PORTRAITS

Healing

Posted on February 25, 2022 at 10:53 am by Lisa Azarmi / BEGINNINGS, CALM, PERSONAL GROWTH, PHOTOGRAPHY, PORTRAITS

“There comes a time when we must stop crying and wringing our hands and get on with the healing that we are so much in need of”Art Solomon, Anishinaabe Elder. Roland Reed – Portrait of an Ojibway Girl, Minnesota, gelatin silver print, 1907.

Reading

Posted on September 28, 2021 at 11:14 am by Lisa Azarmi / BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, BOOKS, CLASSIC LITERATURE, CONFIDENCE, COURAGE, FEMALE PORTRAIT, IMAGINATION, INNER STRENGTH, PORTRAITS, READING

“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who…

Inspiration

Posted on September 20, 2021 at 1:05 pm by Lisa Azarmi / 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 the people, take…

Heart

Posted on September 18, 2021 at 11:24 am by Lisa Azarmi / BEAUTY, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, BOOKS, CALM, CLASSIC LITERATURE, DREAMS, ETERNAL LOVE, FEARLESS, FEELINGS, FEMALE PORTRAIT, HEART, HONESTY, HOPE, INNER STRENGTH, INSPIRATIONAL, MOTIVATIONAL, PORTRAITS

“Write it on your heartthat every day is the best day in the year.He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the daywho allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it.You have done what you could.Some blunders and…

Becoming

Posted on September 18, 2021 at 11:15 am by Lisa Azarmi / 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.

Beauty

Posted on September 6, 2021 at 12:26 pm by Lisa Azarmi / ACCEPTANCE, BEAUTY, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, BLACK & WHITE, COURAGE, ENDURANCE, HONESTY, HOPE, INNER STRENGTH, INSPIRATIONAL, LIFE PATH, PHOTOGRAPHY, PORTRAITS, SELF LOVE, VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPHY, WELLBEING

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving…

Soul

Posted on August 26, 2021 at 12:46 pm by Lisa Azarmi / ACCEPTANCE, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, BLACK & WHITE, BOOKS, CLASSIC LITERATURE, FEELINGS, HONESTY, INNER STRENGTH, INSPIRATIONAL, MALE PORTRAIT, PHOTOGRAPHY, POET, POETRY, PORTRAITS

“Re-examine all that you have been told… dismiss that which insults your soul.”Walt Whitman H.S. Eakins – Walt Whitman 1891.

Finding Yourself

Posted on August 26, 2021 at 11:41 am by Lisa Azarmi / ACCEPTANCE, BEAUTY, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, BOOKS, COURAGE, DREAMS, ENDURANCE, FEELINGS, FEMALE PORTRAIT, HONESTY, HOPE, KINDNESS, MOTIVATIONAL, NUDES, PORTRAITS, SELF LOVE

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” George Bernard Shaw Louis Welden Hawkins – The Haloes 1894.

I have named you queen

Posted on August 23, 2021 at 2:04 pm by Lisa Azarmi / BEAUTY, BECOMING, BOTANICAL, DREAMS, ETERNAL LOVE, FLOWERS, FREEDOM, HEART, LOVE, LOVERS, POET, POETRY, PORTRAITS

“I have named you queen.There are taller than you, taller.There are purer than you, purer.There are lovelier than you, lovelier.But you are the queen. When you go through the streetsNo one recognizes you.No one sees your crystal crown, no one looksAt the carpet of red goldThat you tread as you…

Loneliness

Posted on August 23, 2021 at 1:13 pm by Lisa Azarmi / ACCEPTANCE, BOOKS, FEELINGS, FEMALE PORTRAIT, INNER STRENGTH, LONELINESS, PORTRAITS, WELLBEING

“Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.”Carl Jung Norah Neilson Gray – Exotic, 1924.

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