SILVER/BLUE INSPIRATION

 "WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR...."

SILVER

BLUE:

"LIKE A BOLT OUT OF THE BLUE...."

SILVER

From the stars we came.  

Silver, in the night of Sept 23,1985.  That's 36 years ago!  How can that be? You came in a waking vision of light beams from the full moon flickering on my wall through the window.  Breeze blowing gently through the trees created a "Butterfly,  Angel, Dove" shape evolving figure.  Waves of light inspired me, I grabbed a notepad and wrote and wrote about the ever changing light.  Later, I painted you, one brush one color with white canvas as "white space" instead of paint.

Later a friend suggested "That's a Book!"  And so, Silver Butterfly Create a Vision was born, gradually and over time you came to life in bits and pieces, of dreams, paints and words/worlds of adventures.  Fun and questioning, forests and mountain tops, clouds and rain a blend of action and rest.

BLUE

Blue, you came to me in a bolt of blue, I "saw" a figure of a giant blue butterfly in a Tai Chi class as we imagined a "white black board" and "what might appear on it?"  After class I grabbed a paintbrush and hastily carved out the mental image on canvas before it vanished. Again, one brush, one blue color, and leaving white canvas as white space.  Then I wrote to a friend in the UK, she answered.  "I have been seeing a blue butterfly in front of my eyes for several days now!"  Where was the source, she wondered? 

With help and encouragement, OUT OF THE BLUE went live on Today Sept 26, 2010 as a blog on Google's Blogspot.  My whole world of butterfly wings expanded and grew to inspire creative thinking in a positive way for readers and writers, photographers, and musicians and dancers, teachers, and students and more to create their visions and expand vistas of sunrises and sunsets, of cosmos and clouds of light, visible and invisible.

Thank You!  Birthday Girls~ Silver and Blue for your wonder-full world of limitless imagination fun, awe, surprises. change, and outreach.  Have a Blue Ribbon Celebration!

I Had A Dream:  I am walking down in an art gallery, all alone (I like that) and my paintings and prints through the years are lined up, displayed on both sides of the long hall.  I greeted each painting and drawing, sketches, coded notes and scribbles with smiles and delights.  At the end of the hall, there was a there was a very large white canvas resting on a wooden easel.  On it, someone had scribbled in black paint with a big brush:  

PAINT YOUR DREAMS, DAHLIS  

and so it is~

WHITE SPACE:

* "I honor change and welcome it," Debra Basham   Do I ?

** "Think, but not too much," William F. Emory, M.D.   I overthink a lot

*** "I am calm  I am quiet"  Neither, but working on it

**** WHITE SPACE, do nothing, even  30 second bursts can help reset the brain.  Getting Easier!

+ Nature Walks Are Much Better Now

Gratitude

"When You wish Upon A Star, Your Dreams Come True~"

Dream Big!

Resources:

When You Wish Upon A Star~ song of long ago.  

* Debra Basham, Imagine Healing, Healing Touch Therapy, and more, with Joel Bowman, Ph.D.

** William F. Emory, M.D., medical knowledge, "Science and art are one~"

*** "Calm and Quiet" a friend suggests this

**** White Space, prescription for wellness segment, Jen Ashton, M.D., ABC Medical Advisor GMA 3 Sept 2021

+ Nature Walks, "Nature Does Not Hurry...." Tao teh Ching  

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Silver Butterfly Create A Vision. Out of the Blue blog, various references

The Blank Page

A Strong Clear Vision

Silent Speaking

Wander and Ponder

Stopwatch and Listen

Attitude/Gratitude

A Jar 

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

Paintings by Dahlis:

Silver, oil on canvas, Silver Butterfly

Out of the Blue, oil on canvas. Blue Butterfly 

White Space, blank triangle canvas, easy and fun...."everywhere the light touches," The Lion King Walt Disney Productions

ATTITUDE/GRATITUDE

 Attitude? Gratitude?  What's That?

Blue Vase, Blue Lace Agate and Quartz

Lately I have been thinking:  

"I am Calm"

"I am Quiet"

And picturing those attributes in my inner self.  The "quiet" is more difficult than the "calm!"

Blue, naturally is my go-to color of choice, imparting energy and quiet combined.

Butterfly Wind Chime Named Iris

* Then I saw a short health tip.  I pricked up my ears:  

The Gratitude Attitude

 

Being Grateful Actually Increases:

Improved Immune Function

Less threat Sensitivity in terms of brain response

Fewer aches and Pains

Better Sleep

"I can do that!"

This is working!  "Today I am grateful For...."

name, write, or think your favorites

"Imagine music and singling in your inner self."

I feel more positive.

I am grateful for "Today" and "Tonight" as they unfold~

I am grateful for "first Light in the morning."

