hey, thanks for reading my blog (and the awesome comment). i left you a totally long reply, so feel free to drop by whenever you like.
i really like your work. you're a way talented artist. i especially like the portraits: they have a haunting quality - very mysterious and dream-like.
since my serious work is totally abstract (i paint portraits for a living, but they're not at all original. if someone wants a warhol-like portrait, i can manage it. van gogh, manet, renoir, modigliani, degas, cassatt, hopper, hockney--i just paint whatever is wanted most), i admire painters that can create original portraits big time.
i enjoyed reading many of your posts and i think it's really cool that you have music on your blog.
i also totally like janis, dylan, merton, picasso, van gogh, baez, lennon, the beatles, dickinson, joni mitchell, Whitman, birds, clouds, solitude, brautigan, chagall, patti smith, blake, dylan thomas, vonnegut..... i could go on, but i have to first finish reading your awesome blog!
have you read may sarton's journal of a solitude? it really helped me feel way more positive about being such a total recluse. most people are afraid and lonely when they are alone for days and days. but it can be a good thing: it gives the solitary person a chance to think, write, paint, pray, meditate--in a really pure sort of way.
thanks for letting me read your awesome blog. i feel totally humbled. it's sort of like i've just been to church and a really cool art museum.
i'm very much looking forward to reading more of your posts.
I saw this article in the Washington Post, and it made me think of you. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2014/09/26/scientists-confess-to-sneaking-bob-dylan-lyrics-into-their-work-for-the-past-17-years/?tid=pm_pop
A mental health counselor who helped me in my early sobriety suggested that book. It's been many years since I read it. Maybe it's time for me to read it again.
Funny that you should comment that my blog made you think of a church and an art museum:
How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be? -- Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
Welcome to "37TH DREAM (RUMORS OF PEACE)".
The photograph currently at the top of my blog was taken from my porch before sunrise on October 29, 2023.
"OLD GIRL OF THE NORTH COUNTRY" (the earliest name for my blog -- http://oldgirlfromthenorthcountry.blogspot.com
) came to life in early December of 2006 so that I could post a 42-year retrospective of my paintings and drawings and through that action, create a new relationship with the day the man I loved returned from Vietnam in December 1970. For a while (sometime after spring of 2008, which is when he died) my blog was "TALKING 37TH DREAM WITH RAINBOW (RUMORS OF PEACE)". For a number of years, it's been "TALKING 37TH DREAM (RUMORS OF PEACE)." As of April 12, 2017 my blog was titled "37TH DREAM / TALKING 37TH DREAM (RUMORS OF PEACE/LOOKING UP)". Somewhere along the way it became 37TH DREAM (RUMORS OF PEACE).
To begin viewing the retrospective with narrative, scroll down to December 8, 2006, on this page:
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. -- Martin Buber (1878-1965)
It is only a little planet, but how beautiful it is.
-- Robinson Jeffers
The true end of a war is the rebirth of life; the right to die peacefully in your own bed. The true end of war is the end of fear; the true end of war is the return of laughter.
-- Alfred Molano
Enjoy every sandwich -- Warren Zevon (1947-2003)
Not in God's wilds will you ever hear the sad moan, "All is vanity." No, we are paid a thousand times for all our toil, and after a single day spent outdoors in their atmosphere of strength and beauty, one could still say, should death come — even without any hope of another life — "Thank you for this most glorious gift!" and pass on.
-- John Muir (1838-1914)
Philip Henslowe: Mr. Fennyman, allow me to explain about the theatre business. The natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. Hugh Fennyman: So what do we do? Philip Henslowe: Nothing. Strangely enough, it all turns out well. Hugh Fennyman: How? Philip Henslowe: I don't know. It's a mystery.
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hey, thanks for reading my blog (and the awesome comment). i left you a totally long reply, so feel free to drop by whenever you like.
i really like your work. you're a way talented artist. i especially like the portraits: they have a haunting quality - very mysterious and dream-like.
since my serious work is totally abstract (i paint portraits for a living, but they're not at all original. if someone wants a warhol-like portrait, i can manage it. van gogh, manet, renoir, modigliani, degas, cassatt, hopper, hockney--i just paint whatever is wanted most), i admire painters that can create original portraits big time.
i enjoyed reading many of your posts and i think it's really cool that you have music on your blog.
i also totally like janis, dylan, merton, picasso, van gogh, baez, lennon, the beatles, dickinson, joni mitchell, Whitman, birds, clouds, solitude, brautigan, chagall, patti smith, blake, dylan thomas, vonnegut..... i could go on, but i have to first finish reading your awesome blog!
have you read may sarton's journal of a solitude? it really helped me feel way more positive about being such a total recluse. most people are afraid and lonely when they are alone for days and days. but it can be a good thing: it gives the solitary person a chance to think, write, paint, pray, meditate--in a really pure sort of way.
thanks for letting me read your awesome blog. i feel totally humbled. it's sort of like i've just been to church and a really cool art museum.
i'm very much looking forward to reading more of your posts.
Wonderful mandalas. Love this artwork.
I saw this article in the Washington Post, and it made me think of you.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2014/09/26/scientists-confess-to-sneaking-bob-dylan-lyrics-into-their-work-for-the-past-17-years/?tid=pm_pop
Zach -- Thank you for your long reply to my comment at your blog.
Thank you for your appreciation of my art work.
I have read that book by May Sarton. I feel most safe when I am in solitude but have become more comfortable socially in recent years.
Have you read this book?:
http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/books/excerpts.php?id=21204
A mental health counselor who helped me in my early sobriety suggested that book. It's been many years since I read it. Maybe it's time for me to read it again.
Funny that you should comment that my blog made you think of a church and an art museum:
http://talking37thdream.blogspot.com/2009/12/holy-contradictions-1982-32-years-old.html
An alternative name for my blog would be "Welcome to the Church of the Holy Contradiction."
Walt Whitman's words move me:
"Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes."
robin andrea -- Thank you, robin andrea. I love your photography (-:
Thanks for the link, robin andrea (-:
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