WINTER SOLACE

 WINTER SOLACE? 

The White Stag in lower right appears.

Planets and stars print a stellar skyscape.   Whitecaps of clouds and snows are possible~ "perhaps."

"All Is Possible With The Mind~" Paul Lam, M.D, Tai Chi Expert~

Light Returning~ 

WONDERLAND

Winter Wonderland~ not quite snowy here yet....thinking back early fun romping with my gold and white Collie, Laddie.  Powdery white of winter snow and black trunks of trees, sticking up sharply like a real life pen and ink drawings~ come into my memory.

Lad scooped up the snow with his long nose and ran like the wind, bounding with joy, his coat dusted with snowflakes~ He shook them off vigorously. 

Wonderworld

Here we are, a bit before winter~

Wanderworld:  There I go, a- wanderin' again....

Wander and Ponder

Chessie, determined.  She has an agenda~

Memories of future-past.

* "All Is Possible With the Mind~" Paul Lam, M.D., Tai Chi Expert

Blogger Search Key Words:  Collies, Cats, Animals

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Wander and Ponder, Chessie walks her timeline

What Kind of Animal Are You?

Resources

* Dr. Paul Lam, Tai Chi for Health Institute

Music

Time After Time, Cindi Lauper, singer, songwriter.  "I have a suitcase full of memories I almost left behind....Time after Time~" 

Dahlis Roy: Visionary Artist, Author, and Tai Chi Practitioner

Photos: 

Lad and Me, taken by my father

Chessie, a cat like no other

EMOTIONAL CHAMELEON

* Back Through the Years I Go Wandering Again," Coat of Many Colors, song by Dolly Parton.

"Back through the endless picture files I GROW, wandering again...."  It's fun to wander around in pictures, through the years and eons of time and timeless....

** EXO~ When I came across the above photo, I thought of XO (blog post Sept. 2020)!  My imaginary EXO planet....emitting rays of lights and mist, in the blue-green frequency....or sometimes in the electric blue-violet spectrum...ever changing, having no fixed 'home" or location in the cosmos, a wandering photonic light and color experience.

XO story was fun to write....several friends wrote to tell me they had "invented" their own EXO Planet/Moon/ Star System. YEA!  Use the powers of imagination.  One person told me that her XO friend would be filled with plants, trees, vines, and lushness of all kinds, a "pathless woods" fun to explore and be called "Serenity,"  a haven to peace for the mind and spirit.

Someone else said that "I choose the moon!"  

"Why?"

"Because it is quiet and I can be alone there."

I glanced up at the silver full moon a few days later and chuckled, it looks like the charcoal grey smudge of a profile of a horse's face, nose and forehead pointing to your right as you view. The mane flowing out to the left.  You can tell~ horses are on my mind a lot~

*** One morning I tried some French music by Edith Piaf, La Vie En Rose, just to give a bit of energy.  Surprise, I found myself humming along!  My work went smoother and easier.  Music has a lovely power all its own.  Every tune different...every interpretation expansive. 

**** "Nature Brings to Every Time and Season, a Beauty of Its Own,"  William Wordsworth, Poet

I saw Orion rise the other evening, winter is on the horizon. 

It is good to see the stars again, clear and bright. Old Friends~

Blogger Search key words: astronomy, constellations, creativity, imagination, music

Related Posts:

** XO! Create your own imaginary EXO Planet. (Sept 2020) 

All Alone in the Universe

Sirius Blue

Resources

Music:

* Dolly Parton, singer, songwriter, actress, storyteller.  Quote from song, Coat of Many Colors  

***  La Vie En Rose, song in French by Edith Piaf

Night Song as I write: Peter Paul and Mary, 500 Miles, The Best of Peter, Paul, and Mary

Poetry:

William Wordsworth, English Romantic Poet, "I gaze upon my inward eye, which is the bliss of solitude."

Dahlis Roy, Visionary Artist, Author, and Tai Chi Practitioner

Images by Dahlis

Exo Light, photo

Crystal Dish with Speckled Shell, photo

Sketch of Orion, red pen

WINTER GLOW

Standing on the cusp of winter 2020, I thought back a year....back to a brilliant gold sunset sifting through spider webs of leafless trees, a living moment.  Patches of crystal ice droplets touched and glittered on the branches.  Mounds of far away snow appeared in the near distance.  

