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Liberate

Aug 24, 2009

This guy always makes me happy. “Whatever you made yourself in the past, that is what you are now. It is you, who, by the secret, invisible traces of your own past actions, have been controlling the power of your present actions. It is you who, through the law of cause and effect that governs your actions, ordered yourself to be punished or rewarded. You have probably suffered enough. It is time now for you to parole yourself from the prison of your own past undesirable habits. Since you are the judge, no jail of suffering, poverty, or ignorance can…

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Art Journal LOVE: Pastels & Pyrotechnics

Aug 23, 2009

Peace & Love.

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One Cool Chica: Séraphine Louis

Aug 22, 2009

This is Seraphine Louis, and I absolutely adore this portrait of her. I’m mesmerized by it. She is how I picture myself as an older Creative Juicy version one day. Maybe it’s the hair…or how she loves to paint tiny little details. Something. But, before yesterday on Twitter (thanks BlissChick!), I had not known about this very cool chica. And now I want to learn everything I can. Here are a few of her paintings…and what is written about her on Wikipedia HERE. Alongside her arduous day jobs, Séraphine painted by candlelight and largely in secret isolation, until her considerable…

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