Wishing you a very happy holiday
and a merry new year!
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Tibetan Buddhist Monks Mandala Sand Painting
ViVianesque is very inspired by these Tibetan Buddhist Monks while they are sand painting Mandalas! Take a peek!
Saturday, December 1, 2012
discovering & defining your moments of bliss...
discovering & defining your moments of bliss...
ViVianesque created this collaged artwork with acrylics, paper, black ink, and gesso. This is on a wood panel board that her friend, Damon, gave to her! In fact he gave her a few boxfuls of wood panels to art! Inspired by Art & Soul and Anahata Katkin, ViVianesque designed a flowered head-dress boufante on this missy with a right wide eye and a left stare down! She's flaunting her red hot lips and much of her beauty lies behind her soul while she is finding herself in a midst of bliss! ViVianesque is beginning a series of blissful collages starting with this No. 6 fragment! Take a peek back!
www.pinterest.com
ViVianesque just discovered Pinterest! Take a peek at her pinning boards at http://pinterest.com/vivianesque/
Since she has a passion for photography, Pinterest is a sure way to enjoy other pinnings as well as exhibiting her own photography artworks! She encourages you to create a flurry of boards of your likings. She believes that you will treasure them with creating an endless and around the clock digital collage during your most creative moments or those times of lacksidaisyness! Any time is a good time for Pinterest! Once you have designed your Pinterest, send her an invite cuZ she would love to see what you are flitting and flaunting! Unfurl your inspired imaginations and splash her with your Pinterest canvas!
Time flies...
Hello all...jingle bells are around the corner!
Happy holidays to you and yours!!
Time flies...it has been about one year and a half since ViVianesque has blogged! It's been a needed time to explore other realms of her life. She is thankful for many things that occurred in the past 1.5. Life presents the good in itself by virtue of opportunistic avenues. One of the many life saviors and enjoyments is that she is in a wonderful relationship which she is so thankful for...healthy and loving parallels are soothing for the soul. Spirituality is the essence of interconnections. Grae has been her Oh. Grae. Grae. Need she say more?? AND she must not forget the continued support from her friends and family...what is a girl to do without her posse! So thankful for everyone in her life! Thanks for being right by her side through all of these fun times!
She is attending The Academy of Art University in San Francisco, California attaining a Masters in Art Education. She is absolutely in LoVe, LoVE, LOve with her program and it is just up her alley! As she is attending courses online, she was able to travel to many exciting and new places. One of the places was to the bowels of the Grand Slam Australian Jr. Open Tennis Stadiums in Melbourne, Australia watching her son, Mackie, climb to the semi-finals then zipping to the NCAA Women's Gymnastics National Championships where her daughter's, Dana, UCLA team placed 3rd in the nation in Duluth, Georgia (and now the 42nd state that ViVianesque has visited!) A good life has opened up new portals when old closing ones were rapidly firing!
The good two cents' worth is to enjoy and live life to the fullest everyday cuZ you don't know what challenges tomorrow may bring you! And even the challenges can be turned around to be positive experiences. You may not know what or why that is the happenings at the time, but eventually it presents itself with a lesson, an experience, a time of gaining, or a time of loss. Always remember, "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger!" As Nike (Mackie's sponsor) states, JUST DO IT!!! And have an amaZing time while you're at it!! xoxo.
Happy holidays to you and yours!!
Time flies...it has been about one year and a half since ViVianesque has blogged! It's been a needed time to explore other realms of her life. She is thankful for many things that occurred in the past 1.5. Life presents the good in itself by virtue of opportunistic avenues. One of the many life saviors and enjoyments is that she is in a wonderful relationship which she is so thankful for...healthy and loving parallels are soothing for the soul. Spirituality is the essence of interconnections. Grae has been her Oh. Grae. Grae. Need she say more?? AND she must not forget the continued support from her friends and family...what is a girl to do without her posse! So thankful for everyone in her life! Thanks for being right by her side through all of these fun times!