Quickly I grabbed small canvas for an instant pocket painting~ 6" by 6."  Pocket paintings are fun and portable, a take-with event.  The small stretched canvas on wooden stretcher bars meant instant hanging on a wall, a frameless frame. Three simple pure colors and a small chisel brush.  A moment captured in time.  I can even remember the diamond dust of air born crystal ice flakes drifting about in the frigid still air outside.  

In moments the light shifted and faded....gratitude for viewing the scene.  Happy to have chased and captured a memory.

How have I changed?  Or Have I? 

"Nothing Gold Can Stay," Emily Dickenson

"There is a Pleasure in the Pathless Woods," Byron

"Friendship is a Sheltering Tree," Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Time it was oh what a time it was....long ago I held a photograph, preserve your memories...." Simon and Garfunkel

Bogger Search Key Words:  Nature, Trees, Creativity, Poetry

Resources:

Pinkalicious, PBS kids cartoon, episode, The Painting Pixie, small paintings hidden in unexpected places, a Pixie grows her wings.

Music: 

The Memory of Trees, Enya 

Bookends album, Simon and Garfunkel, Bookends Theme

Dahlis Roy: Artist, Author, and Tai Chi Practitioner 

Image:  oil painting by Dahlis

Winter Glow, small pocket painting

AUTUMN LIGHT

*  "Everything the light touches....."

Have you ever watched the sunlight shift over your favorite paintings?  The strong vibrant full sun, the soft glows, the backlighting, the subtle colors and shades, wonders yet discovered and every day is "new" because of the ever shifting light.

With weather and colors lighting up in turn, seasonal paintings parade in our living room.  Each painting choice different, each fun and enjoyable.  Paintings emit unique energy all their own!  

Clouds and Water, reflections and refractions, trees shimmer and glow, soft detail.  Here the random brush strokes play and frolic, blending, at a distance into a more unified "wholeness" of the scene.  

Experimenting with French Impressionism technique is enjoyable and, depending on the lighting, you never know just what colors and shadows may appear.  Every Moment Different

Shadow Shift

Looking at the Abbey, I feel the blues "lighting up."  Until I saw the subtle light effects, I had forgotten just how many blue touches had entered the rocky sculptured look of brushstrokes and textures, of sky and sea.

Now I am spending more time with nature this year, observing clouds, plants, trees and light first hand, I feel more connected, more relaxed.  Daily "nature breaks" reset my mental computer and help body strength as well.  Feeling the breeze and touching leaves brings the heart mind into a unity of peace and reflection.

** "Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees."  Karle Wilson Baker

*** "A million oak leaves await within one forest."  David B. Axelrod.

Blogger Search Key Words: Autumn, Impressionist Painting, Architecture

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Angels in the Architecture

A Different Light, Painting Mont-Saint Michel, The Artist Meets the Archangel

Resources:

* Quote from The Lion King (1994) Walt Disney Productions, Mufasa talks to his cub Simba.

** Quote from Karle Wilson Baker from a message on a teabag, Traditional Medicinal Organic teas.

*** Quote from Another Way, poems derived from the Tao Te Ching, one of many books written by David B. Alexrod, founder of CHI, Creative Happiness Institute

Music: 

The Memory of Trees, album by Enya

Aspenglow  song by John Denver

Dahlis Roy, Visionary Artist, Author, and Tai Chi Practitioner

Images by Dahlis

Backyard in Autumn, sunlight flickers over oil painting

Impressionist Sketch, oil painting

Abbey Church in Normandy, (708 AD) below Mont-Saint-Michel, oil painting.

"The Archangel Loved Heights" from the book Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams (1909)

ONE MOMENT

 * "This moment is unlike any other moment.

Don't even say how it is similar."

** Color Wheel

Blogger Search Key Words:  Poetry, Color, Creativity

Resources:

* Quote from Another Way, Poems derived from the Tao Te Ching, p. 9, by David B. Axelrod, founder and director of CHI, Creative Happiness Institute. www.creative happiness.org  

** Color Wheel, Painting by Zoe, printed with permission

Dahlis Roy:  Visionary Artist, Author, and Tai Chi Practitioner

Image: Painting by Zoe

** Color Wheel, 

STOPWATCH AND LISTEN

 

Breezing through a stream of pictures lately I heard the words, or what I thought were the spoken words, "Stopwatch and listen...."  I saw an image of a stopwatch in my imagination.  A trainer timed a sprinting horse on a practice track:  flashback The Black Stallion (movie).

