by Lisa Azarmi | Oct 6, 2021 | ACCEPTANCE, AWAKENING, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, CALM, CONFIDENCE, LIFE PATH, SEA SCAPES, SPIRITUALITY, WATER, WELLBEING
“Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.” Rumi Sir John Lavery – Ariadne, 1886.
by Lisa Azarmi | Oct 6, 2021 | BEAUTY, BECOMING, BOTANICAL, CALM, GARDEN, INNER STRENGTH, INSPIRATIONAL, LIFE PATH
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” Marcel Proust Claude Monet – Waterlilies and a Japanese Bridge, 1899.
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.
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...
by Lisa Azarmi | Sep 28, 2021 | ANGELS, BECOMING, FANTASY, FEMALE PORTRAIT, FRENDSHIP, HEART, HONESTY, HOPE, ILLUSTRATION, INNER STRENGTH, KINDNESS, LIFE PATH
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive….”Anaïs Nin Laura Daub – Secrets on the Terrace.
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…...