Charred bones in the calabash bowl

BAD! Kitty Art Studio

Thoughts for the day...

(above) the new picture of the nebula 'the Eye of God'

as seen from Hubble...last month

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"Hope is a state of mind, not of the world . . .

Either we have hope or we don't;

it is a dimension of the soul,

and it's not essentially dependent

on some particular observation of the world

or estimate of the situation.

Hope is not prognostication.

It is an orientation of the spirit,

and orientation of the heart;

it transcends the world that is immediately experienced,

and is anchored somewhere beyond its horizons ...

Hope, in this deep and powerful sense,

is not the same as joy that things are going well,

or willingness to invest in enterprises that

are obviously heading for success,

but rather and ability to work for

something because it is good,

not just because it stands a chance to succeed.

The more propitious the situation

in which we demonstrate hope,

the deeper the hope is.

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism.

It 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

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Today I work with hope in my corner.

My fever pitch of working means I don't have a lot to report about.

I see my kids as if they are waking dreams, floating through the studio with kisses and needs to be met. I hug my mate as if he were a visitor, surprising me with his arrival upon my doorstep. I eat every once in awhile and sleep too little. I stand under the running water and forget why I am there. I am tired and my body aches. Possessed by the effort to work harder, driving myself to the finish line of something to be proud of. Waiting for no one, taking no prisoners, allowing no distractions...the paint flows like wine, and my creative thoughts pile up on themselves like driftwood on the shore.

I just work harder is all...I don't stop.

I know that some of these works are the best I have done to date.

Others... not so much.

I have little or no interest in them after they leave my easel...

I do not care what happens to them now...orphans they are.

I am just glad to be rid of them from my minds eye;

like the feeling of removing a large thorn from under a nail.

I look forward to the showing,

but I hold no expectations for the event itself,

the final outcome of this labor. For the end result is not what I am after.

Living in these moments of being one with the work that is what ignites my inner flame...that is what matters most...being burned alive in the flame.

Being burned Alive.

Charred bones in the calabash bowl.

I am grateful to work myself hard and press myself for my best.

Today I work for the knowing. I work for the joy.

Leaving ego on the side of the road, with her good buddies fear and doubt telling them all to find a ride with someone else...there's no room at the inn for you...

Beat it.

Waking in the morning,

smells of oil paint and sweat are

like honeysuckle on a hot summers day,

sweet and inviting.

Today I work with hope in my corner.

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I hope you all have a good day...

I am off to the salt mines.

Happily swinging my pick and shovel.

Heather

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Art, Actions,Thoughts and Prayers

BAD! Kitty Art Studio

Art of the day...

and the thinking behind the work.

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'Prayer for the Living'

18" X 24"

oils

For Sale Here

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I needed to read this message again.

This came to me as this painting

came to being, and today I

share it here with you.

This is a much shorter version

of the whole message,

but the part that I

needed for today's work.

I hope you enjoy.

***

With but a shift in perception,

what you thought was miles or lifetimes

away may be but feet and moments

away or already right in your arms.

Words are the least part of communication;

energy and action speak far more truly.

You do not need to import greatness from another;

you just need to act on your own.

You already know.

You always have enough energy to do the things you love.

You always have enough time to do the things

that Spirit would have you do.

You are doing better than you think you are.

You are in integrity when the life you are living

on the outside matches who you are on the inside.

You are lovable not for what you do.

You are lovable for who you are.

You are not desperate, so don't act as if you are.

You believe that if you had more time,

you would have more peace.

It's the other way around:

if you had more peace, you would have more time.

Creating more time is not logistical, but attitudinal.

You can tell what you believe by what you get.

You can afford to be generous because

you have access to an unlimited supply.

You can be helping many people,

but if you are not helping yourself,

you have missed the one person

you were born to heal.

You can never love too much.

True loving only multiplies itself

and returns to bless us many times over.

You can't get a right brain answer to a left brain question.

Ask your heart, not your mind.

You can't get to heaven by putting other people through hell.

You can't prepare to be great, because you already are.

You can't worry love.

You cannot achieve perfection.

You can only discover it.

You cannot fix yourself because you are not broken.

The more you try to fix, the more you find to fix.

Only wholeness heals.

You cannot gain worth by achievement.

You can only claim it by self-recognition.

You deserve only love because you are only love.

You do not need to gain or import powers,

for you were born with infinite power to create.

You simply need to claim

and use the power you already own.

You don't always need to know beforehand.

You don't have to make anything happen.

Just line up with what wants to happen and let it.

You don't have to make someone

else wrong for you to be right.

You don't need to beg for what you already deserve.

You don't need to get anyone else

to agree with your truth.

You just need to live it.

You don't need to make good things happen.

You just need to let good things happen.

You don't need to punish yourself for love.

Or sex.

Or money.

Or your past.

Or anything.

You have more options than you recognize.

You know where you belong.

Your good flows to you most easily when you are

relaxed, open, and trusting.

You only live once but it's forever.

You own what you own not by money or force,

but by your love for it and your inner connection to it.

You were born a genius, and you still are.

Claim it and it will work wonders for you and the world.

You were born to enjoy your life, not repair it.

You will be paid for your services in

proportion to the depth of your passions for them.

You will find truth more quickly

through delight than gravity.

Let out a little more string on your kite.

You will help more people through your

delight than through your suffering.

You will not get rid of your pain by glamorizing it.

You will not solve lack by getting more.

You will solve lack by recognizing abundance

where you once saw lack.

You're not a realist unless you believe in miracles.

Your attention is the strongest currency at your disposal.

Whatever you invest it in will yield significant returns.

Your core being is your pure being.

Your entire world could open up with one expansive thought.

Your fears of oblivion are unfounded.

Your first and greatest contribution

to world peace is your own.

Your future isn't what it used to be.

Your gift to the world is not what you do.

Your gift is your happiness.

Your history is not your destiny.

Your inability to adapt is not a sign of your weakness,

but the strength of your inner guidance

to remind you where your passion lives.

Your issues do not retard forward movement;

they propel it.

Your journey of relationship is an

adventure to reunite with yourself.

Your thoughts do not create reality,

but they do create your experience.

Your thoughts do not create reality.

They either permit it or not.

Your true power lives

in acting with a whole heart.

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Let it be.

Have a great day everyone,

Heather

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