Only later, I recalled OH, what was said/meant was three separate words: "Stop, Watch, and Listen...."  

* "....You're talking to me, I can't hear what you said..." Lyrics from Time After Time by Cindi Lauper

Words, for me, are the last form of communication I pick up. It's pictures first~

 Then I took a music break and tuned in to Cindi Lauper singing her song Time After Time and playing the dulcimer.  Backed by violin, piano, and guitar accompaniment, softly they played, and not all performing at the same "time," relaxation is "hear."  A total experience, a showcase of sounds, yet not competing with each other.  As the song unraveled, I read the closed captions!  I seldom hear words or lyrics to songs, rather concentrating on melody lines and frequencies of the vocals and instruments.  Was I surprised?  

Lyrics spoke directly to "Me!"  I sat up straight.

*....Caught up in circles, confusion is nothing new...."

* "Suitcase of memories, Time After Time...."

* "Sometimes you picture me, I'm walking' too far ahead....You say 'go slow,' but I fall behind.  And the second hand unwinds." 

 I get it!

"If you're lost, you can look, and you will find me, Time After Time...."

"....Watching through windows, you're wondering if I'm OK...."

"....Secrets stolen from deep inside, and the drum beats out of time...."

".....I got a suitcase of memories, I almost left behind...."

"TIME AFTER TIME"

It is interesting, in a shift of time and experiences, you can feel the meanings of songs changing and melding into outreaching vistas you never even imagined.  

** It's Only Time, Enya

*** "Are not flowers the stars of the Earth?" Clara Lucas Balfour

STOP AND GROW

Key Word Blogger Search: "Time"

Related Posts: The Painted Word

 Resources:

Music:

*Cindi Lauper, singer songwriter, sings Time After Time, PBS Salute to Grammys, Oct 2020, Cindi's song salutes Ken Ehrlich, receiving the Trustees' Award for producing Grammy, Emmy, and a few White House concerts, and for documentaries of The Beatles, Elton John, Prince and others.  Various artists also perform music.  Behind the scenes awards are given for technology in music, and areas of soundstage producing. Other Songs by Cindi include True Colors and (who could forget) Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.

** Enya, singer songwriter, relaxing and edgy Enya presents The Celts, Watermark, The Memory of Trees, the Only Time Collection and The Very Best of Enya.

Song Farmer, Michael Johnathan, painter, songwriter and author, Woodsongs, Old Time Radio Hour also on PBS. RFD TV, and Facebook 

Film:

The Black Stallion and the Black Stallion Returns, a horse and his boy

Back to the Future, Michael J. Fox (Marty McFly) looks at "time."**

*** Flower quote by Clara Lucas Balfour, message on a tea bag from Traditional Medicinal Organic Teas.

Dahlis Roy: Visionary Artist, Author, and Tai Chi Practitioner

Images by Dahlis

Time Clocks

Hand Crochet Circle Design

Total Eclipse of the Clock, "and the second hand unwinds..."

Windows and Lace

White Violets, memory of spring

CHANGE OF FOCUS

* Poem Contributed by Isabel Jackson

Change of Focus

Full moon on the cusp of September

rises behind cloud wisps.

All day the feathers of mackerel sky

(never long wet, never long dry)

dominate the cloud scape.

Late summer, the fireflies have gone

but crickets with their rhythmic chirping

make up the evening soundscape

as night comes on sooner and sooner.

Summer clothes, passe, at least on some days

as we log hot-weather memories away,

a little sad that summer is soon past

We shift our focus to soon-coming autumn.

What is your change of focus as the seasons meld together?

Yesterday we gazed up to see the patchy orange and green trees.  Around noon the half moon was still out in daytime!  We stared in wonder as the sun, now to the south, made a bright white glow on the moon's left side.  On the right side of the half moon, a "blue" horizontal line emerged veiled in very thin clouds~ 

Blogger Search: poetry, creativity, writing

Related Posts: Poems by Isabel Jackson, published with permission

Resources:

Cat's Purr Music, CD and other formats:  Chet Day's Cat, provides binaural beats and calming purring with musical background and nature sounds.

