"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."-- Albert Einstein
Reading, SURREALISM, Photography, Laure, Music, Tai Chi, cool~ OPEN~MINDED people, Going HOME, (where is it again?)
Music, Not hurting myself any more than I have already, correcting my wrongs, adoring myself, saving my liver, Eating Sushi, loving someone who adores me more than their own EGO, Swimming in the Ocean and not being afraid of what’s beneath me, eating grapes, jumping on beds in crowded hotel rooms, blowing bubbles,
Weightlessness vii by PatriciaD
seeing awesome bands live, touching someone’s body in a way they’ll never forget, adoring MY heart, Believing I’ll become what I’m MEANT to BE in THIS LIFE (Is this my life?), not drowning in a sea of tears, forgetting all my father put me through, Loving him anyway, remembering all my mom gave me before she had to leave this world at 45, me at fifteen, Anyone who matters, (which is everyone WITHOUT malice or prejudice), Coloring, Meditating, Pillows, Candles, the MOON, India, Switzerland, Italy, Ireland, Audrey Hepburn,
Christina Ricci, Joaquin Phoenix, Fiona Apple, Brandon Boyd and his art,
REMEDIOS VARO (See below artwork!!!!), Frida Kahlo, Dorothea Tanning, Kay Sage, Salvador Dali, M.C Escher, Yves Tanguy, Rene Magritte, Paul Klee, Max Ernst, William Blake, Nerea Pozo, Shiori Matsumoto, Mark Ryden, Marc Chagall, Pierre Renoir, Michelangelo, Filipo Lippi, TONS more aRt and artists ... + much more schtuff! ~OM~ oh yeah, & Music.
~Kendra Binney~
'How They were Taken Away So Easily',Oil on Birch by Tara McPherson
From one of my favorite poets:
--Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891)
above aRt by John Everett Millais
You are The Moon
Hope, expectation, Bright promises.
The Moon is a card of magic and mystery - when prominent you know that nothing is as it seems, particularly when it concerns relationships. All logic is thrown out the window.
The Moon is all about visions and illusions, madness, genius and poetry. This is a card that has to do with sleep, and so with both dreams and nightmares. It is a scary card in that it warns that there might be hidden enemies, tricks and falsehoods. But it should also be remembered that this is a card of great creativity, of powerful magic, primal feelings and intuition. You may be going through a time of emotional and mental trial; if you have any past mental problems, you must be vigilant in taking your medication but avoid drugs or alcohol, as abuse of either will cause them irreparable damage. This time however, can also result in great creativity, psychic powers, visions and insight. You can and should trust your intuition.
By the cold and religious we were taken in hand
Shown how to feel good and told to feel bad.
Tongue tied and terrified we learned how to pray
Now our feelings run deep and cold as the clay.
And strung out behind us the banners and flags
Of our possible pasts lie in tatters and rags.
Fiona Apple, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Regina Spektor, Peter Gabriel, deftones, Tool, Pink Floyd, Tom Waits, Carla Bruni, Polly Jean Harvey, Tom Petty, Keane, Aqualung, Tracy Bonham, Led Zepplin, The Cure, Tracy Chapman,(I met her!!), Belly, Old school Jewel, Joan Osbourne, Imogen Heap(of Frou Frou), Dinah Washington, Allyson Kraus, Phil Collins, Cool n' the gang, Esther Phillips, Eisley, David Bowie, Pocket Size, Suzanne Vega, Dick Dale, Mandalay, Ben Harper, The Beatles, Eva Cassidy, The Strokes, Howard Jones,Johnny Cash, Secret Chiefs 3, Elvis, dredg, Incubus, System of A Down, Skeleton Key, Sublime, Pete Yorn, The Redwalls, Old school Liz Phair (before she sold out!), Bob Marley, Silverchair, Sparklehorse, Cat Power, Gomez,Charles Mingus, Portishead,Stevie Wonder, Tomahawk, YEah Yeah Yeahs, Sammy Davis Jr, Lovage, Blonde Redhead, Train,The Ramones, Tricky, Ani Difranco, Fisher, Nirvana, Aretha