by Lisa Azarmi | Mar 21, 2022 | BECOMING, LOVE, LOVERS
“Love is real only when a person can sacrifice himself for another person. Only when a person forgets himself for the sake of another, and lives for another creature, only this kind of love can be called true love, and only in this love do we see the blessing...
by Lisa Azarmi | Mar 20, 2022 | BECOMING, CONFIDENCE, HAPPINESS
“Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can; all of them make me laugh.” W.H. Auden Abram Arkhipov – Smiling Girl, 1920.
by Lisa Azarmi | Mar 10, 2022 | AWAKENING, BECOMING, HOPE
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add colour to my sunset sky.” Rabindranath Tagore – Stray Birds. Felix Vallotton – Sunset at the Andelys, 1924.
by Lisa Azarmi | Mar 9, 2022 | ANIMALS, BECOMING, HONESTY
“Thorns may hurt you, men desert you, sunlight turn to fog; but you’re never friendless ever, if you have a dog.” Douglas MallochThérèse Schwartze – Portrait of a Young Woman with Puck the Dog, 1879-85.
by Lisa Azarmi | Feb 23, 2022 | AWAKENING, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS
“When she transformed into a butterfly, the caterpillars spoke not of her beauty, but of her weirdness. They wanted her to change back into what she always had been. But she had wings.” Dean Jackson Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson – Butterflies,...
by Lisa Azarmi | Feb 23, 2022 | AWAKENING, BECOMING, METAMORPHOSIS
“I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.” Anaïs NinRudolf Eickemeyer, Jr. – Evelyn Nesbit, 1901.