Total Meditation: Deepak Chopra's 91st book!  choprameditation

Dahlis Roy: Visionary Artist, Author, and Tai Chi Practitioner

Images:

Looking Glass, photo by Dahlis

Pink Event, photo by Judy J., photo printed with permission

Night Lights, photo by Rob, photo printed with permission

Early Autumn, photo by Dahlis

 

BIRTHDAY BLUE~

 Hello Again, Tt's Birthday Time Again~

Celebrating the 10th Birthday of Out of the Blue! 

 "Imagine"~ nearly 400 stories have been published and enjoyed.....since YOU went live on Sept 26, 2010!

* PATTERNS Show Up

Sometimes you were multi colored and misty~ mysterious colors appeared showing texture: tiny dots in dim light.   Why was this?

Many Animal Friends Came

Rocky Says Happy Birthday!

What Next?

Snow Leopard: It's Snow Joke

Crystals Glowed Blue in the Light~

Angels Came~

** "From the Soul~ For the Soul" You Came, Out of the Blue!

***Emile Zola once said, "If you asked me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you, I came to Live Out Loud!

ULTRA BLUE!

Most Popular Posts on Out of the Blue:

Tonal Vision

Lavender Blue

Light Returning

Many Thanks to contributors and countless readers worldwide~

Related Posts:

Stars and Snow, Spirit of Phoebe, Phoebe is a Spirit Cat

*Patterns

Rocky's Road, Rocky's Birthday Photo Above

The White Blackboard

The Blank Page

Writing Out Loud

What Kind of Animal Are You?

Silent Speaking

A Strong Clear Vision

The Painted Word

Wander and Ponder, Chessie walks her timeline

Resources:

Create your own unique and beautiful blog, it's easy and free   www.blogger.com

Thanks to Google for new and improved Blogger Interface

* Patterns: photo from blog story

** Quote from Dawna Gillespie, Lubbock TX, on Texas Country Reporter, RFD TV, 9/11/2020.  Copper and Brass Artist, Dawna says "Each one is unique, each piece has its own story."

*** Emile Zola, quote: also from Texas Country Reporter, interview with artist Enedina Vasquez, Visionary Artist, San Antonio, TX, 9/11/2020 "Living Out Loud"

Dahlis Roy:  Visionary Artist, Author, and Tai Chi Practitioner

Images by Dahlis except  Rocky's Birthday

* Patterns, photo misty light

 Rocky's Birthday, photo by Zoe, printed with permission, Rocky's Road blog post

Snow Leopard, pastel painting

Blue Crystal Colors, photo

Angel, photo

Out of the Blue, oil painting

XO!

  XO?  What does it mean?

When I was a child my Mom and I played XO writing skills, up and down, cross ways, sideways, backwards.  I wrote everything backwards, even my name.  I see that XO backwards is OX!  That too.

Sometimes I saw X's and other designs painted on barns, cross beams on barn or stall doors might have an "X" shape.  

Then there is X the Owl and O the Owl, characters on * Mr. Roger's Show Neighborhood show and Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood (cartoon) on PBS TV.  

Cat Silhouette:  "owl ears"?

One time I got a letter,XOXOXO it said at the end...."Love" symbols my Mom added.

**And then, there are EXO planets~ ! Space Junk, Dark Matter, Vibrations, Frequencies too many to mention, Space Dust, Asteroids, the list is endless.  Photons, particles/waves of light! Interference patterns and florescence~ You gotta love it~  Colors Unlimited! 

Let's Get "Sirius" here~ and have some fun.

If you created an EXO planet custom made for you, what would yours be? Your "planet home?" or a base for wandering adventures? Who would be with you? If anyone?

I would wander the cosmos, no home base, at random, and at various speeds.  If I had an EXO planet (like a cosmic art studio) the ethereal light would be various shades of blues from cobalt to cerulean, from phthalo blue, to French Ultramarine, with threads of silver mix....and  bits of lapis lazuli~ particles.  XO's The Name!

*** Making Waves

** Photons~ "sailed away into the wild red [or blue] yonder....."

Out of Earth Experiences

XPECT THE XPECTED

Related Posts:

No-Thing-Ness

A Strong Clear Vision

Wander and Ponder

Our Christmas Puppy, get Sirius! (2012)

On Beams of Light

Magic Numbers

Tonal Vision, the power of music and frequencies in our lives

What Kind of Animal Are You?  "Who RU?"

