Sometimes, changes are a good thing!!!
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There have been so many changes in the last three years that have been
challenging.I've been fighting sadness daily.Truthfully, I'm so ready for a
wonderf...
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Color pencils painting.
Here is another colored pencils painting.I done this one, two or three years ago. At that time I was practicing with colored pencils, and decided to do one from a picture I had and wanted to paint it for quite awhile in acrylic, but decided to do it with colored pencils instead. This was my second one in that medium. I had done another previously to this one but a friend was moving away and ask if he could have it.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Quiet Lake Scene
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Reflection on books and bookstores.
By some of my photos above,you can see I love reading. As a matter of fact my three girls love reading as well.My interest in literature is vast. I like mystery,science fiction,adventure, and now there is so much new kind of literature on the market there is too much to say here.
Bookstore,
A bookstore appears simpler and more modest than it really is. Orderly shelves of books line the walls,the air is quiet and still, employees who seems thoughful and even a little grave, tend the cash registers and give advices or direction. (Avid readers of books are widely viewed as subdued type,not exciting)
Ah ! but there's the illusion.
Avid readers of books are people whose mental life is complex and seething with passion.
Likewise, a bookstore is a treasure throve of intense pleasures already known,mingle with exquisite pleasure as yet unsample.
The cover of a simple volume is really a trapdoor opening onto a vortex. To begin a book is both to hope and fear that you will be swept away by the mind of another human being.
The difference between a good bookstore and a bad ones is that a good bookstore invariably satisfies a reader's craving for mental nourishment. A bad bookstore only satisfies the craving of publishers to sell as many with as possible of a few formula product.
Our country is full of wonderful bookstores. Every bookstore is a unique interpretation of the endless promises to all bookstores. Just being there is irresistible, alluring, a warren of interesting thoughts that invite the browser deeper and deeper,tempting you toward abandonning the outside world entirely. Making your purchase is almost a disappointment because then you have to leave.
But then leaving any bookstore is hard because a bookstore is one of the few places where all the cantankerous, conflicting, alluring voices of the world co-exist in peace and order, and the avid reader is as free as a person can possibly be because she or he is free among them.
PS. I wrote this quite few years ago after I joined the Flin Flon Writer's Guild. I still enjoy looking at books, and find out what is new in literature.
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