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Lord Love A Duck

Lord love a duck is my favorite expression when things have gone way out of expectation, focus, and become a FUBAR. This is the right here right now of it. After 15 hours of computer insanity. This started out as a desire to make a comment about sketching, or not sketching. All I wanted to say was it seems I can no longer sketch. And post the photo from my Android phone. Simple, eh? Not if your phone doesn’t communicate with your computer or visa versa. But at last. 15 hours to load a photo. Right. So now I have apps and programs and photos all over the place. I don’t understand how something can be on your computer but you can’t find it. And then you can’t get rid of the things you’ve added that don’t work anyway. And no doubt contaminated your world.

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Medusa

This is the Medusa sketch for the statue created by Luciano Garbati. I know I posted about this statue earlier. And I can’t sketch it. Turns out that drawing, sketching, like anything else needs to be kept up just like everything else.

So this is the quit time. Now returning to the real world…

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Softly

Good night~Have a nice week~ by Youssef Elboukhari photographer

Youssef Elboukhari photographer

All returns are different. Like everything else, like people in their lives, each living within his own prism, or his own wheelhouse. How we walk, how we smile or not, what books we read… All of the things we touch and think on through the days, then how we return to sort thru the pages and the rubble. Soft. For me right now, returning from holiday, I return softly. And here is a photo that can be entered, but only if it is softly. Pull the oars through the water, but don’t disturb it. Make no waves or splashes. Let the water drip from the oars as they are held above the water, and be silent. Listen.

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Break & Back

I had decided to take a serious break from all of the computer things: my Facebook page, the Read L.E.Hansen page, emails, Tumbler, and this blog. I’m glad that I did. But in the end, to this very day, I began to miss writing down my thoughts here. So I’m back. The only apology I can offer is that I didn’t say in advance what I was doing, or rather, not doing. Not that I always do know. It did turn out to be an interesting experiment. I didn’t miss anything but the blog. Coming here and laying out this or that. This photo pretty much catches what was happening, and how I was feeling. I did get books read, and I did work on the new MS. But as I said, I did miss coming here and now I feel as if there’s much I need to catch up on. And so I shall.

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Pause

Roksolana Lishchynska‎Modern Art 20th Century. Conversation starter · Follow · 23 hrs · Felix Heuberger (Austrian, 1888 - 1968) In the moonlight(Im Mondenschein), 1930.

Roksolana Lishchynska‎Modern Art 20th Century. Heuberger (Austrian, 1888 – 1968)                     “In the moonlight”(Im Mondenschein), 1930.jpg

Those things which stop us on the way to the other side of the page, to the next scene. Those things touch something within. There is something in this that is nameless and timeless. I would have a most difficult time trying to describe it. It is both cold and warm, and it keeps the eyes and heart lingering on what it captures. It is of a moon and water and trees and some ground. That is all. But that is not all there is.

Pause a while and dwell with me.

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Sweet Dreams

May all beings be peaceful. May all beings be happy. May all beings be safe. May all beings awaken to the light of their true nature. May all beings be free.

~ Metta Prayer ~ posted by Tao & Zen

Photograph by Gregory ColbertTao&Zen

Photo by Gregory Colbert