first opened.” – …
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The Madonna and me
Many years ago my father took a trip to northern Italy, his mother’s birthplace. My tiny Italian grandmother had arrived in America on a boat, accompanying her new husband after World War I. They settled …
