Dec 15 2010
 Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it’s another nonconformist who doesn’t conform to the prevailing standards of nonconformity.
–Bill Vaughan |
 Glyph 5 |
Dec 14 2010
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.
–Robert Ingersoll |
 Glyph 4 |
Dec 13 2010
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.
–S.I. Hayakawa |
 Glyph 3 |
Dec 10 2010
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| You laugh at me because I am different; I laugh because you are all the same.
–Daniel Knode |
 Glyph 1 |
Dec 09 2010
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.
–Samuel Butler |
 Ornamental 13 |
Dec 08 2010
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
I’m coming close to having my fill.
| Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
–Bernard Berenson |
 Floristic |
Dec 07 2010
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| My uncle ordered popovers from the restaurant’s bill of fare. And, when they were served, he regarded them with a penetrating stare. Then he spoke great words of wisdom as he sat there on that chair: “To eat these things,” said my uncle, “You must exercise great care. You may swallow down what’s solid, but you must spit out the air!” And as you partake of the world’s bill of fare, that’s darned good advice to follow. Do a lot of spitting out the hot air. And be careful what you swallow. –Theodore Seuss Geisel |
 Ornamental 12 |
Dec 06 2010
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
I’m coming close to having my fill.
| What makes you think that human beings are sentient and aware? There’s no evidence for it. Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told – and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their “beliefs.” The reason is that beliefs guide behavior, which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is a self-congratulatory delusion.
–Michael Crichton |
 Ornamental 11 |
Dec 05 2010
Wild Yoginis Wild awareness,
up and up and up we go,
We’re willin’
As they say in the WestYou were called
Red Haired Dakini
by someone who
knew what that meantIn New Orleans
you led the puja, we chanted,
Avolokitesvara, Chenrezig,
and then we walked down
Bourbon Street together.You bought one of those giant
neon colored iced alcoholic slurpees.We practiced every day
and opened up to the Universe
like crazy yoginis.
Dec 03 2010
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
–Eric Hoffer |
 Ornamental 10 |
Dec 02 2010
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| I may not be different, but I’m definitely not the same.
–William J. Dybus |
 Ornamental 9 |
Dec 01 2010
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression.
–Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare |
 Ornamental 8 |
The following was written for a previous World AIDS Day.
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