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Doug Westendorp
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February 13th, 2021

2/13/2021

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He entered the realm of art when he discovered the subtle use of the useless.
- Kazuko Okakura
The Book of Tea


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Something Invisible

11/1/2020

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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination. 
  • John Berger, Bento’s Sketchbook pp. 9, 11, and 14
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Still Life with Window and Dried Flowers

10/9/2020

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Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita

9/18/2020

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A  friend told me this week about an artist who I had never heard of, a Japanese-French painter, who was born in 1886 and died in 1968.. A rare discovery. In fact I wish I had known about him when I was writing my Master's Thesis in 1992, as his still life paintings are the closest I've seen to what I was doing at the time. I love these flowers.

Thanks, Karen!

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"The Real within all that is real."

9/15/2020

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(C)ontemplation is . . . awakening, enlightenment, and the amazing intuitive grasp by which love gains certitude of God’s creative and dynamic intervention in our daily life. . . contemplation is a sudden gift of awareness, an awakening to the Real within all that is real. A vivid awareness of infinite Being at the roots of our own limited being. An awareness of our contingent reality as received, as a present from God, as free gift of love.

—Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation


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New Square Mandala
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Quality in the Corner of your Eye

9/8/2020

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You point to something as having Quality and the Quality tends to go away. Quality is what you see out of the corner of your eye.
- Robert Pirsig


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August 20th, 2020

8/20/2020

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When I was a child there was a TV show on which every now and then the announcer would call out, "Circle gets the square." I don't know why. But circles and squares do have a special relationship, don't they?

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The Calm Within

8/1/2020

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Until art is allowed its full and proper place in spiritual meditation, meditation itself will remain elitist, a complex and convoluted exercise for an elite minority of professional pray-ers… Matthew Fox
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Latent Wisdom

7/27/2020

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery. "More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use." ​
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July 03rd, 2020

7/3/2020

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The
elements
of
all
things,
whatever
their
mode,
observe
an
inner
order.
 

Dante


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