The Magic, Miracles and Joy of an Artist: Good Friends

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Good Friends

I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.

~ Quote by Frances Farmer

~ Photos by audrey

6 comments:

Deborah said...: That's the truth. Love the turtles. Looks like they are having so much fun. **blows kisses** Deb; July 27, 2010 at 11:58 AM
OmaLindasOldeBaggsandStuftShirts said...: I know this won't come as a shock...I love the pix of the turtles. We have sliders in the Rio Grande and on our hikes we always just sit on the bank and enjoy. Thanks for these, they are lovely. The Olde Bagg turtle lover; July 27, 2010 at 11:59 AM
Anne Huskey-Lockard said...: How true Audrey!
And I love the turtles, swimming along...they are the most fascinating creatures!
Lovely pics and sentiment!
Sorry I've been AWOL--summer just has beaten me up.

XXOO!!
Anne; July 27, 2010 at 7:47 PM
Jan said...: The payment is the love.; July 27, 2010 at 9:37 PM
illustration poetry said...: yes yes i am one busy witch but sweet and kind :D
i once had a turtle but he got bigger and bigger and bigger, and so i decided to let him go :((; July 28, 2010 at 6:58 AM
Rick said...: Hi Audrey
Well said, but so often we are fooled by the facade of friendship. Still the gamble is worth the gain. ~rick; July 29, 2010 at 11:34 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.