May your coming year be filled with magic and good madness. I hope you 

read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't 

forget to make some art- write or draw or build or sing or live as 

only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself. 

Neil Gaiman

art 

is 

everywhere

but you have to see it

   

dear best friend, 

i love you more daily. i wish you could 
see yourself the way i see you and i wish
 you could love yourself the way i love 
you. you are perfect in your own definition 
of the word. i wish you a world of opportunity, 
a home full of love, a mind filled with 
questions, and word-happy, kissed-often 
lips. you deserve it all. 
KA 

  

take into account that

great love 

and

great achievements

involve

great risk

dalai lama

thank-you stranger, for your therapeutic smile

she liked to pretend she was a prism

like things could pass through her

and be beautiful

i'll take your word

words are all we have to understand each other 

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light, and shadows.  Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.  If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.  Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent.  And don't bother concealing your thievery- celebrate it if you feel like it.  In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: "It's not where you take things from- it's where you take them to."

-Jim Jarmusch

   

Bow to the mystery of your own unfolding 

--

Dance with your own intention 

             

             

            

 

To learn and to think 

to think and live 

to live and learn

this always, 

with new insight, 

new understanding, 

and new love

touche

        

"I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger 
as reason. I am so thirsty for marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I cannot transform 
into something marvelous, I let go."  
-Anais Nin 

                              

                  

My dream is to walk around the world. 

A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. 

A camera. 

A notebook. 

A traveling paint set. 

A hat. 

Good shoes. 

A saucy red dress for the occasional spanish salsa. 

          

 

Look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.