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 on December 4, 2020 in my living room, which is where I do my art work. My father bought that table so that he and my mother would each have a place of their own to do whatever they wanted to do. I have found it to be a great table on which to work on my mandalas. I update this photo every few months.
"OLD GIRL OF THE NORTH COUNTRY" (the earliest name for my blog) 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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