Learning Spanish has become a full-time job as I work on my mandalas and everything else
Y antes de morirme quiero
Echar mis versos del alma.
Listening to songs in Spanish helps me in my learning process. The world feels new. I think of you, Sabine, knowing several languages, several ways of being in the world.
Twelve of my framed drawings and paintings (dibujos y picturas del alma) from the 1980s are on display and for sale at a local independent store. Legendary Vinyl sells vinyl record albums and turntables on consignment.
So much to do, so little time. And yet, it is enough. More than I ever expected.
I know a little sigh language. I learned it in my thirties to teach to Miss Katie. Sadly I've lost most of it, except what she signs on a regular basis. I admired that you're learning a new language. It's not easy.
there had been a house on out street no one lived in but someone was taking care of. after Harvey and the flood, they fixed up the damage and finally moved in. a young man and his wife, his brother, and his parents. Only the young husband and his brother speak English. I should brush up on my spanish. haha. I have so little that remains in my head. but I would like to be able to talk to the wife and mother and they have so many plants and flowers.
your work looks GREAT on display!! I hope you sell them all.
My friend and current housemate is taking a Spanish class with her daughter right now. They have a part-time home in Mexico and feel embarrassed that they know so little of the language. It's tough to learn this at our age, so kudos to you.
Those paintings look stunning and I hope you have some good sales results. Throughout my teens at school I was told that I had no talent for modern foreign languages and told to concentrate on Latin as this would be my only chance to fulfill the exam requirements. When I met R I had very little English but it was our emotional language and I think it was because of these emotions that I mastered it in a short time. There are so many positive feelings I cannot express in my native language at all, but I can be angry in German. Enjoy learning Spanish!
I love seeing your art on the walls at the record store. That is so cool, and they look beautiful. I truly admire you for learning Spanish. Our grandkids are in a charter school that teaches in both languages. So, they are learning Spanish at a young age. I wish I had had that experience.
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.
9 comments:
I know a little sigh language. I learned it in my thirties to teach to Miss Katie. Sadly I've lost most of it, except what she signs on a regular basis. I admired that you're learning a new language. It's not easy.
I also like your paintings.
Are those your paintings??? I love them!
Rosemarie -- Yes (-: Thank you!
Lilycedar -- Thank you!
Your paintings are stunning. Great colors and shapes.
there had been a house on out street no one lived in but someone was taking care of. after Harvey and the flood, they fixed up the damage and finally moved in. a young man and his wife, his brother, and his parents. Only the young husband and his brother speak English. I should brush up on my spanish. haha. I have so little that remains in my head. but I would like to be able to talk to the wife and mother and they have so many plants and flowers.
your work looks GREAT on display!! I hope you sell them all.
My friend and current housemate is taking a Spanish class with her daughter right now. They have a part-time home in Mexico and feel embarrassed that they know so little of the language. It's tough to learn this at our age, so kudos to you.
xoxoxo
Those paintings look stunning and I hope you have some good sales results.
Throughout my teens at school I was told that I had no talent for modern foreign languages and told to concentrate on Latin as this would be my only chance to fulfill the exam requirements.
When I met R I had very little English but it was our emotional language and I think it was because of these emotions that I mastered it in a short time. There are so many positive feelings I cannot express in my native language at all, but I can be angry in German.
Enjoy learning Spanish!
I love seeing your art on the walls at the record store. That is so cool, and they look beautiful. I truly admire you for learning Spanish. Our grandkids are in a charter school that teaches in both languages. So, they are learning Spanish at a young age. I wish I had had that experience.
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