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'HAD I the heavens' embroidered cloths,

Enwrought with the golden and silver light,

The blue and the dim and the dark cloths

Of night and light and half-light,

I would spread the cloths under your feet

But I, being poor, have only my dreams;

I have spread my dreams beneath your feet;

Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams...'

- William Butler Yeats

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A Sacred Kingfisher along Tally Ck. By Geo-Nature

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Spotlight on artist Sir Oswald Birley (1880–1952)

If you were a person of consequence in the 1920's, 1930's or 1940's, or wanted to choose a suitable portrait painter for a commission of an important member of society, then it is very likely that the artist you would place at the top of your wish list is Oswald Birley .

Capable of creating not only a fine likeness but possessing an ability to bring thoughtfulness and empathy to his work, Birley was regarded as the ‘go-to’ portrait painter of the day, a painter who would deliver a work that would capture the essence of the subject and stand the test of time.

A frequent subject of his paintings was his wife, Rhoda. Widely regarded as a beauty, she married Birley at the age of 20 when he was 41. Here is a particularly beautiful portrait made by Birley soon after their marriage in 1921. Entitled The Green Masque, it depicts Rhoda in Venetian carnival attire, her alabaster face glowing against a dark background, her eyelashes demurely lowered.

Also of note:

- Birley was the first British artist to have a studio built for him in Palm Beach in 1926

- In 1931 he painted Mohandas Karamchand ‘Mahatma’ Gandhi, commissioned by the Chief Minister of Gujarat, Sir Prabhashankar Pattani

- In 1941 he lost his right eye while supervising a demonstration: an experimental anti-tank which misfired

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That thing that you shoulda/oughta/gotta do but aren’t doing? Kiss it tenderly and wave goodbye.

Trust the gifts of resistance: Divine timing; right relationship with yourself, your soul, your rambling creativity.

Make friends with patience, with uncertainty.

Today, embrace your meandering stuttering progress. Trust your soul — it’s spinning a dance whose choreography your body knows.

- Hiro Boga

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“Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothing.”

- Tom Waits

Artwork: Ida Rentoul Outhwaite – The Enchanted Forest, 1921.

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Clever graffiti in Marrickville ✊

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And when you have an intense contact of love with nature or another human being, like a spark, then you understand that there is no time and that everything is eternal. ~ Paulo Coelho

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“Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry up, we block it. If we want to allow it its freedom, we have to allow our ideational lives to be let loose, to stream, letting anything come, initially censoring nothing. That is creative life. It is made up of divine paradox. To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one’s mouth. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down.”

-- Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Image: Sarah Lee Underwater Photography

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Cobo Beach Golden Hour, Guernsey, Channel Islands ❤️

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Dracula by ARANTZAZU MARTINEZ

64” x 38”/ 162 x 97cm. Oil on linen.

An academic painter from Vitoria, Spain. Enrolled in the New York Academy of Figurative Art (NYAA) MFA program and graduated in 2002, and then studied at the Water Street Atelier with Jacob Collins.

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Magic Carpet Ride by Raine © Inner Voice Art™

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJQku8arbCI

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.” ― Roald Dahl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4WiyxXpyZc

MAGIC CARPET RIDE

From the 1968 release “The Second” by Steppenwolf.

Words and music by John Kay and Rushton Morev

I like to dream yes, yes, right between my sound machine

On a cloud of sound I drift in the night

Any place it goes is right

Goes far, flies near, to the stars away from here

Well, you don’t know what we can find

Why don’t you come with me little girl

On a magic carpet ride

You don’t know what we can see

Why don’t you tell your dreams to me

Fantasy will set you free

Close your eyes girl

Look inside girl

Let the sound take you away

Last night I held Aladdin’s lamp

And so I wished that I could stay

Before the thing could answer me

Well, someone came and took the lamp away

I looked around, a lousy candle’s all I found

Well, you don’t know what we can find

Why don’t you come with me little girl

On a magic carpet ride

Well, you don’t know what we can see

Why don’t you tell your dreams to me

Fantasy will set you free

Close your eyes girl

Look inside girl

Let the sound take you away

© Copyright MCA Music (BMI)

All rights for the USA controlled and administered by MCA Corporation of America, INC

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Divine Delphiniums 😍✨