by Lisa Azarmi | Feb 15, 2022 | BIRDS, GENTLENESS
“Softness is not weakness. It takes courage to stay delicate in a world this cruel.”Beau Taplin Raffaello Sorbi – An Italian Girl with Doves, 1866.
by Lisa Azarmi | Feb 8, 2022 | AWAKENING, BEGINNINGS, BIRDS, INSPIRATIONAL, MUSIC
“The bitter wind blew birds like a smoke cloud into the garden. They came to rest on bare winter-boughs of a tree, filling the branches with feathered leaves. I stared at them and wondered, did they come here for me alone, to make music and undo the bleakness of...
by Lisa Azarmi | Feb 2, 2022 | BECOMING, BIRDS, FREEDOM
“Watch carefully, the magic that occurs, when you give a person just enough comfort to be themselves.” Atticus Bertha Lum – Land of the Bluebird, 1916.
by Lisa Azarmi | Dec 26, 2021 | BECOMING, BIRDS, PERSEVERANCE
“Hold on to what is good, even if it is a handful of earth. Hold on to what you believe, even if it is a tree which stands by itself. Hold on to what you must do, even if it is a long way from here. Hold on to life, even when it is easier letting go. Hold on to my...
by Lisa Azarmi | Nov 24, 2021 | AUTUMN, BECOMING, BIRDS
“…how I feel autumn’s ache.” Virginia Woolf – from a letter to Violet Dickinson, September, 1907. Étienne-Jules Marey – Flight of a Heron, 1882.
by Lisa Azarmi | Sep 13, 2021 | ADVENTURE, BEAUTY, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, BIRDS, BOOKS, CHILD PORTRAIT, CHILDREN, CHILDRENS STORY BOOK, CLASSIC LITERATURE, COURAGE, DREAMS, ENDURANCE, FAIRY TALES, FANTASY, FEARLESS, FEELINGS, FREEDOM, HOPE, ILLUSTRATION, INNER STRENGTH, LIFE PATH, SKY
“Don’t be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.”Oscar Wilde Nadezhda Illarionova – Thumbelina, Fairy Tales: Hans Christian Andersen.