Resources:

* Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, (PBS.org) and recently cartoon, Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood PBS KIDS.org.  Mr. Rogers' got his TV start at WQED Pittsburgh, PA, the first PBS station.  

** Neil deGrasse Tyson, book (2109) Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, new worlds expand. Quote (p. 58) "sailed away into the wild red yonder." 

Dahlis Roy:  Visionary Artist, Author, and Tai Chi Practitioner

Images: Photos by Dahlis:  Aspen Lodge, Colorado, "#108" a sacred number for Buddhists, Tai Chi Yang Long Form is comprised of the 108 synchronized movements. Some say, in India, the frequency of OHM is 108 Hz

Cat Silhouette, Mrs. Harris in shadows, "Who R U?"

Infinity Numbers on a stove clock in sunlight

On Beams of Light

*** photo by Judy J.  Making Waves (blue waters) published with permission

MARVELOUS

"In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous," Aristotle

"Nature does not hurry, yet all is accomplished,"  Tao teh Ching, Lao Tzu

Seeing is Believing

Believing is Seeing

Dahlis Roy: Visionary Artist, Author, and Tai Chi Practitioner

Photo by Dahlis

Imaginary Mountains

NO-THING- NESS

No-Thing-Ness?  What does this mean?  If anything~

* Years ago I drew a card from a deck along with friends also drawing cards at random.  Twice I "picked" No-Thing-Ness.  Who could ask for anything more?  Or Less?

Nothingness: 
a meditative state where the mind is clear and at rest and may receive images, dreams, or pictures, stories, poems, inspirations or "nothing at all~ " All are Correct.

** "Nothing comes from nothing, nothing ever should...."

A cosmic cosmos?

No-THING-ness?  
A state of being.  How can I achieve it?  If ever?
Things: Stuff, Data, Shells, Rocks, Crystals...Paintings, Drawings, Yarn and Sweaters, It's all random....Notes on paper, "Take Note"

"My Stuff My Way!" I shout to myself~

The Schedule of No Schedule~

The Time of no Time~

"Days and Nights Meld Together....."


*** "Turn around and say good morning to the night.... they know not if it's dark outside or light...."

Between Dark and Dawn....

It feels like Sunday?  But it is Monday?  A haze of days....


 
I "realized" gradually and recently that my "life" had shifted into a different way of thinking....a more scheduled and left brain type of planned increased activities.  Wonderful for physical exercise!  My hands, arms, legs and feet got stronger!  I had ability to stay awake all day instead of bailing out for a two hour nap in the late afternoon.  How did this happen?

And then....I acknowledged slowly that my creative and connective life had all but vanished....Why?  I no longer felt like calling a friend or being on the internet.  The minutes I grabbed at night, sometimes late at night, provided very little "inspirational or creative energy" to even write a fun blog post....The "easy part" of my life, the visions and dreams and paintings and writings of my right brain had shifted....to the left.
Scheduled "details" and seemingly endless tasks replaced "fun and easy."

I remembered "school" and "jobs."  I recall the fun moments but also the extreme weary feeling I felt:  then and now. 

Emotional Fatigue

Bricks and Mortar




Mum's Machine Shop Mum Ain't Here!
Remember, I do easy work....laundry and dishes.  I love being at home "the great indoors"....an expert in precision and timing..."timed machines...." Purring right along at a "Schedule," all in order.



So, I sat down to relax with "easy watching TV."  I picked up Woodsongs + coming in from Lexington KY.  Loved daydreaming through it and noting the quality of talents, ancient instruments, expert musicians AND near the end of the show, host Michael Johnathon, director, producer, and musician mentioned the "artist" in changing times.  He refers mostly to musicians but I pricked up my ears and came into concentration.  Michael's comments apply to all kinds of artists, in all fields.  Such as the artists' ability to rapidly switch from left brain to right brain activity in ever changing and unplanned times "and keeping your creative side prominent."  

How? I silently asked


Bits from the interview with "Bill" from Bill and the Belles, "retro strings" group and Michael Johnathon.

Bill: A big challenge...."is... to take time for my creative side.  Find that balance...."

"The Just Right," I thought silently.

Michael: Switching [rapidly from right to left brain] "is like having two full time jobs at once."
Your creative side and presenting side are "all consuming" both sides "actually competing for that energy."

