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Ode to Popcorn I pour the shape-shifters out of the old mason jar into the pan. The color of honey, sleek in their pile of streamlined sibs, not one of them cares if they’re on top, no rivalries, no grasping, nothing falsified from skin to core, no hint about what’s pent inside their quarter inch … Read more
Storm Passing (mixed media) by Polly Castor Do you feel like you are an intuitive painter? “That’s a loaded question. I think everyone paints intuitively, right? But your intuition as a painter is as good as your command of the language. We speak intuitively, but when you are speaking a foreign language and you have … Read more
it is when seeing error, evil, limitation, or lack, that I distrust what the material senses, and turn my thought to focus what God, good, is doing instead.
From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel and densest drama, literature is asking us to pay attention…
While our daughter shopped tools in earnest, I took these photos, seeing compositions everywhere.
Be alert to any preoccupation with any limiting belief or any thought not based on goodness.
I love the emphasis on contrast and the compositional focus that taking photographs in black and white encourages. Removing color highlights textures and comparisons between textures as well. The shadow play of light and dark is also fun, let alone fascinating to contemplate metaphorically. Each of these photographs is a study in these things. We … Read more
Let’s familiarize ourselves with the ideal in order to manifest it.
How exalting it is to meet the joy of life with appreciation and humble thankfulness.
I have been hugely benefited by loosening the clutch of regret through forgiveness, reframing, and finding gratitude where I could. But more than anything, realizing I can reach for my high ideals in how I behave right now, and respond in each present moment with the greatest integrity, kindness, and initiative, helps me to avoid regret in the future.
Value and composition are both so important, I look for them everywhere, and lack and white photography is a great way to study and consider them.
It is so therapeutic and refreshing to spend some time with color when the results do not matter.
If you actually do what she says here you will have some epiphanies and will make progress in your life and in your relationship with yourself.
I’m still walking in the same place seeing nuances of the season everywhere, particularly attracted to reflections, blue shadows, composition, and abstract vignettes.
