Blue Monday

Blue Monday,

Baby it's cold outside, -20 this morning, but the sun is up....

Fill your cup up.

It can only be -20 or it can be -20 with the sun up.

Start filling that cup with things that will fill your heart.

Every year I get asked from family, What do you want for Christmas?

Every year I tell them the same thing.

I want things that will fill my senses.

You know, eyes, ears, smells, taste, touch.....

When my life feels staled. Like nothing is happening.

I go back to my W's list.

I find that many of the things I need start with the letter W.

Try it. See how many words that make you happy start with the letter W.

I'm making my list right now.

Be Inspired,

~jean

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Blue Monday

 

 

BLUE MONDAY

 

Rainbow Forrest, watercolor, by Jean Hart
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Everyday you step a thousand ways
Everyday you express yourself a thousand ways,
Everyday you choose a thousand ways to be you,
The line is unbroken, unspoken, and clearly chosen,
your path is your way.
Be Inpsired,
~Jean
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Blue Monday

Blue Monday

The paintings for Blue Monday, are not always blue in color, some are blue in mood or texture,

This little painting of a burned tree in the marshes made me sad, but too it reminded me of this poem.

Enjoy,

~Jean

 

Trees and Men

 

The tree that didn't have to fight,

for sun and sky and air and light,

But lived out on the open plain,

and always got its' share of rain,

Never became a forest king,

But lived and died a scrubby thing.

 

The man who never tasted spoil,

The man who never had to toil,

That never had to win his share

of sun and sky and light and air.

Never became a manly man.

But lived and died where he began.

 

Good timber does not grow with ease.

The stronger the winds the tougher the trees.

The further the sky, the greater the length,

The more the storms, the more the strength.

 

By sun and cold and rain and snow.,

In tree or man good timbers grow,

Where the thickest stands the forest growth

We find the patriarchs of both.

 

Who hold and converse with the stairs,

Whose broken branches show many scars,

of many winds and much of strife,

This is the common law of life,

Og Mandino

Blue Monday-finding sublimity in our surroundings

Blue Monday

Rise and shine!

It's Monday.

Raise yourself out of the past and into a new day.

Look who has come to join me for breakfast.

It's hard to feel too blue when I look out my window and see this.

How can you not look at nature and not be inspired?

Walt Whitman said,"A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."

What would the landscape look like without nature. Surely what would artists paint, photographers shoot or poets write about.

Here's a thought for today.

Without nature what would the major master pieces of artwork be?

Nature is everywhere, landscapes, seascapes, animals.

Now think, what is the rest of the artists painting if not nature?

My guess is the relationship people have to nature, abstract, man-made structures and feelings.

Nature has colors and shapes we can all relate to easily. Without too much thought we recognize trees, mountain, oceans.

A question for today,

Why do humans feel so moved and inspired by nature?

Today's challenge is for you to draw something in nature to moves you in an inspired way.

Be Inspired,

~Jean

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