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Drawing from this summer. plein air.  (like the way impressionists do it.)
I like what Pastor Rob suggested.
He suggested that I go out to a quiet place (beach, park, museum, etc.) with a notebook and pen, and perhaps, with my bible too. I'd go with the heart to pray and think. Think about what are my goals, and what will I do as the means to get to my goal. Evaluate my skills and abilities, and be intentional about meeting my goals. He says a prideful person (one who rules over his own world - like a Pharisee) creates who he is, but a child of God has his identity in God's kingdom and it is unnecessary for him to create who he is. He remembers his position in Heaven with God by the power of Christ. I can work and have a Protestant's work ethic, and also rest because I am in Christ.
I like how we can strategically work to get to our goals, of course, once my goals are known.
I am trying to figure how I'm going to go about to study (what I'd like to study), and also give myself enough room to process through my artwork. I can't say "do" my artwork, because it's not simply "doing" -- no compromise with the description to the artwork process -- but I promise, it's what is another dialogue, of me. As much as that makes sense. Then again, it's as important as breathing.
I've learned recently that participating in the arts and culture is extremely important for one's well-being. During the classical period, the Greeks loved the arts and upheld a particular culture. The Greeks used the word philanthropia to mean "love of humankind." This, in the fullness of the word during the ancient times was used to distinguish what had been granted to man alone among the animals, which was the "pursuit for knowledge in, and training given by" the arts. "Those who earnestly desire and seek these are most highly humane." The Greeks had this mentality because they believed it to be a condition of man, and therefore, it must be developed; they believed the arts were necessary for the greater good of all humanity.
And could we disagree?
Also, by root definition, philanthropy is not only for the rich to give to the needy, as commonly used today, but philanthropy, in its fullest definition, is for the good and benefit of all humanity, which is closely associated with the arts and culture. *tee hee.
alrighty, well, if i have anymore updates, i'll be sure to update. About my going-abouts of course.
 snoozing time, glazed eyes.
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| love it that spring is finally here!! A wiff of frighteningly familiar smells! hehe, guess I'm unprepared for spring.  
yjk's leaving... *sniff sniff.. 
will do more of these soon.. *oh can't wait.
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| What is this joy which we feel in order and design? Isn't it the same kind of pleasure we experience in the rhythm (which is the predictability) of music, the pattern of an Oriental rug, the measured movements of a dance, the unimprovable form of any true work of art? Our joy is in the very discipline of the thing. The discipline doesn't stifle, it gives power, it makes beauty possible. Why shouldn't it be so when we consider the glorious hierarchical order too? Each being plays its part in the music, in the pattern, in the dance, and in playing it in accord with the Creator's instructions finds its fullest joy.
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| May 9
There is a difference between an ideal and a vision. An ideal has not moral inspiration; a vision has. The people who give themselves over to ideals rarely do anything... But wherever there is vision, there is also a life of rectitude because the vision imparts moral incentive.
Ideals may lull to ruin. Take stock of yourself spiritually and see whether you have ideals only or if you have vision.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?
"When there is no vision..." When once we lose sight of God, we begin to be reckless, we cast off certain restraints, we cast off praying, we cast off the vision of God in little things, and begin to act on our own initiative. If we are eating what we have out of our own hand, doing things on our own initiaitve without expecting God to come in, we are on the downward path, we have lost the vision. Is our attitude today an attitude that springs from our vision of God? Are we expecting God to do greater things than He has ever done? Is there a freshness and vigour in our spiritual outlook?
again -- oswald chambers 
"Where there is no vision, the people cast off restraint." -- Proverbs 29:18 | | |
| Earth’s crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God
But only he who sees, takes off his shoes
The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Aurora Leigh, book 7, lines 821-24
(psss.. "Earth's crammed with heaven..." like the phi ratio and "the rest sit round it..." in a circle.. haha  )
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