The Magic, Miracles and Joy of an Artist: THINKING OUT LOUD

Sunday, September 6, 2020

THINKING OUT LOUD

Thinking Out Loud

I've noticed quite a bit of talk lately about people leaving Facebook and trying new social media platforms. Most of the reasoning is because of political rantings, negativity, and hatred.

I use Facebook as a contact. I stay in touch with friends ~ grade school, high school, college classmates ~ family, and artist friends. I love sharing on Facebook. I love the photos, quotes, art works in progress, new techniques, and receiving notes and comments from friends.

I stay clear of politics. Unfortunately, people are not able to separate their friendships from their beliefs. Everyone has the right to believe what they want, worship who they want, and vote for who they want, without being unfriended, hated, slammed. I find it juvenile and uncalled for.

I feel a kinship with all of my former classmates. I could meet up with any one of them and feel comfortable and happy to share a coffee and some talk. I spent wonderful formative years with many of them ~ memories are endless. Likewise, with others. I have made some beautiful friendships with fellow artists through Facebook. I hope to meet some of these fun and magical friends one day.

If Facebook were to close down, or my friends would all leave Facebook, my heart would break. Many of us are getting older and this is our means of staying in touch. It brings a smile to my face daily, and lifts my heart on many occasions.

It is difficult to understand why those who hate the politics, the rants, the ugliness, etc., don't just scroll past it. I fear people look for discourse.

I hope that Facebook is around for many years to come and I hope people will find it in their heart to be kind to one another and stop with the anger and hatred. In the end, it will get you nowhere. It uses a lot of energy that could be used for the better good. Please remember that those who don't rant about politics and the state of affairs we are in, DO have opinions and perhaps they are dealing with the situation in a manner that does not require sharing with everyone on Facebook.

No doubt, my words may cause ire with someone out there and they will feel the need to lash out. C'est la vie. I will not respond. I choose to live my life in a positive state.

I love you friends. Thank you for being a part of my life.

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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.