The Magic, Miracles and Joy of an Artist

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

IF THE SIGHT OF THE BLUE SKIES FILLS YOU WITH JOY, IF A BLADE OF GRASS SPRINGING UP IN THE FIELDS HAS POWER TO MOVE YOU, IF THE SIMPLE THINGS OF NATURE HAVE A MESSAGE THAT YOU UNDERSTAND, REJOICE, FOR YOUR SOUL IS ALIVE.

~Eleonora Duse

6 comments:

Diva Kreszl said...: until I started visiting blogland and reading all the lovely posts out there I thought I was the only one that could get lost in the smallest of details, caught up in the beauty of nature and be moved to tears by the human condition. It's very reassuring to know there are so many of us out there!; January 5, 2010 at 6:14 PM
Anne Huskey-Lockard said...: Even though there are days that I wonder....YES....my soul IS very alive!!!
Love the photo! :)

XXOO!!
Anne; January 5, 2010 at 7:08 PM
OmaLindasOldeBaggsandStuftShirts said...: What lovely thought and photo. Don't you just love it when life moves you? Whether it be by tears or laughter. Ain't it grand??????
Uh-oh....the word is ovelento. I had one of those at an Italian restaurant and it gave me heartburn but it was gorgeous all purple and red and green. Euwww. Nevermind.; January 5, 2010 at 7:12 PM
OmaLindasOldeBaggsandStuftShirts said...: Okay....asked SM what an ovelento is to see if he could play. I have to say not bad for an old guy. His definition....oval lent you get from the dryer.; January 5, 2010 at 7:14 PM
Jan said...: My soul is very joyful and alive but it never hurts to have this sort of reminder. Beautiful photo.

Also enjoyed the Olde Baggs oval lint comment;-); January 5, 2010 at 7:46 PM
Marlene said...: Lovely thought Audrey, always an uplift to read your blog.

my word ringis - that which is left around the tub when you use bath oil...; January 6, 2010 at 11:32 PM

For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come!

I AM A "SEARCHER"

"I am one of the searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore life, hoping to uncover its ultimate secret. We continue to explore ourselves, hoping to understand. We like to walk along the beach, we are drawn by the ocean, taken by its power, its unceasing motion, its mystery and unspeakable beauty. We like forests and mountains, deserts and hidden rivers, and the lonely cities as well. Our sadness is as much a part of our lives as is our laughter. To share our sadness with one we love is perhaps as great a joy as we can know - unless it be to share our laughter. We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we love and want to be loved. We want to live in a relationship that will not impede our wandering, nor prevent our search, nor lock us in prison walls; that will take us for what little we have to give. We do not want to prove ourselves to another or compete for love.

For wanderers, dreamers, and lovers, for lonely men and women who dare to ask of life everything good and beautiful. It is for those who are too gentle to live among wolves."

~ James Kavanaugh

I am THE LOVERS Tarot Card

Motive, power, and action, arising from Inspiration and Impulse. THE LOVERS represents intuition and inspiration. Very often a choice needs to be made. Originally, this card was just called LOVE. And that's acually more apt than "LOVERS." Love follows in this sequence of growth and maturity. And, coming after the Emperor, who is about control, it is a radical change in perspective. LOVE is a force that makes you choose and decide for reasons you often can't understand; it makes you surrender control to a higher power. And that is what this card is all about. Finding something or someone who is so much a part of yourself, so perfectly attuned to you and you to them, that you cannot, dare not resist. This card indicates that you have or will come across a person, a career, challenge, or thing that you will fall in love with. You will know instinctively that you must have this, even if it means diverging from your chosen path. No matter the difficulties, without it you will never be complete.