INSPIRATIONAL | Ravenous Butterflies

Storms

by Lisa Azarmi | Oct 5, 2021 | ACCEPTANCE, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, BLACK & WHITE, COURAGE, ENDURANCE, HOPE, ILLUSTRATION, INNER STRENGTH, INSPIRATIONAL

“When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.” Haruki Murakami – Kafka on the Shore, 2002.Ida Rentoul Outhwaite – The Storm.

Personal Growth

by Lisa Azarmi | Oct 2, 2021 | ACCEPTANCE, ADVENTURE, AUTUMN, BEAUTY, BEGINNINGS, CONFIDENCE, COURAGE, FEELINGS, FREEDOM, INNER STRENGTH, INSPIRATIONAL, LANDSCAPE, LIFE PATH, MOTIVATIONAL, PERSONAL GROWTH, TREES, UNCONDITIONAL LOVE

“We should not judge people by their peak of excellence, but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.” Henry Ward Beecher Felix Vallotton – Bridge Over the Bèal, 1922.

Becoming

by Lisa Azarmi | Oct 1, 2021 | ACCEPTANCE, ANIMALS, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, BOOKS, CHILD PORTRAIT, CHILDREN, CHILDRENS STORY BOOK, CLASSIC LITERATURE, COURAGE, ENDURANCE, ETERNAL LOVE, FEARLESS, FEELINGS, FREEDOM, GENTLENESS, HEART, HONESTY, HOPE, ILLUSTRATION, INNER STRENGTH, INSPIRATIONAL, KINDNESS, LIFE PATH, MOTIVATIONAL, PATIENCE, SELF LOVE, UNCONDITIONAL LOVE, WELLBEING

“You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose...

Fairies

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...

Transformations

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...