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one of my paintings done with watercolor crayons
celebrating the art of paradox
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delving into the wisdom of absurdity in whimsical way
this blog is about paradox.
through my questions, i hope to encounter the paradox within belief, that place where there is not one answer but many contradictory ones.
each question, each drawing is an invitation to join me in allowing what appears absurd to take us to a wisdom beyond linear thinking.
as long as we question, we are free. free to see, to feel and to express who we are. and to connect collaboratively with one another.
About Me
- anne artist
- i am a painter who began my career as a child coloring outside the lines of my coloring books. i am a writer who started out by composing adventure stories while riding my stick horse around the backyard. as a child, i got in trouble for asking too many questions...i question that.
you can find my cartoons in this online magazine!
http://thoughtsonsale.com/
here is the link to my photography blog about simplicity:
on a clear day she could see forever
one of my paintings done with watercolor crayons
"the emperor's new clothes" by hans christian andersen
this fairy tale has been a companion to me as i have traveled through my life.
briefly, it is about an emperor who was deceived by two tailors who said they were making a set of clothing out of a "dream" fabric. in reality, they used no fabric at all. to make their scam complete, they announced that only those who were wise enough would be able to see the beautiful clothing. and so, no one, not even the emperor, admitted to being unable to see it.
wearing his new "clothing", the emperor paraded through his kingdom. no one questioned his appearance; no one wished to appear less than wise.
until a small child asked, "why is the emperor not wearing any clothes?"
so it is that i ask, if i question rather than believe i am wise, what will i see?
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30 comments:
machines were mice and women were lions once upon a time, but now that it's the opposite, it's twice upon a time
don't know where it came from, though
then i'm really curious about thrice upon a time...
my blog and i are glad that your comments have returned today....that twice upon a time thing......
I have gotten so tired of that "thing", that i had to let it go....ALL of it
Now, there is just what i want to see and be.
"Of all the stars I admired...
drenched in various rivers and mists....
I chose only the one I love..
Since then I sleep with the night.
Pablo Neruda
so if i let go, will something new come to me?
if i hold on, can newness enter?
ahh, neruda....
yes......just let go....give up.....don't just fall.......DIVE into the unknown...just listen.....just let go....just love
other than this.....no comment.
stART hearing the heART
pay no attention to the man behind the curtain
"just love".......is it possible to let go without this?
Yeah, but not many people want to talk about that...the love is the hopeful part, and everybody likes that. The other part is.....well.....sure you don't wanna just love?...you know....the warm toast thingy.
so there is no hope without love?
but then so often we choose anger.....
aint that the truth!!!! I used to beat myself up because I couldn't love enough.....I'd get angry....oh my...now I just get angry....and I just love...and the one don't mean the other aint so. in the midst of the love AND the anger...there is hope.....the "trick" is the "and"...ya gotta have em both...the dark and the light....hey...you're no stranger to the paradox.
perhaps paradox is that home i must lose my way in order to find.......
"and".....a lovely word we can speak in a language theoretically all of us can understand.
yea, I never could just keep on the sunny side,
and
you can be right, if i can be right too!
and
yes
i almost saw you
maybe the man behind the curtain was a distraction
no, he is real, because the doggie bit my ankle
dogs are preferable when they whisper.
and cats are preferable when they don't scratch your head off
better a dog whispering in your ear.
that's the way I feel
of course, don't dogs whisper in a language known only to them?
ya gotta be a "love-dog" to hear em'
well, i wouldn't want to miss what the dog whispers in my ear. am glad i don't have to be a scratching cat in order to hear it.
whew......me too!!!
maybe there really is a simplicity to life after all.
just let go
just listen
just love.....
and dance with the love-dog moan
the dance of life?
the dance of life!
that its more like a nighmare once must one only once a lesson!
and to have a nightmare, one must be asleep.....not awake dreaming of happily ever after......
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