HAVE A GREAT DAY!

The Maze

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. 

Mother Teresa 

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Thomas Merton is all I need

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us. 

Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee. T. Fuller

 You will never know true happiness until you have truly loved, and you will never understand what pain really is until you have lost it. 

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us.  But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.  ~Tad Williams

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.  ~Mark Twain

“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.”

Mother Teresa

Last Night

“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.” 

- C.S. Lewis -

Ralph!

" Me fail English? That's unpossible! " 

- Ralph WIggum-

NOM NOM

Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars. 

H. THOREAU

RALPH!

Creative!

“To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.” 

Pablo Naruda

EVERYDAY

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one. 

Dr. Seuss 

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. 

Albert Einstein 

I Love You

“I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.”

I know if I'm lost in the moment or not. - J. Phoenix

Merton - Thoughts on Solitude

“If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.” 

I am Free!

My friend Don doing his thing! So beautiful! "I am free! Free to do what I was born to do!"

The Awesome K. Haring

I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that.

Watercolor!

Color, rather than shape, is more closely related to emotion. - D. Katz

New Army Pass Hike

“Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house a world; and beyond its world, a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you. For you is the phenomenon perfect. What we are, that only can we see. All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do. Adam called his house, heaven and earth; Caesar called his house, Rome; you perhaps call yours, a cobler's trade; a hundred acres of ploughed land; or a scholar's garret. Yet line for line and point for point, your dominion is as great as theirs, though without fine names. Build, therefore, your own world.” 

Emerson, Nature

My simple little packaging in Red!

My simple little packaging

I didn't know how to name You then. But I see it was You. Always You were calling me. Young Jack, Tree of Life

"Give me the splendid silent sun at sunset"

To watch a sunset is to connect with the Divine. - Gina De Gorna

The Most Amazing Kid Ever!

The "ticket part" seems to be hitting everyone the most when they see this. We all need to be like Caine!
For more info go to cainesarcade.com  

On the door next to The Casbah

Information Art

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained. I stand and look at them long and long. - WALT WHITMAN, Leaves of Grass

Elephants!

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity, but great fulfillment. - David Attenborough

Fully Mechanical Conscienceless Devices

Kaleidoscope's Trendy New Look

Octopodes change their color and shape depending on their environment. The kaleidoscope changes depending upon the turning by the user. In this re-branding of the original toy below, the background and octopus are connected. If the background changes, so does the octopus, showing a connection between the original use of the kaleidoscope's colors and the amazing abilities of octopodes. I wish they still made these the old fashioned way with card board and paper and not in China. So, DIY and doneski!

For nerds, like me, who wish for more kaleidoscope and octopodes goodies:

pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/the-octopus-show/introduction/2013/ 

www.kaleidoscopestoyou.com/hiofka1.html 

Octopodes Roy G. Biv Style

The Balloon of Creativity

Part of an illustration series based on Balloon of the Mind by Yeats and  The Butterfly by Hans Christian Anderson