Mélusine de Monroe

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...

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

A place to explore the way the short story works.

Inside a composer's mind...

The reader is my notebook

The Art of Living

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

The Tao Te Ching, written around 400 BC by Lao Tzu. Translated by James Legge.

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

Victor Hugo's historical novel, first published in 1862 and considered one of the greatest in the 19th century. Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood.

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Highlighting visual storytelling from China, through Chinese eyes.

... between words ...

Art & Flow

Facts, data and analytics about biomedical matters

"Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know." ~ Lao Tsu

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

Words - Art - Photography

"May every living thing, young or old, weak or strong, living near or far, known or unknown, living or departed or yet unborn, may every living thing be full of bliss." ~ Anonymous

Stories from the Bowl!

Food History in Art ~ We are what we eat...

Extraordinary Stories in Art & Literature...

...exploring the artistic frontiers...

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

Loss... and the art of living

"A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch - his virtues and greatness belong to himself.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Art as Metaphor...

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

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

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

Everything and more...

Art for Polymaths...

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

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

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

Plato's most influential works of philosophy and political theory, authored around 375 BC.

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

Speculative fiction and more... ~ "All things are possible until they are proved impossible and even the impossible may only be so, as of now." ~ Pearl S. Buck

Music ~ Poetry ~ Art

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

The Arts

Life as an artist...

"Do Sculptures Think?"

Artistic Temptations...

Let's Save Our Planet And Make It A Better Place For All... We Can Do It!

The Art of Communication ~ a Visual Journey of the Unspeakable…

Art & Design

Homer's works, written around 8th century BCE, are regarded as one of the most significant works of the Western canon.

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