Franklin, Massive Attack, Hall and Oates, Mazzy Star, Mr. Bungle, My Brightest Diamond,No Doubt, Sarah McLachlan, Heather Nova, Eartha Kitt, Aimee Mann, Garrison Starr, Nina Gordon, Bjork, Team Sleep,Coldplay,Meshuggah,Louis Armstrong, Prince, Patsy Cline,Chet Baker, Mudvayne,Cowboy Junkies, Sheryl Crow, Flyleaf, Nick Cave, Jane's Addiction, The Mars Volta, Gavin Degraw, Melt Banana, Heart, Emmylou Harris, Chicago, The Metric,A Perfect Circle, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Kelly Clarkson, Cibo Matto, , Sade, Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions, Ravi Shankar, Oasis, Zap Mama, Casey Chambers, NIkka Costa, Journey, Stacey Kent, Vincent Gallo, Simply Red, Morcheeba, Jamiroquai, Fischer Spooner, Janis Joplin, Al Green, Nine Inch Nails, Marvin Gaye, The Vines, Smashing Pumpkins, Four Tet, The Verve, Rilo Kiley, Tori Amos, Jennifer Charles, The Sundays, Stina Nordenstam, Pat Benatar, Joss Stone, The Shins, Aerosmith, Scandal, Ruby, Universal Hall Pass, Jose Gonzalez, More more more, those are in no particular order!
deftones
"All that you touch and all that you see all that you taste, all you feel and all that you love and all that you hate all you distrust, all you save and all that you give and all that you deal and all that you buy, beg, borrow or steal and all you create and all you destroy and all that you do and all that you say and all that you eat and everyone you meet and all that you slight and everyone you fight and all that is now and all that is gone and all that's to come and everything under the sun is in tune but the sun is eclipsed by the moon"
PINK FLOYD
Movies
Roman Holiday FUR Royal Tennenbaums Secretary Breakfast at Tiffanys V for Vendetta Amelie Adam and Steve
Everything is Illuminated
Little Miss Sunshine Waitress Walk The Line Prozac Nation Garden State How to Steal a Million The Holiday Happy Endings Feast of Love
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Easy Brave New World Domino The Notebook Pumpkin RUN LOLA RUN Crash
Factotum The Girl in the Cafe Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind BIG FISH Jesus'Son
The Jacket
Hope Floats
Kissing Jessica Stein Spanglish 21 Grams Love Actually American Beauty Memento Requiem for a Dream Being John Malkovich Inventing the Abbotts Fight Club Trainspotting Pi Rules of Attraction Anything Else Barfly Romeo and Juliet
A Lot like Love
Milk
Kill Bill -volumes I & II Discreet charm of the Bourgeoisie Frida Cinema Paradiso Acid House Say Anything Pieces of April Powder Shipping News The Man Who Cried Carrington Soldier's Girl High Fidelity Practical Magic Serrendipity Pirates of the Caribbean To Die For Clay Pigeons Lost in Translation Beautiful Girls Bonnie and Clyde Coffee and Cigarrettes Napolean Dynamite Kate & Leopald Office Space Little man Tate Breakfast Club Space Camp A Christmas Story Donnie Darko Buffalo 66 Reefer Madness,(the original) The Laramie Project Bowling for Columbine Igby goes down The Last Unicorn (not in order necessarily;]
J.D.Salinger, Arthur Rimbaud, Laure, Chuck Palahniuk, Charles Bukowski, Edgar Allen Poe, Brett Easton Ellis, Irvine Welsh, Frank McCourt, e.e. Cummings, Rumi, Lautremont,Aldous Huxley, Stanislaw Lem, Salvador Dali, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, & more!
"Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!How I wonder what you're at!Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky."
If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see? ~Alice~
Heroes
My mom who passed when I was 15 years old, she was my best friend.
She was an amazingly beautiful and giving human being. The most selfless person I've ever known, or will know.
Remedios Varo, the Surrealist Artist.
Fiona Apple, "My strength is in my HONESTY."
Frida Kahlo, "I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint."
