Generally, I laugh without trying. Except when I'm really uptight, then it's worth remembering to try. Thich Nat Han has a wonderful little exercise in which you practice smiling on every inhale (or is it exhale?) for 1 minute. Might be worth trying each way. Very sweet photo!
For a laugh, I wonder if this frosty shrub is the same thing I know as Kinnickinick or Winterberry or Arctostopholous??? Fun to say, anyway. And a great photo. Hope more of your paintings will be posted soon, too.
thank you ladies! I know these poor plants are buried in the snow now. Sandy I dont know by any other name, though they are not like the huckelberries in the lowlands. These are a small blue berry.
I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use - silence, exile, and cunning.
James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Generally, I laugh without trying. Except when I'm really uptight, then it's worth remembering to try. Thich Nat Han has a wonderful little exercise in which you practice smiling on every inhale (or is it exhale?) for 1 minute. Might be worth trying each way. Very sweet photo!
I love the look of ground frost on greens. Laughing is a very good thing.
Good to see some sunshine on the frosty huckleberries. The pond here is still frozen, even after it rained all night.
I like this quote, too:
Humor is a prelude to faith, and laughter is the beginning of prayer.
(Reinhold Niebuhr)
I could get lost in that photo, Dawn. Very nice and frosty with tons of colors. If not a laugh, then a smile, but not a frown = a better day.
For a laugh, I wonder if this frosty shrub is the same thing I know as Kinnickinick or Winterberry or Arctostopholous??? Fun to say, anyway. And a great photo. Hope more of your paintings will be posted soon, too.
thank you ladies! I know these poor plants are buried in the snow now. Sandy I dont know by any other name, though they are not like the huckelberries in the lowlands. These are a small blue berry.
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