How do you know when you think 'blue'-

when you say blue- that you are talking

about the same blue as anyone else?  You 

cannot get a grip on blue.  Blue is the sky,

the sea, a gods eye, a devils tail, a birth,

a strangulation, a virgins cloak, a monkeys

ass.  Its a butterfly, a bird, a spicy joke, 

the saddest song, the brightest day.

from: Sacre Bleu

by: Christopher Moore

I  love kids art.  I love it all bunched up in the different hallways of probably every elementary school in America.
Im an amateur PE teacher...but being an amateur art teacher would probably suit me better.  I like the mess...the freedom, the creativity.  I'd find it more intriguing.  At least thats what Im  thinking as I sit here in my tiny home contemplating my future and what makes me happy.  Creativity makes me happy.

 lovely self portraits

this is JOEL

 The seasonal stuff is darling!!

Opps...there's an "elementary" work created by me. One of my New Years resolutions has begun..being more artistic...
Writing makes me happy.  But topics elude me...so Im taking up watercolors. This is my first attempt at a tree.

Brian and Mericar are in California...looking at property... and picking up a clunker mini van. Im already packing my bags in my head. Who knows what the future holds...I would love to have California in the mix. That would make me happy.  Im tired of the cold. So tired.  Here's wishing on the moon.

Literature was not born the day when a boy crying “wolf, wolf”

 came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf

 at his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came 

crying “wolf, wolf” and there was no wolf behind him.

 - Vladimir Nabokov

Anton Pieck

Animales lectores ilustración de Okada Chiaki

Maurice Sendak

Patricia Metola

"People without hope not only don't write novels, 

but what is more to the point, they don't read them."

— Flannery O'Connor

Albert MOORE

Edward Hopper

Heidi Berger

Károly Ferenczy

We never stop reading, although every book comes to

 an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.

 — Roberto Bolaño

Book shop in Palacios, Madrid

Christian Heuser

To learn to read is to light a fire; 

every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

- Victor Hugo

Nikolai Borisovich

There is no remedy so easy as books,

 which if they do not give cheerfulness,

 at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind. 

— Mary Wortley Montagu

1907 John Lavery

by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot 1796-1875

Edward Simmons

Károly Ferenczy 

Nguyen Thanh Binh

I can always tell when you’re reading somewhere in the house, 

my mother used to say. There’s a special  silence, a reading silence.

 Francis Spufford

 China

"1899 Laura Coombs Hills"

italy

Izsák Perlmutter (Hungarian)  In the Parlour

Philippe Jolyet

"I have good reason to be content,

for thank God I can read and

perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths."

— John Keats

Leopold Franz Kowalski

Lord Frederic Leighton 

Norman Rockwell

Pierre Paul Rubens

Torian Dixon

Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I’ve

 accomplished something, learned something, become a

 better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading

 gives me something to talk about later on… 

Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.

- Nora Ephron

Renoir

Lucie Vézina

Wishing You a Replenishing Weekend Loved Ones!!

God wove a web of loveliness,

of clouds and stars and birds,

But made not anything at all

so beautiful as words.

from: My Mothers Words

by: Anna H Branch

Léon-Augustin Lhermitte

The Dreams Machine by Antonio Javier Caparo