Gabriel

“To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.” ― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

loong hiatus

longest lack of posting in green bean history? sad. no excuse. many sorrys.

Passione

Rumi

Suddenly the drunken sweetheart appeared out of my door.
She drank a cup of ruby wine and sat by my side.
Seeing and holding the lockets of her hair
My face became all eyes, and my eyes all hands.

W.B Yeats

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

33 Ways

Philosophy

“The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness.”

Terry Pratchett

Inspiration

need some?

Giving

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.
Jim Rohn

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Kahlil Gibran

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
Mark Twain

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
Wayne Dyer

The giving of love is an education in itself.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.
W. Clement Stone

You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
Charles de Gaulle

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao Tzu

Thats Life

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Henry Ellis

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
E. B. White

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
Arthur Miller

Whats next?

Aside from the obvious and most necessary (overdue) sleep- just curious and ready for whatever is coming next. Even though to the untrained eye I may not seem to be much better off than where I was a year ago- I feel like everything I've been through since has seriously matured me and prepared me to take accountability for myself and the direction that I'm headed. As my aunt lovingly reminded me this evening- I'm starting from "below ground zero"

So heres to breaking even again soon- and whatever is waiting for me around the next bend

"I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship." -Louisa May Alcott

Thoughts

Thoughts

via Design is Mine

Success

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. -David Brinkley

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. -Dale Carnegie

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
-Logan P. Smith

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
-Jonathan Winters

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. -Bill Cosby

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed. -Juliana Hatfield

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.
-Tennessee Williams

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction. -Al Bernstein

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. -Bill Cosby

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
-George S. Patton

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.-Winston Churchill

Visions

from the best blog ever.
Seriously.

Not Like This

So, I put the artwork up at the hospital today. Two pieces per board. Absolutely nothing like this. .

Less is More right??

Inspiration Wall 2

Going to check the mail again for more.

Quotes

Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.
Drew Barrymore

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
Thomas Paine

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
John Muir

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
Dalai Lama

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
Ansel Adams

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination full of hope.
Maya Angelou

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.
Gilda Radner

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.
Emily Dickenson

Jen Renninger

I am so blessed to have began correspondence with Jen Renninger, a talented artist and generous heart who is also coincidentally looking into work with the arts and healthcare. Her designs are so inpiring, I can't wait to see them up at the hospital. You can order some for yourself from her etsy shop, and make sure to check out her blog while you're at it.

Inspiration Boards

So tonight I started emailing artists from etsy in hopes they will donate photography for the blank cork boards on 7C- the chemo floor at UAMS. I got one positive reply already, so I'm stoked! My goal is to assemble a different one for each of the 11 rooms- to cheer up the patients and give them something to look at while they are sitting in there getting chemo, or waiting on test results, which is the other 70% of what goes on. It will also give me something productive and positive to work on while I am here in Little Rock. Wish me luck! Ill let you know how they turn out.