WHAT SCARES YOU?

Don’t hide your talent inside you; share it with others; do what you fear most and you will fear nothing. I realized these things long ago and and they are concepts I highly recommend, adding only . . . do it now!
Perfection is a trap designed by someone trying to reduce the competition. Don’t wait [...]

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SASHA the kitty – Runs With Squirrels

It’s all good . . .
We had avoided the highway closure on I-70 from snow in the Rockies by opting to take I-40, but the back story is how our young kitty, Sasha, finally convinced us to let her stay in the Southwest where the climate more to her liking.

It started on the six hour [...]

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OBJETS D’ART

OBJETS D’ ART
1. Works of art are created by people.
2. Works of art are seen, heard, read, perceived, felt, sensed, and experienced by people.
3. If you leave people out of the equation, you don’t have a work of art, as at least one person must be involved to create, view, hear, see, sense and experience [...]

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SO THIS IS YOUR LIFE?

Once upon a time there was this happy little guy, playing the game of life without too much trouble, finding his way the best he could and mostly ending up on top.
But for some strange reason he began to think that everything was too easy for him; nothing that really challenged him. He started thinking [...]

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APHORISMS FOR LIVING

APHORISMS* FOR LIVING
* A Short, Pointed Sentence Expressing a Wise or
Clever Observation or a General Truth
Your creation of time, circumstance and conditions of life determine where you have been, what you are and who you will become.

To live a complex life to the fullest, simplify.
Behind each false complexity a truth lies.
Education can sometimes get [...]

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THE TRUE FRIENDS GROUP

There is a group that exists which I had not before recognized or acknowledged; yet it has had an influence on me throughout my whole life.
It is called simply, the true friends group.
Members of this group know who they are and simply carry on, often unnoticed and without fanfare or flourish. They do not [...]

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ONE SENTENCE

FIRST WARNING:
DO NOT READ THIS SENTENCE – unless you are willing to experience potentially irreversible changes in enlightenment as a result of knowledge acquired by the use of reasoning, intuition and keen perception.
And for those brave souls who give no heed to this announcement – those radical free-thinkers who refuse to conform to the dictates, [...]

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ON BEING AN ARTIST

An artist is someone who produces beautiful or thought-provoking works in music, painting or writing or
other forms of art as a method of individual expression involving great skill and creativity.

You definitely qualify as a member of this select group of individuals, each separately known as . . . an artist.
I have observed over our [...]

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