"That's Exactly It!" I shouted silently to to myself~ I am not switching "at all" between tedious routine tasks to easy creative work and play.  My fun side, made of light and color, had vanished into No-Thing-Ness.

"I Get It!" The repetitive detail work is "taking out" a lot of my creative energy and outreach.  So, I basically shut down most of my "extra" creative enjoyment to get the physical energy I need to do the increased tasks at hand in changing times known as "The Daily Inbox."



Little Jars All in a Row....

What a great insight Woodsongs show provided!  
And so "tonight" I set aside some "Time" to write, enjoy, reset, and reconnect with my creative inner artist, writer, painter, and photographer.

"The easiest timeless zone I know...." so far



Bit Reading:  Every night at bedtime I set aside 1-3 minutes to open a book at random and read one positive sentence or a short paragraph.
Last night I read:

"You can't make this stuff up,"  **** Neil deGrasse Tyson



Everyday I reinvent myself
I'll figure this out as I grow.

Blogger Search Words:  Music, Creativity

Related Posts:  
Tonal Vision, The power of music
Timed Machines,
Memory Jar, jarring my memory
A Strong Clear Vision
Soul Deep
Rest Reset Reflect
Bits 'n' Pieces
In Search of Anna Kate, Anna Kate is the horse on the mountain pictured above



Resources:
* Debra Basham and Joel P. Bowman, Ph. D, Imagine Healing LLC, qualified healing help in many areas.

**** Neil deGrasse Tyson, Quote "You can't make this stuff up" from the book Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (2019)  Series TV The Cosmos

Working Within, Self Care Solutions, by Jen Ashton, M.D. various formats

Deepak Chopra, M.D., choprameditation

Paul Lam, M.D., Taichiforhealthinstitute online Tai Chi instruction provided by experts, Tai Chi for Health

Yang Jwing-ming, Ph.D, YMAA.com tai chi, qigong, (energy work) online instruction also books, novels, and more

Music:
** The Sound of Music:  "Nothing comes from nothing, nothing ever should, but somewhere in my Youth or Childhood, I must have done something good"

*** "Turn Around and Say Good Morning to the Night...They know not if it's dark outside or light..."  Elton John (music) and Bernie Taupin (lyrics) song: Mona Lisa's and Mad Hatters

+ Woodsongs, Michael Johnathon, director, producer, musician, painter, and author.  PBS.org, RFDTV, Facebook. The "Old Time Radio Hour" airs around the world.  This episode first aired May 2020: Bill and the Belles Valerie Smith and Liberty Pike. and The Woodsongs' Kid.  Woodsongs.com:  archives, teaching tools and more. Musicians in a changing world. Michael's Art Work: http://www.michaeljohnathon.com/art

Roger McGuinn founding member of The Byrds:  Folk Den. archival history of individual folk songs,  Woodsongs episode first aired Nov. 2017. Roger performs and comments. 

Rusted Root: Back to the Earth from the album When I Woke (1994), song of the day/night

Dvorak's New World Symphony No 9 in E Minor conducted by George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra:  "Largo" is playing tonight, peaceful yet edgy.  

Dahlis Roy:  Visionary Artist, Author, and Tai Chi Practitioner

Images
by Dahlis 
Blue Light Reflections, photo
Anna Kate, oil painting
Artist at Work, the painting Cheetah
Bricks and Mortar, photo of sandstone bricks
"Little Jars all in a Row" photo, color and light

Photo by Rob
Lakeview Moonset. reflections~

COLORS IN A CUP

Years ago I wrote a post about a dream I had: Pour Yourself a Cup of Colors....later I saw the cup of colors in my living room and quickly snapped the shot!  A living vision came to life.

In the dream I was sitting in in an outdoor sunny setting on a high balcony at a white circular metal table.  A figure in a long white filmy dress appeared in the dream.  She was sunny and smiling.  She brought with her a blue and white teapot and there were two blue and white teacups for us on the table.  The angel figure poured tea into the cups.  Instead of tea, rainbows of color and light poured into the cups!  Joy!   Smiles!

"Random Bits of Data are floating in....."  I think in bits and pieces of thought and action, mostly pictures stream by, still frames, slideshows, and actions fast or slow in various slices of life memories... 

Bits of Conversations are coming in:

"I am the place 
where fear and trust sit side by side
waiting to be born...." Debra Basham (Aug 5, 2019)


"Think, but not too much."
"We are all one in our human story," William Emery, M.D.


