There is an artist named Henry Darger that painted these most unusual paintings in his room in Chicago all his life and never showed anyone. Then he died and the landlady went in and the rest is history. Now is his famous and his work...

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Feng Shui works because it makes order in your life. If you know where everything is in your house and where it goes, it will give you power. Power because you aren’t spinning your wheels looking for everything all the time. I just cleaned out...

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My head is s storm of ideas in the morning. I have had all night of being asleep (but figuring things out).  When the morning comes, it is pretty much a stream of new plans. I almost always write in the morning after I first...

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Having a spouse is a great wonder in life. You can tell them anything and they must listen or at least look like it. You know it really does not matter whether they are or not because if they aren’t at least you had a...

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Is the best time to jump on a train when it is standing still, or when is starts to move? You don’t really have time to wait ’til you feel unafraid. the train starts moving and you have to jump on or forget it. When...

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Sometimes paintings can be the simplest thing. A few quick lines and a color wash. There is a temptation to overdo it and it is gone. The beauty of the painting is gone in a second  if you over think it. This happened  last week....

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Martha Graham said “Discipline is freedom.” That may be fine and good for a dancer but an other artists dont have to worry about that. They are free spirits. Yeah right. No artist is a free spirit. They are totally moved, not by a whim,...

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Few birds look as glorious as the peacock. What an outrageously beautiful animal. It is not necessary for them to be so but what a delight it is to see them. That made me think about living. Living life like a peacock would benefit everyone...

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The significance of the blue butterfly in my latest painting goes back a long way. When I was a young painter I always wanted to paint things that were what I wanted life to be like. I was not concerned with what I saw so...

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