I'm a very open-minded person who likes to have fun and enjoy all aspects of life, from Darkness to Light. I believe strongly in honesty and in being yourself no matter what. I love the Moon, Partyin', Audrey Hepburn, Surrealism, bats, elephants, exploring world religions, (Hinduism, Buddhism & Paganism especially,) finding new Music and Art, and the simple things like trees and lingering glances and WoRdS. I love Beauty, I love ARt,I love everything that is real and everything pretend that comes from THAT emotion.
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
— Albert Einstein
Words to learn to live by:
Today is what you have to work with. Today is when you can actually give life to your dreams.Today you can put those things you've been meaning to do into real, effective, fulfilling action. Today you will experience how good it is to go beyond merely planning, dreaming and intending, and to bring those beautiful plans to life.
Remedios Varo
My Birthday falls on the original Pagan Halloween, All Saints' Day:
All Saints' Day
The little men, little women, sad creatures,
today they strew flowers blue and red
on their graves, barely lit.
They act like poor dolls in the face of Death.
O! How they seem fearful and humble here
like shadows that lurk behind the black bushes.
In the autumn wind wails the cry of the unborn,
And one sees lights bobbing wildly.
The sighing of lovers dies off into the breeze
and there rots the mother with her child.
The living dance looks unreal
and strangely scattered to the evening wind.
Their life is so confused, full of dim troubles.
God take pity on the ladies Hell and Torment
and on this hopeless wailing for the dead.
Lonely wandering silent in the starry hall.
--Georg Trakl (1887-1914)
~Yves Tanguy
"the voice of blood" by Rene Magritte
My name is Mylisa, as in Melissa.
Mylisa means, "Honey Bee" in Greek ~ Sweet, but can STING;]
"There is not one glance that does not hide a secret, a story
one that is not an answer, an appeal, an explanation.
Glances so clear & pure, their depths muddied with
stains & streaks:
human algae and detritus.
Bulging, blue-green and gummy eyes,
voiceless glances, others illuminated,
glances that know how to hate and scorn,
loving and confiding glances,
glances that reveal one goal,
one wish,
glances veiled in blood
by desire."...
Then as now the decibels of nature can crush an artist's brain. I have seen it happen. So I lock the door and paint interiors. Great events. A white and dark picture would muffle the red world outside. Big bare rooms with white frozen figures, like Sodom and Gomorrah. There is opalescent light and velvet dark. Isn't that the artist's best joy, to control light? To rival the sun and moon, to turn their logic upside down with brushes and paint and monstrous egos? I am here.
~Dorothea Tanning / Birthday
The word "om" is actually an ancient symbol
with an indefinite meaning. It is often described as encompassing all potentialities and possibilities, and the moment when petty affairs are set aside for more universal motivations.
Those who are willing to open their minds...to realize that learning is a continual thing, evolution is a part of who we should be or else there is no point to life. We can learn from everyone, no matter how different we are. I want to learn and I want to teach. We are meant to be one people, one universe, one love.
my kitty broke her leg, so I was posting a picture of how her leg is doing after major surgery and insertion of plate and screws. she still has a bump there and limps. she is still not allowed to jump for 2 1/2 more weeks. Its a 5 week recovery time total...=(
happy birthday! i'm so glad i came by your page... it was very soothing for me :) i really love the owls - i love owls! :) i hope you have a GREAT day! :)
Happy almost your birthday.... i thought i better say it now in case i'm running around like a chicken with it's head cut off tomorrow... so a day early, right? but happy birthday! and the blacksheep wishes you a good one too!
well.... i mean this is a city that is huge and is slowly undergoing a renaissance. i find the decay more interesting than distressing. if detroit was funded more by the government, then many of these homes could be restored to former glory.
cool~ OPEN~MINDED people, Going HOME, (where is it again?)
Music, Not hurting myself any more than I have already, correcting my wrongs, adoring myself, saving my liver, Eating Sushi, loving someone who adores me more than their own EGO, Swimming in the Ocean and not being afraid of what’s beneath me, eating grapes, jumping on beds in crowded hotel rooms, blowing bubbles,
