Found in a Christmas card

"...the trees breathe like the people in the frozen winter and even deeper...
They hold each other in their arms--branches, they hold the warmth of life in
their hearts.  In the silence of the night you could hear the tree whisper--old
legends about disappeared things, we've forgotten.  this whisper is the most
sacred sound on whole Earth.  And sometimes we walk on this Earth,
through the woods and we don't know what secret it holds...
     Believe in the tree whisper in the silence and you'll be
                                IRRESISTIBLE..."

                                                                    Aida Sabulyte

Still life: Bent objects

http://owni.eu/2010/12/15/still-life-bent-objects/

This is What You Shall Do ...

"Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body."
— Walt Whitman

How to be an artist

Stay loose.  Learn to watch snails.  Plant an impossible Garden.

Invite someone dangerous to tea.

Make little signs that say 'yes'! and post them all over your house.

Make friends with freedom and uncertainty.

Look forward to Dreams.  Cry during movies.

Give money away.  Do it now.. The money will follow.

Do it for love.  Take lots of naps

Believe in Magic. Laugh a lot.

Celerate every gorgeous moment.  Take moon baths.

Read every day.

Giggle with children.  Listen to old people.

Bless yourself.  Play with everything.

Build a fort with blankets.  Get wet.

Hug a tree.  Write love letters.

You are innocent

                                          by SARK (Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy)