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Faiena is a woman from magic noir, Ascension Island







    Welcome !

    Hold on to your dreams and remember you are loved!

    Just sit back, scroll, click and enjoy, learn, share and care.

    The coffee is hot and the room is filled with love.







Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one.
John Lennon

  • http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/...

    Rated Nov 06 • 2 reviews • painting, arts, art • wikimedia.org







    My creation



    Don't hurry,
    don't worry
    You are only here for a short visit,
    so be sure to stop and smell the flowers
    Walter Hagen


    Tropinin Girl with roses


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  • Would You Rather Be a Butterfly or a Caterpillar?

    Rated 07:15am • 1 review • self improvement • advancedlifeskills.com








    Would You Rather Be a Butterfly or a Caterpillar?





    That's an interesting question; let's think about the difference for a minute. A caterpillar crawls from leaf to leaf, eating, sleeping, and crawling. He does the same thing, day in and day out, not realizing that anything else is possible.A butterfly, on the other hand, goes where it wants to go, and drinks nectar from the choicest flowers. Some butterflies travel thousands of miles to spend the winter in a warm, sunny climate.

    Clearly, the difference between the two is extraordinary. What is even more extraordinary is the fact that the butterfly was once an ordinary caterpillar.

    What are the odds?

    If everybody around us was living a happy and satisfying life, it would seem like a much more realistic goal. But that's not the case, is it? In fact, most people's lives more closely resemble that of the caterpillar, rather than the butterfly.

    Don't let the lack of obvious examples lead you to believe that living the life of your dreams is not possible. The choices that other people make have nothing to do with what is possible for you to achieve. If you make different choices, you can achieve different results.So then, odds have absolutely nothing to do with it. In reality, it all comes down to personal choice. Of course, when we make a choice, we need the knowledge to back it up. I could choose to be a molecular biologist, but my choice would never become a reality if I did not acquire the right knowledge.
    At some point we all have to make a choice.

    Do you want to go on searching as life passes you by?

    Do you want to continue gathering bits and pieces of useful information, and trying to put them all together for yourself?

    Or, are you finally ready to transform your life?


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  • Balthasar Gracians "The Art of Worldly Wisdom"

    Rated 06:29am • 1 review • philosophy, aphorism • balthasargracian.com







    "The Art of Worldly Wisdom"

    Aphorism #299 Leave off Hungry.

    One ought to remove even the bowl of nectar from the lips. Demand is the measure of value. Even with regard to bodily thirst it is a mark of good taste to slake but not to quench it. Little and good is twice good. The second time comes a great falling off. Surfeit of pleasure was ever dangerous and brings down the ill-will of the Highest Powers. The only way to please is to revive the appetite by the hunger that is left. If you must excite desire, better do it by the impatience of want than by the repletion of enjoyment. Happiness earned gives double joy.

    ..............Balthasar Gracian

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  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pierre_August_Reno...

    Rated 08:14pm • 1 review • art history, impressionism, clade monet • wikimedia.org









    Pierre August Renoir,
    Claude Monet Reading

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    .Claude Monet     also known as Oscar Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet (14 November 1840 - 5 December 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise.
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    Impression: Sunrise
    Impression:sunrise
    1883
    by Claude Monet


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  • The Japanese Bridge by Claude Monet - Art in the Picture.com

    Rated 07:42pm • 2 reviews • arts, art, paintings, claude monet, french • artinthepicture.com









    The Japanese Bridge
    1899
    by Claude Monet


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    The Water Lily Pond
    The Water Lily Pond
    Claude Monet


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  • La Japonaise by Claude Monet - ArtinthePicture.com

    Rated 07:29pm • 1 review • art history, impressionism • artinthepicture.com










      La Japonaise
      1876
      by Claude Monet



    It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way.
    So we must dig and delve unceasingly.

    Colour is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

    Claude Monet

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  • Astrid Lindgren

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    Saturday
    Nov., 14
    2009

    It's the birthday of children's novelist     Astrid Lindgren, born in Vimmerby, Sweden (1907). She grew up on a farm in southern Sweden, playing with her brothers and sisters and listening to her family tell stories.

    Eventually she got married, had a daughter, and gave up working at age 24 in order to stay home and take care of her kids. One day, her daughter, Karin, was sick in bed, so Astrid started telling her stories of a spunky, strong, independent girl who mocks adults and manages to get by just fine without a family, caution, education, or the opposite sex. And that girl was Pippi Longstocking, with magical powers, a pet monkey, freckles, and bright red pigtails that stuck out on either side of her head. The book was published as Pippingstrump (1945) in Sweden, Pippi Longstocking in English, and it became one of the most beloved children's books of all time. She described Pippi: "Her hair, the color of a carrot, was braided in two tight braids that stuck straight out. Her nose was the shape of a very small potato and was dotted all over with freckles."

    Astrid Lindgren went on to write more than 80 books, and died at age 94.
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    Quotes


    I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first.

    I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement.

    I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren.


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  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Artemisia_Gentiles...

    Rated Nov 12 • 2 reviews • painting, portrait, woman, baroque, arts • wikimedia.org








    Artemisia Gentileschi,
    Self-portrait as a Female Martyr ca. 1615,
    Private collection Artemisia









    Artemisia Gentileschi (July 8, 1593 - 1651/1653) was an Italian Early Baroque painter, today considered one of the most accomplished painters in the generation influenced by Caravaggio (Caravaggisti). In an era when women painters were not easily accepted by the artistic community, she was the first female painter to become a member of the Accademia di Arte del Disegno in Florence. She was one of the first female artists to paint historical and religious paintings, at a time when such heroic themes were considered beyond a woman's reach.

    . ............. Two great moments in our lives are when we are born and when we discover why we were born.
    We were created for a reason--a divine purpose. Our lives are not accidents or fate. God has a personal plan for each of us. . .


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  • http://www.oilpaintingsgallery.com/disrobed/_Antoine_Jean...

    Rated Nov 12 • 1 review • mythology, arts, paintings • oilpaintingsgallery.com










    Bacchus and Ariadne by Antoine Jean Gros


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    Ariadne was abandoned on the island of Naxos by Theseus
    and was discovered there by the god Bacchus, who fell in love with her.
    (Ovid, 'Metamorphoses', 8).



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  • The Writers Almanac with Garrison Keillor |...

    Rated Nov 12 • 1 review • christianity, classical studies • publicradio.org






    Friday
    Nov., 13
    2009

    "It's the birthday of the man who wrote the first memoir in Western literature:     St. Augustine, born in 354 in Thagaste, which is now in Algeria. He is best known for his Confessions, a 13-book autobiography of his life and conversion.

    He wrote, "Wisdom and folly both are like meats that are wholesome and unwholesome, and courtly or simple words are like town-made or rustic vessels - both kinds of food may be served in either kind of dish.""







    St. Augustine's Prayer to the Holy Spirit

    Breathe in me, O Holy Spirit, that my thoughts may all be holy.
    Act in me, O Holy Spirit, that my work, too, may be holy.
    Draw my heart, O Holy Spirit, that I love but what is holy.
    Strengthen me, O Holy Spirit, to defend all that is holy.
    Guard me, then, O Holy Spirit, that I always may be holy.
    Amen.

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    "What does love look like?
    It has the hands to help others.
    It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy.
    It has eyes to see misery and want.
    It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men.
    That is what love looks like".

    Saint Augustine quote

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