407 years old today / Rembrandt van Rijn

About "The Night Watch."

One of Rembrandt's many self-portraits:

View from my porch before 7 a.m. this morning:

Two of the three Amaryllis flowers are blooming today:

Concerning the Spiritual in Art

In the interests of everyone the artist has the responsibility of using his medium well. In the Tibetan culture, most of the paintings are of deities or Buddhas, and they try to send a message of the value of the spiritual.

-- Dalai Lama

Concerning the Spiritual in Art, is a book by Wassily Kandinsky I read during the 1980s.

WEAVING YOGA WITH HUMOR

Any weavers out there who can see the humor in this photo?

An unexpected benefit of my yoga practice is an increasing ability to experience humor where I was once able to experience only tears and frustration.

"Practise what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know."
-- Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669)