Painting is cathartic for me. I get out some dark emotions. I am always surprised to step back and see beauty from emotions that aren’t pretty and are sometimes painful. There is beauty from ashes. “…to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a …
The Saponification Process Sometimes I make home-made soaps. The process of saponification is really fascinating to me. That of the Lye in the soap changing the molecular structure of the fats into glycerine.
Do You Relate? Ever found yourself standing at the market looking at cool sounding produce like Leeks, Lemon Grass, or Ugly Fruit but have no idea really what to use them for? I Like How Lemon Grass Tastes & Smells Today I bought some lemon grass because it smelled so great. Brought it home, …
Are You Going To Finish Strong? Nick Vujicic VideoAwesome video! If you watch only one video today make sure it is this one! Nick Vujicic has no limbs but he leads an incredible life!
Paul Cram on the set of Killer With A Punctured Heart An actor’s job is unique in that we are payed to pretend to be other people, in an attempt to give the general population an escape from reality for awhile.It’s beautiful to me in many ways.
Last night, as I was sleeping,I dreamt — marvelous error!—that a spring was breakingout in my heart.I said: Along which secret aqueduct,Oh water, are you coming to me,water of a new lifethat I have never drunk? Last night, as I was sleeping,I dreamt — marvelous error!—that I had a beehivehere inside my heart.And the golden …
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movieladiesman04 said in an earlier blog comment… “Paul ought to play Tobin Bell’s son in a movie.”May 25, 2008 12:51 PM -I had to look up Tobin to see if there was a resemblance… do you agree?
Spring is amidst the breeze…
I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. ~Agatha Christie
There usually is more beneath the surface.