day 248 ~ scraping sky

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"The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. 

You have to leave the city of your comfort 

and go into the wilderness of your intuition.

What you'll discover will be wonderful. 

What you'll discover is yourself." 

~ Alan Alda

ever discovering ~ misha

day 168 ~ To Do

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Monday. Monday.

priorities and play ~ misha

day 167 ~ sweet sustenance

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The Holy Longing
by Johann W. Von Goethe


Tell a wise person, or else keep silent,
because the mass man will mock it right away.
I praise what is truly alive,
what longs to be burned to death.

In the calm water of the love-nights,
where you were begotten, where you have begotten,
a strange feeling comes over you,
when you see the silent candle burning.

Now you are no longer caught in the obsession with darkness,
and a desire for higher love-making sweeps you upward.

Distance does not make you falter.
Now, arriving in magic, flying,
and finally, insane for the light,
you are the butterfly and you are gone.
And so long as you haven't experienced this: to die and so to grow,
you are only a troubled guest on the dark earth.

yet another tree ~ misha

day 166 ~ flight of fancy

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I don't know what kind of bird this is, but for now I'm going to imagine that it is a mockingbird.

because every now and then,
I need me some Rives.




(Parental discretion advised.)

waiting in the meadow ~ misha    <-----really, i waited in a meadow for over 3 hours this morning hoping to see baby Purple Martins, but apparently they have fledged already.

day 165 ~ temple forest

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There is a Native American story of a tribe which had to flee their home due to a volcano erupting...

The moccasins they left behind turned into orchids.

noggin' nosh ~ misha

day 164 ~ the fifteenth letter

~ O ~

According to Wikipedia:


O is the fourth most commonly used letter in the English language. It was derived from the Semetic 'Ayin' (eye), a letter which in its original form is thought to have been inspired by the Egyptian hieroglyph for "eye". Its graphic form has remained fairly consistent since Phoenician times and resembles the shape the mouth makes when speaking its sound.









digital exploration and pronunciation ~ misha 

day 163 ~ Polaris Rising

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"We are star stuff."

~ Carl Sagan

north star and basking tree ~ misha

day 162 ~ summer night

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"Over hill, over dale,
Thorough bush, thorough brier,
Over park, over pale,
Thorough flood, thorough fire,
I do wander everywhere."

~ Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Happy Summer Solstice

moonlight meandering ~ misha

day 161 ~ temple glass

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"People are like stained glass windows. 

They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, 

but when the darkness sets in, 

their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."

 ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

window gazing ~ misha

day 160 ~ subtleties

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"When you are describing a shape, a sound, or tint; 

don't state the matter plainly, 

but put it in a hint; 

and learn to look at all things 

with a sort of mental squint." 

~ Lewis Carroll

squinting and tinting ~ misha

day 159 ~ passages

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"All conditioned things are impermanent. 

Work out your own salvation with diligence."

~ The Buddha's last words 

passages ~ misha 

day 158 ~ five strings

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Back when my laptop had properly functioning audio, one of my favorite ways to post a blog was with music to accompany the visuals. Primarily, I would post the tune I listened to while creating the piece. The layering allowed me to bring the viewer just a wee bit further into my vision.

This morning, as I set out to create today's tree, I looked through my iPod playlists and opted for "Top 25 Most Played". The song topping my list immediately transported me to this pondering:

If we suddenly found ourselves in an alternative universe, one in which our surroundings were predominately sound waves and not light waves, and you could choose one song to "live within", which would it be?

My list is long and I might have to beg this new universe for a rotation, but topping the list would be the song which inspired this piece entitled, 'five strings'.

and like so much of my work created over the past 5 years, it was created while listening to Mazzy Star's, "Five String Serenade". This song will most likely inspire me to finally learn how to play guitar, or at least get my musically talented son to learn how to play it so that I can sing along.

Which song tops your list?







images and fanciful imaginings ~ misha

day 157 ~ somewhere

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"A place where there isn't any trouble. Do you suppose there is such a place, Toto? 

There must be. It's not a place you can get to by a boat or a train. 

It's far, far away. 

Behind the moon,

beyond the rain..." 

~ Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz

alternative Emerald City ~ misha 

day 156 ~ water's edge

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"My first vision of earth was water veiled. 

I am of the race 

of men and women who see 

all  things through this 

curtain of sea, and my eyes are the 

color of water." 

~ Anais Nin

image ~ misha

day 155 ~ generations

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"To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. 

Therefore, to live one must be ready to die. 

How's that for a paradox?"

~ Tom Robbins

image ~ misha

day 154 ~ grey matter

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"The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility 

of crossing my mind." 

~ Douglas Adams

If you are pondering how the image and quote fit together, you can stop now because they don't. I was out looking for a quote about unified consciousness but found this gem from Douglas Adams instead. He makes me laugh, and laughter is high on my list of priorities.

Gratitude ranks right up there, too. Today, I am grateful for this new router! and my fingers are crossed that when my uncle gets here, he will have good news for an easy and inexpensive fix for my air conditioner which stopped working the same day my router did.

So much catching up to do. I miss seeing what you are all up to and am looking forward to getting this yearbook project wrapped up SOON. I hope. I hope. 

peace and kitten love ~

mish

day 153 ~ smitten

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with kittens!

a barkless tree and a wee tale...

For our children's summer birthdays, we decided to finally get our two long awaited kittens. After looking around for several days, we decided to bring home two sweet sisters based on some photos and emails exchanged. We decided to name the white one Alice and the black one Abracadabra, and call her Abby.

It wasn't until we got them home that I thought I ought to verify that they are both females. Lo and behold, Alice is most definitely not a girl kitten!

Predictably enough, they are now being called Yin and Yang.

We are all deep in kitten love.

day 152 ~ circles

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Recommended musical accompaniment. 

Hopefully the audio is decent. 

I still don't have sound and have no way of knowing.

music ~ Greg Laswell, "Your Ghost"
hallways, circles and doors ~ misha

day 151 ~ poultree

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"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."

~ e.e. cummings

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~ poultree ~

~ poultree detail ~

tree dressing ~ misha

day 150 ~ in bloom night and day

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"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day."  

~ Vincent Van Gogh

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

digital meanderings ~ misha