I am grateful for the fragrance of fresh coffee.

"I am in perfect health!"   Think and Believe! 

** "Let go of schedule, agenda, or outcome, and the universe takes care of the details~"  Deepak Chopra, M.D. online meditation, music therapy, and more 

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Tonal Vision

A Strong Clear Vision

The Painted Word

Fully Present

Silent Speaking

Resources:

* Jennifer Ashton, M.D, GMA 3, ABC TV, "Prescription for Wellness" Sept 6, 2021

** Deepak Chopra, M.D. online meditations and music to improve your wellbeing.

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

Photos by Dahlis

Sparkle Plenty

Iris the Windchime 

Light Speed

AWE AND ORDER

The awe is here...the order? 

Not Sure!

* "Already Done~" in the cosmic sense....Say "Yes" and nudge the story forward.

 Suspended Animation~

String of Pearls Poems/Images/ "Color by Technicolor"

Open your Electronic Scrapbook and Have Fun with Words/Worlds

Butterfly Lights, glass colors in door

Sinking into Calm and Quiet:  both are necessary

Deep Time

Deep Rest

Deep Space

Deep Water

"Depth of Fields~"

"I see a field of Black and White horses!"

Time Out~

Deep Reset

** WHITE SPACE 101

An Opportunity for Creativity

"Spend time doing nothing, thinking nothing."

"Can help brain and cognition."

"Even 30 second bursts can work."

*** Phoebe's Angel Sketch

Light and Time

A friend calls and talks:  "I am writing but it isn't clear yet...."  

"I'll REFINE when it's TIME~"  

**** I hear bits of music: "It is the evening of the day...I sit and watch the children play..."

TIME IS ON MY SIDE

Blogger Search: Creativity, animals, drawing, painting, photos, sketching, knitting and more

Related Posts:

Black and White Horses

*** Phoebe's Angel, Stars and Snow Spirit of Phoebe, Phoebe is a Spirit Cat

Time Lapse Memory

Stopwatch and Listen

The Painted Word

Bits 'n' Pieces

Resources:

* The Complete I-Ching, Alfred Huang

** GMA 3 ABC TV. Aug 26, 2021, Jen Ashton, M.D., White Space 101, an Opportunity for Creativity

Music:

**** Rolling Stones: As Tears go By, and Time Is On My Side, classics from the Stones: remembering Charley Watts, drummer

Meditation:

Deepak Chopra online

Tai Chi, Qigong, Yoga, integrative exercises: 

Tai Chi, Dr. Paul Lam, worldwide online Tai Chi for Health

Dr. Yang Jwing-ming, YMAA.com online exercise, Instruction books, novels: and More

Yoga: Honor Your Body...Peggy Cappy, Relaxing Yoga  and other programs PBS 

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

Images IMAGINE~

* Already Done, I-Ching, ink sketch

art work by Dahlis:

Butterfly Lights, photo

Black and White Horses, oil panting

*** Phoebe's Angel, pencil sketch

MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE~ PREQUEL

 

MEMORY JAR

This post is a prequel to the following story: A JAR, (published July 8 2021) a bit of background here~

The original Memory Jar from the post * Message In A Bottle was published on this blog, Out of the Blue,  on Jan 13, 2913.  What Fun!  Just beginning to collect memories then with a few positive notes and now she expands to a fully stuffed jar!  

I picked out a written message at random and it read:  

"SOMETIMES I AMAZE ME!"

When I see this original jar, and hold it in my hands, I think of my young as a child and her father working together on the small farm.  I can feel the barn and the horse and buggy and the cow and a few chickens, a small and rustic farm.

I always loved the **aqua blue jars, made in Indiana USA from local sands that surprisingly contained chemicals that spontaneously spawned the glorious colors in the glass.

I will sift through the message memories when "time and space permit" and add some new ones:

What will they be?

STAND LIKE A TREE

THERES IS A PLEASURE IN THE PATHLESS WOODS

ALL IS WELL

KEEP MOVING FORWARD, ONE STEP AT A TIME, QUIETLY AND SLOWLY

HELP IS HERE

"Thanks for the Memories" Song by Perry Como

Resources:

* Message in a Bottle, song by Sting and the Police

** Ball Jar Company, Indiana, USA, original blue glass Perfect Ball Mason Jars made between 1910 and 1923.

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A Jar:  Pretty Jars All in a Row

Message in a Bottle (original post Jan 13, 2013)

Stopwatch and Listen

Time Lapse Memory

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

Photo by Dahlis

Memory Jar

A JAR

It has/is a jarring "time" for everyone~ identity disruption, hobbies derailed, "free time" to relax? 

Gone But Not Forgotten.

