The Magic, Miracles and Joy of an Artist: Life

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Life

LIFE IS A JOY ~ once in a while it kicks you in the butt and you have to get up and jump right back in.

LOVE IS EVERYWHERE ~ if you open your heart it will hit you smack in the face in many forms and in many people.

HAPPINESS IS A STATE OF MIND ~ if you can see the positive in most things, you will be happy. If you want more ~ go get it.

My experience has been that we make our own happiness.

~ audrey

6 comments:

Diva Kreszl said...: so very true!!! love the photo, it's quite beautiful. Thanks for stopping by to visit and taking the time to leave a comment.; February 20, 2010 at 9:35 AM
Marlene said...: Love the clouds, great shot.; February 20, 2010 at 10:06 AM
Anne Huskey-Lockard said...: Hey Audrey!

How true, although I think life has kicked me a few too many times!! LOL!!! (or maybe that's the other way around.....)
Still marveling at the angel oak, and love the billowy clouds. Makes me have hope that we might find Spring, although the *S* word is happening here today...... >:\

XXOO!!
Anne; February 20, 2010 at 10:20 AM
Ces Adorio said...: What beautiful clouds they are Audrey. Have you heard of the Skywatch Firday group? Bloggers from all over the world post their images of the sky every Thursday/friday on a linked webpage. It is fun and I join sometimes. You only post when you feel like it.

Ah yes, bugs are an important part of life and I even work with some of them!; February 20, 2010 at 12:17 PM
Jan said...: Lovely. Too bad more people don't embrace the wisdom of your words. Especially "HAPPINESS IS A STATE OF MIND"; February 20, 2010 at 1:58 PM
Anonymous said...: I loved the part about state of mind.
Really feel this is so true.
Thank you so much for your comment left about Renee and my dolls,
it is really comforting.

Hugs!

Julie; February 26, 2010 at 5:24 AM

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.