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Dec 06 2010

Muse in the Morning

By Robyn in Art, Community, Poetry

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 03 2010

Muse in the Morning

By Robyn in Art, Community, Poetry

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

By Robyn in Art, Community, Poetry

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

Muse in the Morning

Dec 01 2010

Muse in the Morning

By Robyn in Art, Community, Poetry

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.

Planet

Days Will Come

Days will come

when sanity will

regain supremacy,

when disease will

be battled without

political consideration,

when people’s deaths

will not be occasions

to seek out

personal advantage.

But not today.

–Robyn Elaine Serven
–December 1, 2005

Muse in the Morning

Nov 30 2010

Muse in the Morning

By Robyn in Art, Community, Poetry

Muse in the Morning

Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.

If you don’t control your mind, someone else will.

–John Allston

Ornamental 7

Nov 29 2010

Muse in the Morning

By Robyn in Art, Community, Poetry

Muse in the Morning

Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.

We need – and should encourage and honor – not only discoverers of facts hitherto unknown but explorers of ideas and rethinkers of values.

–Walter Moberly

Ornamental 6

Nov 25 2010

Muse in the Morning

By Robyn in Art, Community, Poetry

Muse in the Morning

Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.

One who walks in another’s tracks leaves no footprints.

–Proverb

Ornamental 3

Nov 24 2010

Muse in the Morning

By Robyn in Art, Community, Poetry

Muse in the Morning

Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.

–Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ornamental 2

Nov 23 2010

Muse in the Morning

By Robyn in Art, Community, Poetry

Muse in the Morning

Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

–Friedrich Nietzsche