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Staying at the Camelback Inn Resort in Scottsdale Arizona was like visiting another planet. A planet called Paradise. Maybe some people would disagree but living in an unreal world can be very healthy…especially when you’re coming from a place called New England where the Spring that you longed for all winter was nothing more than a [...]
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“KEEP YOUR LOVE OF NATURE, FOR THAT IS THE TRUE WAY TO UNDERSTAND ART BETTER.”
~VINCENT VAN GOGH
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Lines Written in Early Spring…by William Wordsworth
I heard a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sate reclined, In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind .
To her fair works did Nature link the human soul that through me ran; And much it grieved my heart to think what man [...]
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Being in N.Y.C. for a few days was like diving into a pool and doing 50 laps…I’m tired but I feel great. The Franklin Hotel on 87th St. was just as described in the book ” New York’s 100 best little hotels” by Allen Sperry. …small but very comfortable rooms. The king sized bed was much [...]
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“What was any art but a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself~life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.”
~WILLA CATHER~ from “The Song of the Lark”
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Each year in late winter my neighbor prunes her forsythia bushes and then delivers a bunch of tall branches with tight buds to me. I consider it a gift of hope.
When I opened my eyes this morning and looked out the window to see snow showering from a white sky I was a bit discouraged [...]
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I’ve always been drawn to Russia. I’m easily pulled into Russian novels, I love Russian Ballet and Dr. Zhavigo is one of my favorite movies. Books by Anton Chekov and Leo Tolstoy are on my bedside table so that I can pick them up to read before drifting off to sleep at night . I [...]
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“The artist has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time; he has to look at life as he did when he was a child…The first step toward creation is to see everything as it really is, and that demands a constant effort.”
~Henri Matisse
My granddaughter Anna is just two [...]
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