Life offers ongoing opportunities to live a dream. To accept what comes, to live those moments completely, can prove existential ecstasy. The clock is always ticking. To waste precious time may prove the greatest of all crimes - where one is both criminal and victim.

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“No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.”
― Ansel Adams

“#Art is not for the faint of mind.”

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Life offers ongoing opportunities to live a dream. To accept what comes, to live those moments completely, can prove existential ecstasy. The clock is always ticking. To waste precious time may prove the greatest of all crimes - where one is both criminal and victim.

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"Art accesses some of the most advanced processes of human intuitive analysis and expressivity and a key form of aesthetic appreciation is through embodied cognition,"
– Christopher Tyler, director of the Smith-Kettlewell Brain Imaging Center

"#Art awakens the brain,"

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There are times when you have to let your mind go, allow it to wander, to engage is free associations and flights of fantasy.
These are building times, constructions of personal imaginationings.
These are healing times, when cares of daily life are washed away.
: art

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"Don’t spend the rest of your life contemplating the inner wonders. Begin immediately expressing your revelation in acts of beauty. That’s very much a part of our religion—the glorification, the acting out, the expression of what you have learned.”
― Timothy Leary

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Creativity is inner passion solidified, visualized. It's the conceptual made tangible, dreams made real or an appearance thereof - a freedom of being.
"We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

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"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean." - Socrates

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opens the mind.
Konst öppnar sinnet.
Урлаг нь оюун ухааныг нээж өгдөг.
Ko te Toi e whakatuwhera i te hinengaro.
Искусство открывает разум.
El arte abre la mente.
藝術打開思想。
Taide avaa mielen.
Ubuciko buvula ingqondo.
L'art ouvre l'esprit.
Umění otevírá mysl.

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The secret. A true secret is something which only one person knows. Yet some secrets are really too delicious not to share. Their depths inspire our hearts, fascinate our minds and embrace our very souls. Their mysteries make this world intriguing.
: mixed media

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In bold and frenzied strokes
a certain power is wielded,
like the sharpened stroke
of a mighty honed sword,
cutting through sinewed
layers of fragmented reality
hanging like stained windows
in a colored cathedral,
a sacred place of intensity.
: mixed media poem

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Des mystères mythiques bouillonnent à l'intérieur, des histoires de dieux et de héros, de mystiques et de fous se délectent de majestueuses escapades.
Mythical mysteries bubble inside, stories of gods and heroes, mystics and madmen revel in majestic escapades.
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With the pandemic, people need all the immune system boosting humanly possible.
A study done by researchers at U of C Berkeley showed that looking at boosts one's immune system.
I am so pleased to contribute to improving your physical health.
Stay well.

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Transformer said: the meaning of art is an unknown. Something experienced.
Artistry comes from a contradiction, a rise and fall; mastery of a paradox in an age when it was almost extinct.
Through such contradictions, strength of experience is expressed.
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The gut instinct is that is was really due to natural causes, but upon closer inspection, it became apparent there was something suspicious about what everyone was seeing.
Oddly, this mystery is still ongoing.
Just what were they all seeing? Answer: Art
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Art Heals
"Levels of depression and anxiety tended to be lower in patients undergoing chemotherapy who were exposed to visual art than in patients not exposed to visual art."
- Visual art in hospitals, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Dec. 2010
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Transformer said: the importance of is self-evident. Cultural influences play a very important role in the development of human civilizations. The arrival of certain language and concepts in a society profoundly influences the way people perceive and behave.

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It would appear that participants in the Tolerate group rated insults as less damaging than participants in the Control group did regardless of whether the latter considered that to be their counterargument. No significant difference between the two groups was noted.

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I make art. I plant trees and bushes. I grow food. I ride a bicycle frequently, instead of driving. I pick up trash in parks. I haven't watched tv in years. I love to read. I like, and write, poetry.
I believe in a Higher Power.
I am not like most people.
Very good.

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