When I fully enter time’s swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my attention, I slow the torrent with the weight of me all here. ―Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts Image © 膀胱眼球胎 with CCLicense
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Quote for Today: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not waste yourself in rejection; do not bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. --Ralph Waldo Emerson Public Domain Image via Pixabay
Quote for Today: Martha Graham
Looking at the past is like lolling in a rocking chair. It is so relaxing and you can rock back and forth on the porch, and never go forward. ―Martha Graham, Blood Memory
Quote for Today: Jean Arp
Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb. --Jean Arp
Quote for Today: Anne Lamott
Gorgeous, amazing things come into our lives when we are paying attention: mangoes, grandnieces, Bach, ponds. This happens more often when we have as little expectation as possible. If you say, "Well, that's pretty much what I thought I'd see," you are in trouble. At that point you have to ask yourself why you are … Continue reading Quote for Today: Anne Lamott
The Depths of Nonverbal Conversation: Marina Abramović’s The Artist is Present
Art and conversation contain elements that evade language and communicate on a different level. How do these elements reach us? Marina Abramović is one of the world's most famous performance artists. She uses her own body to create performances that defy explanation and convention and challenge her own physical and mental limits as well as the … Continue reading The Depths of Nonverbal Conversation: Marina Abramović’s The Artist is Present
Quote for Today: Elizabeth von Arnim
...listening with absorbed attention more to her voice than to what she was saying, and thinking how like she was, flowering through her voice into beauty in the darkness, to some butterflies he had come across in the Swiss mountains the summer before. When they were folded up they were grey, mothlike creatures that one … Continue reading Quote for Today: Elizabeth von Arnim
