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Category Archives: Art
Thought Dreams Nature
Thought dreams nature into beautiful images of its reflection. With mindful meditation on nature through art my spirit recalls the mystical beginning and ending of all. ~ms
Posted in Art, Nature, photography, Poetry, spirituality
Tagged Adobe Photoshop, Dreams, imagination
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Life is a Dramatic Opera
It would be nice if life could always be comfortable and predictable—without arguments, misunderstandings, trials, or tribulations. But it’s not. Life is like a dramatic opera, filled with ups and downs, and love which sometimes goes awry. There are times … Continue reading
Something about No Thing
While I was sleeping in double negatives, No Thing came and swallowed up my waking world. Without direction in a strange inverted place lost and all alone, I hid behind the branches of a dreaming tree hoping No Thing would not see, or hear me breathing. I … Continue reading
Dreaming Eyes
Listen to dark winds caress the leafless tree that stands in moonlight glowing, capturing words of wisdom on cold gnarled branches a thousand dreams old. Open wide your dreaming eyes as thought creates itself here, there, and everywhere wandering without boundaries in … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Nature, Philosophy, photography, Poetry
Tagged Dreams, Shamanism, Spirituality
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Appreciating the Writer Within
Since it is the end of the year 2012, I decided to make a little card in appreciation of all the wonderful bloggers that I have had the honor to meet this year through words and photos posted on WordPress. Because of you, … Continue reading
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