"The universe works differently than is commonly supposed," Mildred


"Imagination is more important than knowledge," Albert Einstein


"Let go of schedule, outcome, or agenda, and the universe takes care of the details,"  Deepak Chopra, M.D.


"Practice with spirit, got it?"  Jou,Tsung Hwa, Math and Tai Chi expert


"All is possible with the mind."
"All?"
"ALL,"  Paul Lam, M.D. Tai Chi expert

"Bring your mind from the outside of your body to the inside...." Dr. Yang, Jwing-ming, Tai Chi, Qigong expert


"Look at Yonder Misty Mountain....What it's been like being you?"  Donovan Leitch, singer songwriter


"I keep you warm in my heart~"  Louise Watson R.N.

"Bring me the Sunset in a Cup," Emily Dickenson, poet


Pour Yourself a Cup of Colors~



Resources:
Quotes from Friends Printed with Permission:
(Debra Basham, William Emery, M.D., Mildred, Louise Watson, R.N.)

Other Sources:
Albert Einstein, books, TV specials, theories of relativity, "It's all relative...."

Deepak Chopra, M.D. Chopra Meditation, online help in search of centering, calm, focus, and creativity, books, newsletter

Jou, Tsung Hwa, books The Dao of Meditation and more

Dr. Paul Lam, books Born Strong and more, taichiforhealthinstitute online courses and instruction

Dr. Yang, Jwing-ming, Taijiquan Theory, book by Dr. Yang.  YMAA.com online instruction, many books and novels

Donovan Leitch, singer songwriter, painter, poet, Donovan's Greatest Hits

Emily Dickenson, Poet

Dahlis Roy:  Visionary Artist, Author, and Tai Chi Practitioner

Photo by Dahlis
Cup of Colors, 2015

SOUL DEEP

What does soul mean?

I pondered and began to write, letting words choose themselves, the most fun aspect of creative writing.  Written colors paint themselves.

Diamonds of light on the beach


The soul is the shape of...actually many shapes and sizes.  The soul lives in all creatures great and small through timeless time.  Souls live in oceans, streams and ponds, fields, mountains, and clouds.  The soul is nestled in the fern and the flowering plant, the grasses, the mushrooms, soils, and root systems.  Souls thrive in the grasslands, the desserts, the ice: melting and solid.  Winds, gentle and strong, make up the soul.  

Grass Forming Seeds


The soul is in every mineral, rock, and crystal, every grain of sand...every cloud every mist, every storm.

Every Dark, Every Dawn....

Every Photon

The soul lives in meditations, in dreams, in deep rest.  The soul radiates in imagination and creative energy, in scientific experiment, in research and discovery, in healing and recovery, in awe and wonder.
  

The soul is beyond limits, a plan without boundaries.  A pathless plan is the soul, always a surprise.  The soul is ever shifting in radiant colors, visible and beyond the visible spectrum.  The soul vibrates in frequencies, audible and inaudible.  


The silent voice of the soul is intuition.  

The soul is an evolving door: specializing in * "paradox, humor and change."  We are not sure about the "humor."



** "Where is the soul?"

"Where is it not?"

Resources:

* Quote from the book The Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman

** Quote from Oprah Winfrey Show, Interview: 

Oprah: "Where is the soul?"
Gary Zukov, "Where is it not?"

Oprah Winfrey, OWN and more

Books by Gary Zukov include:  The Seat of the Soul, The Dancing Wu Li Masters and others

Inspirations:

Neil De Grasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, The Cosmos, TV series

Deepak Chopra, M. D. Chopra Meditation, 21 Day Meditation Experiences and others, Chopra Center newsletters and more

Tai Chi, Qigong Paul Lam, M.D., taichiforhealthinstitute.org, online instruction, newsletter

Dr. Yang Jwing-ming, ymaa.com, books seminars and more, Traditional Chinese teachings

Music
Wind and Mountain by Deuter, calming, meditative, ideal for Tai Chi, Qigong, or Yoga practice

Dahlis Roy:  Visionary Artist, Author, and Tai Chi Practitioner


Photos by Dahlis:
Diamonds of Light on the Beach
Grass Forming Seeds
Energy Rocks
Blue and Green Vibrations
Coffee Cup with Stripes of Light
Turquoise and Blue with Sprinkles