La Femme

"I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music." — Joan Miro

Extraordinary Stories in Art & Literature...

Inside a composer's mind...

The reader is my notebook

... between words ...

A place to explore the way the short story works.

Art is more important than ever in our tumultuous world. It can touch us in very powerful ways. Nature is art and artist - so is everyone of us...

A Diary...

Life as an artist...

Loss... and the art of living

"The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between." ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Life Under Water...

Music ~ Poetry ~ Art

"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent." ~ Victor Hugo

An artist's life in an interstellar world...

Photography, Music & Art - “Poetry is us…our voices in the street, like a photograph of the darkness and the light.”

Living a dog's life in a dogs world...

Thoughtfulness and other Dangerous Exercises...

Art & Flow

Everything and more...

“Life isn’t about waiting for the storms to pass ... It’s about learning how to dance in the rain." ~ Vivian Greene

Adventures in Art

"The avant-garde is attitude, principle, set of activities, set of performances, articulatory forms, positive objects and processes." — Vladan Kuzmanovic

Look at the lilies in the field, how they grow... they do not toil or spin...

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music..." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

...exploring the artistic frontiers...

"Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful." — John Maeda

Extraordinary Literature and Audiobooks for Children - "The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart." ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.” — Toni Morrison

Art as Metaphor...

"I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter." ~ Blaise Pascal, 1657

Art for Literary Souls...

The Arts

“What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms.” ~ Kobayashi Issa