Elongated neck? Not yet sure what was wrong, but knew something was... 18" x 24" ~ Oil on Canvas
Decided to keep her elongated neck and to show off her broad shoulders...
Close up ... This is 'Mona' as named by my daughter, Alexandra. She thought she looked like Mona Lisa in the original sketch, so I decided to keep the name for her. She's not quite finished...but she's getting there...
~Calli
*remember ~ click any image to enlarge. don't be frightened, I'm not! ...
When it's good, then it's good It's so good 'till it goes bad 'Till you're trying to find the you that you once had I have heard myself cry, never again! Broken down in agony And just trying to find a friend...
lyrics from Pink's 'Sober'... image source: yesterday_by_slychance
the never ending story… can barely detect its beginning
and despise the thought of its end
are you here as my teacher? my messenger of love? as my best friend? or confidant?
either way …
you’ve created music in my heart, words upon my blank pages, art where there was none.
you’ve unearthed shadows in my soul installed Light in my small darkened world
you’ve brought me to the brink of perfected love… you let me see, you let me touch and down to the depths where life was once full of sadness and unpleasant emotions - begging for freedom! you set my soul on Freedom’s Path!
Here we are, finally together holding close, never release this feeling, this moment, my dream is now
I'm loving you,
chorus: cause you're beautiful, something in your eyes tells me I have found love that never dies I don't have to dream reality is beautiful in you I never felt more true
there you are finally the answer take my hand never release the sweetness, the magic, and happiness I've found in you
Through the disciplined precision of our efforts, we'll come again and again to our edge--the difficult places beyond which we've previously been unable to move. Through the willingness to soften and surrender to what is, we learn that we can gradually move beyond that edge. It is only through this interplay of hard and soft, of effort and letting be, of will and willingness, that we learn to our amazement that we can emerge from the lifelong tunnel of fear that constitutes our substitute life into the nitty-gritty reality of our genuine one.
-Ezra Bayda, from Being Zen: Bringing Meditation to Life (Shambhala)
Jonathan Rhys Meyers-from the film August Rush ~ 'Something Inside'...
When the one thing you're looking for Is nowhere to be found And you back stepping all of your moves Trying to figure it out You wanna reach out You wanna give in Your head's wrapped around what's around the next bend You wish you could find something warm 'Cause you're shivering cold It's the first thing you see as you open your eyes The last thing you say as your saying goodbye Something inside you is crying and driving you on It's the first thing you see as you open your eyes The last thing you say as your saying goodbye Something inside you is crying and driving you on
'Cause if you hadn't found me I would have found you I would have found you
So long you've been running in circles 'Round what's at stake But now the times come for your feet to stand still in one place You wanna reach out You wanna give in Your head's wrapped around what's around the next bend You wish you could find something warm 'Cause you're shivering cold It's the first thing you see as you open your eyes The last thing you say as your saying goodbye Something inside you is crying and driving you on It's the first thing you see as you open your eyes The last thing you say as your saying goodbye Something inside you is crying and driving you on
'Cause if you hadn't found me I would have found you I would have found you
It was your first taste of love Living upon what you had
It's the first thing you see when you open your eyes The last thing you say as your saying goodbye Something inside you is crying and driving you on
'Cause if you hadn't found me I would have found you I would have found you I would have found you I would have found you
*a modern day Fairy Tale...
Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor...Opus 85 ~ taken from one of 4 movements, this one: Adagio ~ Moderato... lyrics: Steve Erdody and Jonathan Rhys Meyers
This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they're a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
a French musical collective led by musicians Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux. Their name is a play on words referring simultaneously to their "Frenchness" and "artiness" (the '60s new wave of cult French cinema), the source of their songs (all covers of punk rock, post-punk, and New Wave songs), and their use of '60s Bossa nova-style arrangements. (from Wikipedia)
I just love this! love it! makes me smile!
cuz when it's all said and done, you keep on dancin'
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