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Category: Love
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Beauty in the world is experienced by the individual as feeling. If we look more closely at beauty and try to describe more carefully the beauty of the world, we do not arrive at aesthetics, but rather love. Is not beauty the particular way in which the world expresses itself as…
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The blue Hydrangea, on a summer's evening, the year of weddings and funerals. Reprinted from January, 2016, with permission!
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Boundless Energy! The urge to make art, anytime, anywhere… And making easy friends with driftwood creatures… St. Augustine Beach, nearly a week after the Hurricane, with Aden, October, 2016.
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If someone dreamed up the world that we live in, (and believe me someone did) then we can dream up a better world. Together.
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Sometimes with all of the bad news in the air, it is difficult to remember that we live in a beautiful, magical world. We must remember to love. That is the only way out of the madness. Love. Faery Garden at Avis' and Lee's house in Roanoke,…
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Is there a part of you that is the essence of who you are? A part that is not corrupted by the culture that you grew up in or the family that tortured you one way or the other? I call it your core. It is pure, whole, and located just below your…
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Tragedy. Shock. Grief. Love. An outpouring of love for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Straight community. In the wake of the horrific shooting at an Orlando Night Club. Sending love to family and friends and first responders and second and third…
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What I have been trying not to say out loud, is that there are blessings or gifts hidden in tragedies, and these gifts may not be obvious for some time to come, but they are there. If we can make a commitment not to let the anger and helplessness allow us to…
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The whole fam-damily… Daddy too!
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It's "King of the Hill" King from the hill… I'm King from the hill!! Ok… King! Aden on the dune, St. Augustine Beach, yesterday! (Laine and Pat's show went really really well, and will be hanging until the 26th of April.) (Thanks to family and friends for…