The Heart Is the Best Part

Posted 10th Dec '11 5 comments Posted In The Vault

not all shadows are bad.

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They say no one lives in these…

Posted 8th Dec '11 1 comment Posted In The Vault

I think otherwise. : )

Around and about farms in a village in California… around and about my parents’ house…okay not really…it is the next town over…10 minutes away…

 

 

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Most People Can’t Tell…

Posted 8th Dec '11 5 comments Posted In The Vault

…when two tracks separate…

…yet there were always two

 

This is also alongside Santa Fe Highway near my parents’ village farm house in California. While I was walking around the tracks I came to a point where I really couldn’t tell when the tracks split into two different directions although there were always two separate tracks running alongside each other. Some optical illusion!

 

“And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track.” ~ Steve Jobs, Wizard 

We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don’t ... read more »

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Almond Hills

Posted 8th Dec '11 1 comment Posted In The Vault

When driving on the Santa Fe Highway near my folks’ village in California there are these huge plants where almonds are processed. They look like small hills from far away. My parents’ farmhouse in the village is surrounded by almond trees.

I drove near this, nearer than I had ever gone, and took some photos…. until I was shoo-ed away!

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persistence: keep drawing / writing / …

Posted 17th Nov '11 Posted In The Vault
persistence: keep drawing / writing / …
For those of us for whom it is not about money (although that is marvelous given one needs it, however minimally, to exist in this physical space without anxiety) nor about fame or celebrity (celebrity is a choice and it comes and goes; fame may not be a choice and can be attributed for a variety of reasons one never intended) but about the fragrant, sweet gratification of having sewn our stitch or stitches in the Embroidery of what we saw and heard and what is Possible…for those of us, there is no alternative but persistence.

Mama says persistence means you believe [honestly] in the [realistic] value of what you have to offer regardless of however ... read more »

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