Thankfulness = Happiness

Toasting to Life (*see note below) ©Morri 24″ x 36″ oil on canvas (click on image to enlarge, then again to zoom)   ~~ A thankful heart is always close to the riches of the universe. ~unknown ~~   Hello Lovelies, . I want to say a *HAPPY THANKSGIVING to my friends here in America! [...]

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Dreams..miracles in waiting.

Dreams of Tuscany, Italy ©Susan Morrison Sims 20″ x 36″ acrylic on canvas (Step into my dream, and walk with me. Just click on it…then click again :) ~~ “The dream was always running ahead of me to catch up to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle. ~Anais Nin [...]

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Wild Rain Lilies…useless?

wild rain lilies in a jar acrylic/canvas 24″x32″ (click on image twice to zoom. :) ~~ Remember, the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance. ~John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice , 1851 ~~ Hello my little pretties. :) I hope all is good in your worlds. [...]

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Giving is Liberating to the Soul!

Escape V symbolic self portrait/collage 11.5″x15″ (click on image to enlarge) Painting created from Escape V Collage acrylic on canvas (24″ x 32″) click on image to enlarge Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no ones definition of your life, but define yourself. ~Harvey S. Firestone Okay..I [...]

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The Messenger and Curiosity

~The Messenger~ oil/canvas 24″x30″ (click on image to enlarge) Man is the messenger who forgot the message. ~Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) Hello everyone I hope your week was a pleasant one! I don’t think this will be a long post, but we’ll see what evolves. eh,eh,eh Isn’t this simply a divine quote! Oh how I [...]

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Following the pathless path

the pathless path “unfinished” acrylic on canvas (click on image to enlarge) 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. ~Rosalia de Castro 1837-1885 Good afternoon dear hearts I hope all is good in your worlds. I only have a [...]

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Expand and Live!

Watermelon Magic (pastel on paper) click on the image if you wish to enlarge “I have no hostility to nature, but a child’s love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Hello all…this will be very short as I am pretty tired tonight. We have [...]

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..my heart is listening and it soars!

Tuscan Hill (acrylic on canvas 24″ x 32″) The beauty of the trees, the softness of the air the fragrance of the grass, speaks to me. The summit of the mountain, the thunder of the sky, speaks to me. The faintness of the stars, the trail of the sun, the strength of fire, and the [...]

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Moving in Silence…

dream~scape (escape) (acrylic on canvas) (click on image to enlarge) See how nature~~trees, flowers, grass..grow in silence see the stars, the moon, and the sun how they move in silence we need silence … to touch souls. ~Mother Teresa Dear hearts forgive me for I have been remiss in writing. I hope all is good [...]

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Looking Out From Within

Looking Out From Within (click on image to enlarge) symbolic self portrait (oil/canvas) “A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.” ~from The Little Prince by Antione de Saint-Expuery Hello dear hearts seems a while since we had a chat…though you were in [...]

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