Posts that relate very generally to life
Category: Life
The role of Beauty
Thomas Dodd is a photographic artist and his current collection is called All Bodies Are Beautiful. I was attracted to his work a couple of years ago. He expresses the feminine so powerfully and uses mythic and symbolic imagery. I like …
Random Musings
What is it about this dark underbelly of emotion that gets me every time? I love slipping on my gumboots and rugging up to go out into this landscape. I think wandering into the areas of love, romance, heartbreak, loss, hope, …
Esmerelda
Poor me, She fell beneath the wheels to help me up. This song and its clip has really started to haunt me. The music is very moody and I am a sucker for moody stuff for sure. But what really hooked …
Escher Creating the “Snakes” Woodcut
This is worth a watch, only about 2 minutes long and shows the stages that Escher went through to create “Snakes”. My experience of his work tends to be contemplative. He is very successful at getting us to look at something …
Ben Howard
Keep your head up, keep your heart strong.
You are not alone.
‘We all break in different ways.’ © Elsa Holland
The Poet
“A poem has secrets that the poet knows nothing of.” —Stanley Kunitz
Milonga triste – Hugo Diaz (di R. Grela)
In the summer, late into the night with the big lounge doors open and a few glasses of wine already dusted, I like to put this on, Milonga Triste. It features the harmonica player Hugo Diaz and is from the sound track The Tango …
Thoughts on a quote by David Foster Wallace
Hmmm…. This quote has so much appeal. I wondered about that, why it rang so true for me and many others. Personally I think it speaks to the dilemma that in highly emotional situations you never …
Chocolate and young men
Beatrice Wood lived until she was 105 and was an active potter through her 90’s. When asked what her secret was she said “I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.” Those things which inspires us and make …
What kind of bird are YOU?
From the movie about eccentric young love: Moonrise Kingdom
Random Musings
Waking up this morning in Australia it’s the first day of Spring. We had our first asparagus shoots a day ago, first we have grown, I got so excited. Things do climb out of the dark and head into the …