by Lisa Azarmi | Sep 26, 2021 | BEAUTY, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, BOOKS, CALM, DREAMING, DREAMS, FAIRIES, FANTASY, FEMALE PORTRAIT, FORESTS, ILLUSTRATION, IMAGINATION, INDIVIDUALITY, INNER STRENGTH, INSPIRATIONAL, MIDSUMMER, MOONLIGHT, NIGHT, OPENING, SPIRITUALITY
“She was beautiful, but not like those girls in magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she...
by Lisa Azarmi | Sep 23, 2021 | ACCEPTANCE, ADVENTURE, ANIMALS, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, BOTANICAL, BUTTERFLY, CHILD PORTRAIT, CHILDREN, CHILDRENS STORY BOOK, CLASSIC LITERATURE, CONFIDENCE, CREATIVITY, FAIRY TALES, FANTASY, FEELINGS, GARDEN, HOPE, ILLUSTRATION, IMAGINATION, INDIVIDUALITY, INNER STRENGTH, INSPIRATIONAL, MAGIC
“‘Who are you?’ said the Caterpillar.This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, ‘I…I hardly know, sir, just at present …at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I...
by Lisa Azarmi | Sep 20, 2021 | ACCEPTANCE, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, BLACK & WHITE, BOOKS, CALM, CONFIDENCE, COURAGE, ENDURANCE, FEARLESS, FEELINGS, FEMALE PORTRAIT, GENTLENESS, HONESTY, HOPE, ILLUSTRATION, IMAGINATION, INDIVIDUALITY, INNER STRENGTH, KINDNESS, LIFE PATH, LIGHT, MOTIVATIONAL, SELF LOVE, SERENITY, SPIRITUALITY, WATER, WELLBEING, WOODBLOCK
“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days…...
by Lisa Azarmi | Sep 20, 2021 | ACCEPTANCE, ANIMALS, BEAUTY, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, CALM, COURAGE, CREATIVITY, ENDURANCE, FEELINGS, GENTLENESS, HEART, HONESTY, HOPE, IMAGINATION, INNER STRENGTH, INSPIRATIONAL, KINDNESS, LOVE, MALE PORTRAIT, MOTIVATIONAL, PHOTOGRAPHY, PORTRAITS, SPIRITUALITY, VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPHY
“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward...
by Lisa Azarmi | Sep 18, 2021 | ACCEPTANCE, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, BLACK & WHITE, CALM, CLASSIC LITERATURE, IMAGINATION, INDIVIDUALITY, INNER STRENGTH, INSPIRATIONAL, LIFE PATH, PHOTOGRAPHY, PORTRAITS, SEA SCAPES, SERENITY, VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPHY, WATER
“They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.” Hermann Hesse – Siddhartha, 1922. Guruji – Lake Chapala, Mexico 1929.
by Lisa Azarmi | Sep 17, 2021 | BEAUTY, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, IMAGINATION, INSPIRATIONAL, MAGIC, PAINTING
“The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves”.Kahlil Gibran Jan van Eyck – Man with Pinks (detail), 1436.