still playing with daisies...

Just another image from my "daisies" photoshoot... :) Have a wonderful week, dear bloggers!

i can fly in my dreams

Another assignment for Creativity Boot Camp. The word prompt was "fly," and the obvious birds were not cooperating, so I thought of figurative flying and came up with this still life. I live a small, quiet life, but I can fly when I enter the pages of a good book. And I found this quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson which I love:

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination."

grow

I'm participating in Creativity Boot Camp -- an online course to nurture creativity. The assignment today was "grow." One of the discussions that grew out of the assignment was this:

"Can art be taught?"

My take on this is that techniques and rules can be taught, but to merely become proficient in technique is not art. Don't you think that art demands emotion, spark, soul... ? Art does not display; it speaks. From the heart.

I'm almost ashamed to write that out loud. Does that sound terribly new age, psychobabble-y? Tell me what you think. :)

Our Light

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

Maryanne Williamson

Used by Nelson Mandela in his 1994 inaugural speech

just messing around

Yeah, I'm still playing with the peonies. lol I used a few actions here -- one by Florabella and another by Michelle Black. And I'm getting curious about making up my own actions... like I need another gigantic waste of time... :)