I'm here to show different facets of beauty, explore perceptions, express what is on my mind and in my heart, and share my love of poetry and the visual arts. Life is a fabulously rich experience because of beauty, love, pain, sympathy, passion, compassion, and the full range of human feeling. Art and life in their infinite connections is what I love to share with you. It is all beautiful.

When you are here, I hope you find something that touches you in some way.

images of women in art morphing beautifully from one to the next--simply stunning!

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Peggy Lee singing "From This Moment On"

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women to worship...
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When I die, I hope to find myself in a lush, enchanting modern garden with cherry blossom petals floating in the air all around. Walking towards a lovely white temple, I find inside awaits the divine Marlene, an incarnation of the Goddess, lounging on a splendid silvery chaise longue. The light surrounding us shimmers, the room sparkles like a cavern of opal, and the air is scented with sandalwood and roses. Music more beautiful than any earthly song floats through space. She smiles, inviting me closer.

"Sit, my darling, and we will discuss life...and death." she says. And so we talk...until I must move on.

"Only connect! Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect…."

E. M. Forster

"The risk it took to blossom outweighed the risk it took to remain in the bud."

Anais Nin



"I am aesthetically obligated to show the world beauty not out of vanity and not because I want to be beautiful, but because the world needs beauty--even when the world is no longer aware of its profound longing for it."

Meret Oppenheim, Surrealist



"Joy and sorrow are inseparable...together they come, and when one sits alone with you...remember that the other is asleep upon your bed."

Kahlil Gibran



"There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening
That is translated through you into action,
And because there is only one of you in all time,
This expression is unique.
If you block it,
It will never exist through any other medium
And be lost.
The world will never have it.
It is not your business to determine how good it is,
Nor how valuable it is,
Nor how it compares with other expressions.
It is your business to keep it yours, clearly and directly,
To keep the channel open.
You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work.
You have to keep open and aware
Directly to the urges that motivate you.
Keep the channel open.
No artist is pleased.
There is no satisfaction whatever at any time.
There is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction,
A blessed unrest that keeps us marching
And makes us more alive than others."

Martha Graham to Agnes DeMille




"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 most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? ...Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you...

It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

Marianne Williamson




"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."

Vaclav Havel




“We all need a splash of bad taste.”

Diana Vreeland




“With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun.”

Ella Wheeler Wilcox




“Our life is frittered away by detail…Simplify, simplify.”

Thoreau




“Everything the same; everything distinct.”

Zen proverb




“The human mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.




“A man cannot say 'I will write poetry'. Not even the greatest poet can say it, for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this power arises from within, like the color of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of our nature are unprophetic either of its approach or departure.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Defense of Poetry”




“Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is someone who can only find his way by moonlight and whose only punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”

Oscar Wilde, "The Critic As Artist"