Encoded Within You

“We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released”

Jean Houston

Image One: Lyubov Popova, Painterly Architectonics with Yellow Board

Image Two: Cel Overberghe

Beyond Fear

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed - Michael Pritchard

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way - Babe Ruth

Image One: Richard Serra

Image Two: Mark Leuthold

Act on Ideas

“An idea that is developed and put into action is more important 

than an idea that exists only as an idea.” 

Buddha

Start Here

Our Visions begin with our Desires.

Name your desires and draw your visions boldly.

Audre Lorde remix

Images: Wangechi Mutu

Long Tail Thriving

"Perseverance is not a long race. It is many short races one after the other." When running multiple short races simultaneously, keep in mind that stamina comes from the effort to endure and the ability to care for one's self along the way: No marathoner has ever won a race without stopping periodically for water and replenishment.

Walter Elliot remix

Rocks in Water by Jag

Seaweed Splash by Wendy Middlemass

"Stars of Everything"

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.

Panjali

Images: Truths 2 and Stars of Everything by Thornton Dial

For Sonic Stars see Stars of the Lid

Conquering Fear

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela

Old Woman Bay by Mandy Budan

Fighting Cock by Charlie Lightcap

Mindfulness Makes the World

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world.

Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

Brain by Kazuya Akimoto * Should be viewed at full scale - the details are stunning.

"Pelvis" by Georgia O'Keefe

Wild Sky & Joy

"Joy delights in joy.” Ignite yourself with a smile, a gentle giggle, a deserved laughter and feel it ripple throughout your spirit into the purview of the day.

Shakespeare extended

Wild Blue Yonder Richard Luschek

Square Swirls David Kozlowski

Compassion's Cure

I came upon a doctor who appeared in quite poor health. I said, 'There's nothing that I can do for you that you can't do for yourself.' He said, 'Oh yes you can. Just hold my hand. I think that that would help.' So I sat with him a while then I asked him how he felt. He said, 'I think I'm cured.'

Conor Oberst

Take some time this week to literally or figuratively hold someone's hand as they seek to heal or recover from life's challenges. Extend compassion to the life of another knowing that compassion heals not only those we express it towards, but ourselves as well.

Right Image: Composition by Wayne Sleeth
Left Image: Abstracted Water Color by PopArt Machine

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Louisa May Alcott

Image 1: Painting Sky by bdmaroon
Image 2: Painting Quads by Blueberry Mom

Speaking in the Butterfly Effect

*, originally uploaded by lilion (J.Meszoly Beatrix).
'All change, all production and generation are effected through the word'...and bear affects throughout the world. Be aware then, of the world at large in which you live, and know that you too contribute to the creation of what is seen as well as what is possible.

Leopold Senghor Maroon Mashup

Image 2: Violet by Harwell

Trust Your Divinity's Intentions

Si se Bondye Ki voye. Li pey fre ou.
If it is God who sends you, she'll pay your expenses.

What appears impossible is only waiting for your faith to ignite its realization in being. When it's the divine who has called you to your task Trust that the Divine will help you see that task through. No matter how bleak the everyday of it appears, no matter how unlikely the end goals may seem, Trust the Divine's call and have Faith that what is needed will be given in kind.

Haitian Proverb avec Maroon Remix

Image 1: Raoul Mathieu Untitled
Image 2: Haiti Arts Cooperative Spirit Flag

Bursting Wild Joy

"All things can be used even anger" so "Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear," because Joy demands your brave and wildly vibrant attention.

Audre Lore/Zora Neale Hurston/ Maroon remix

Image 1: Litang Monastery China by Kevin Kelly
Image 2: Pigments at market in India

Exuberant Choices

Georgia, originally uploaded by judy stalus.

Everyday is a field of paths, of directions beckoning, of succulent calls toward the unknown. Choose your actions as if they will bind you to forever. Yet live through your actions knowing they are but momentary steps toward the transformative, for our paths to peace are infinite and transcendent.

b.d.maroon

Artwork 2: Fork in The Road by Patrick Smith