Shadow Land

"Sorting through STUFF"  the stuff has increased exponentially.  Where does it come from? "Time to Sort?  Paint?  Write?  Think?  Think Again?  Overthink?

Underwhelmed/Overwhelmed by "reality"

VANISHED

To Minimize Plastic, why not switch to glass mason jars for water storage?  I Have jars of many colors and sizes, from years ago!  

Of course I do~ I love jars!  

 Especially  * BLUE JARS!

"Little Jars all in a Row" and Bigger ones too~

Invisible Jar

Some months ago, I had an opportunity to take over filling the glass mason jars with fresh filtered water every day.

HOW AM I GOING TO DO THAT?

I "thought" the task and hand/hands through thoroughly.  I'd have to be strong enough and confident enough to pick up the jars, carefully, and with two hands gripping, fill each jar quickly but not rapidly.  I'd have to be in sharp focus, no daydream in case a "jar" slipped through my slippery wet hands.  

The Jars would have to be in "perfect order" and  set up for easier lifting into the resting place cupboard.  Again, total focus.  Quiet, Clear, Precise. "Just like painting~ relaxed alertness."

I'll try one small jar first. and see how it goes.  Just one jar the first day.  It worked!  I am ready!  I felt like "fetching water" in the "old days" and marveled at the calming effect of the lineup of jars waiting to happen.  

JAR MANAGEMENT

Sort of like an assembly line.

Sort of like a science project.

Sort of like a science lab with beakers, empty and full.

"Mom's Science Lab, Mom ain't here."

WATER MANAGEMENT

The sounds of water entering into the jars is like music, and the frequencies emitted changed as the jars filled.  Letting me know when it was time to switch jars.  SO calming~  Like Painting.  My hands move with dexterity, holding a jar instead of a paint brush.  I felt like the water was like a running fresh spring.

Pick up a jar, move a full jar to a new location, swiftly yet deftly pick up another empty jar and gently fill it.  When all are filled "in exact order."  Pick up the full jars one at a time, with two hands, and move to the next step.

Pretty Jars (sort of) All In A Row~

Lid City!

LID MANAGEMENT

"All" the chosen jars, be they Mason, Ball, or Atlas combinations thereof, in my case, use the same size lids, BPA free and made by the  *Ball Jar company, long lasting and dishwasher safe (top rack) AND I even have a (wait for it) Lid Washer Basket!

Pretty Lids all in a row and color coded besides.  The color of the lids can be a clue as to what batch the water came from.  For example, jars topped with white lids may be used before the 
"newer refill" of jars with blue lids in the back row, hence the pick up order on the shelf, and water is used "in perfect order" so always fresh water is appearing at the right "time" and rotation of jars is accurate.

I know!  It's over focused thinking, but "Hey!" **Alton Brown is grinning.

The "Jarring" daily experience leaves me with a calming moment...Painting with Water!  I also noted my shoulders, arms, and fingers all got stronger as well as dexterity and eye hand coordination.  Ability to place lids securely on jars and double check them "feel" like putting paint tube tops back on paints after a session!  What Fun!  

MEMORY JAR

A large blue quart Ball Perfect Mason Jar used by my Paternal Grandfather on the farm from many years ago greets me with "memories" jotted on bookmarks made of colored note cards cut lengthwise.  Filling the jar:  Poem lines appear here as do Song Titles and Music Phrases and Painting Ideas and Dreams and more. 

*** "Looking Through Windows" I have a suitcase/freight train full of memories TIME AFTER TIME

I have a Blue Jar full of memories I almost left behind...."Time After Time"

"Time is Teching"   Memories Are Made of This~ 

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Tasks At Hands

Time Lapse Memory

Wander and Ponder

Stopwatch and Listen

A Strong Clear Vision

Resources:

* Ball Jar Company, Collector's Edition 1910-1923. "Near the turn of the 20th century, The famous "Ball Blue " color was created when the minerals in the sand used to make the jars resulted in an unexpected aqua color.  These aqua jars were beautiful and became popular for preserving and storing jams, jellies and other recipes.  Today with the NEW Ball Collector's edition jars, you can relive history with a vintage design, color, and logo from a bygone era." Made in the USA, 2018, Hearthmark LLC, 9999 E. 121st Street Fishers IN 46037 USA

** Alton Brown: various media,  Fun with food and science too, "Timer after Timer" Alton is always "on time!" Good Eats and more

PUR facet water filter

Music

*** Cindi Lauper sings Time After Time

Song of the Day: Harry Stiles, Sign of the Times, 2017

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

Photos  by Dahlis:

Shadow Land

Reflections

Invisible Jar

Science Project

Pretty Jars All in A Row

Blue Sunlight