Time.... to ignore the world!

Ignoring the world...so important, at times!

morning bell

This morning's scene...In their own worlds and seeming not interested in schools or classes...but they graduated long back...the lessons of life. . .

For a change - an Art and a Model

Been working on Van Gogh's Model....this summer. . .

Art: Van Gogh, Flame Nettle in a Flowerpot, June-July 1886. Oil on canvas, 42 x 22 cm. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

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Here she is...the model, Flame Nettle or Coleus as we call her, among my plants...

question

All in a day...

Joy, if it isn't seeing the morning light filter through a cold window like soft warm hands to magically touch ordinary things to a sparkle, what is it?

Joy, if it isn't a glimpse of the wayside flowers smile in the sun, jiggling and giggling with the passing breeze, what is it?

Joy, if it isn't the sight of the arc of an orange sun cross the rim of the western sky leaving a soft glow, what is it?

  

Joy – if it isn't in the evening sky, where birds sing returning to their homes – where is it?

Joy, if I seek to seize and possess it…will it stay?

here, there

and not there

an elusive joy

Think about it ~

“All I need is a sheet of paper
and something to write with, and then
I can turn the world upside down.” 
― Friedrich Nietzsche


“A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.” 

― Ursula K. Le Guin

Which to go with - After a thought, I choose Ursula, though Nietzche's sounds promising ~ 

And you? Whichever, use words with care. We all need them, all the time. Generations need them. 

art

~ “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” ~ Pablo Picasso