She is attending The Academy of Art University in San Francisco, California attaining a Masters in Art Education. She is absolutely in LoVe, LoVE, LOve with her program and it is just up her alley! As she is attending courses online, she was able to travel to many exciting and new places. One of the places was to the bowels of the Grand Slam Australian Jr. Open Tennis Stadiums in Melbourne, Australia watching her son, Mackie, climb to the semi-finals then zipping to the NCAA Women's Gymnastics National Championships where her daughter's, Dana, UCLA team placed 3rd in the nation in Duluth, Georgia (and now the 42nd state that ViVianesque has visited!) A good life has opened up new portals when old closing ones were rapidly firing!
The good two cents' worth is to enjoy and live life to the fullest everyday cuZ you don't know what challenges tomorrow may bring you! And even the challenges can be turned around to be positive experiences. You may not know what or why that is the happenings at the time, but eventually it presents itself with a lesson, an experience, a time of gaining, or a time of loss. Always remember, "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger!" As Nike (Mackie's sponsor) states, JUST DO IT!!! And have an amaZing time while you're at it!! xoxo.
Monday, June 13, 2011
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
How To Be Alone
HOW TO BE ALONE by Tanya Davis
If you are at first lonely, be patient. If you've not been alone much, or if when you were, you weren't okay with it, then just wait. You'll find it's fine to be alone once you're embracing it.
We could start with the acceptable places, the bathroom, the coffee shop, the library. Where you can stall and read the paper, where you can get your caffeine fix and sit and stay there. Where you can browse the stacks and smell the books. You're not supposed to talk much anyway so it's safe there.
There's also the gym. If you're shy you could hang out with yourself in mirrors, you could put headphones in (guitar stroke).
And there's public transportation, because we all gotta go places.
And there's prayer and meditation. No one will think less if you're hanging with your breath seeking peace and salvation.
Start simple. Things you may have previously (electric guitar plucking) based on your avoid being alone principals.
The lunch counter. Where you will be surrounded by chow-downers. Employees who only have an hour and their spouses work across town and so they -- like you -- will be alone.
Resist the urge to hang out with your cell phone.
When you are comfortable with eat lunch and run, take yourself out for dinner. A restaurant with linen and silverware. You're no less intriguing a person when you're eating solo dessert to cleaning the whipped cream from the dish with your finger. In fact some people at full tables will wish they were where you were.
Go to the movies. Where it is dark and soothing. Alone in your seat amidst a fleeting community.
And then, take yourself out dancing to a club where no one knows you. Stand on the outside of the floor till the lights convince you more and more and the music shows you. Dance like no one's watching...because, they're probably not. And, if they are, assume it is with best of human intentions. The way bodies move genuinely to beats is, after all, gorgeous and affecting. Dance until you're sweating, and beads of perspiration remind you of life's best things, down your back like a brook of blessings.
Go to the woods alone, and the trees and squirrels will watch for you.
Go to an unfamiliar city, roam the streets, there're always statues to talk to and benches made for sitting give strangers a shared existence if only for a minute and these moments can be so uplifting and the conversations you get in by sitting alone on benches might've never happened had you not been there by yourself
Society is afraid of alonedom, like lonely hearts are wasting away in basements, like people must have problems if, after a while, nobody is dating them. but lonely is a freedom that breaths easy and weightless and lonely is healing if you make it.
You could stand, swathed by groups and mobs or hold hands with your partner, look both further and farther for the endless quest for company. But no one's in your head and by the time you translate your thoughts, some essence of them may be lost or perhaps it is just kept.
Perhaps in the interest of loving oneself, perhaps all those sappy slogans from preschool over to high school's groaning were tokens for holding the lonely at bay. Cuz if you're happy in your head than solitude is blessed and alone is okay.
It's okay if no one believes like you. All experience is unique, no one has the same synapses, can't think like you, for this be releived, keeps things interesting lifes magic things in reach.
And it doesn't mean you're not connected, that communitie's not present, just take the perspective you get from being one person in one head and feel the effects of it. take silence and respect it. if you have an art that needs a practice, stop neglecting it. if your family doesn't get you, or religious sect is not meant for you, don't obsess about it.
you could be in an instant surrounded if you needed it
If your heart is bleeding make the best of it
There is heat in freezing, be a testament.
If you are at first lonely, be patient. If you've not been alone much, or if when you were, you weren't okay with it, then just wait. You'll find it's fine to be alone once you're embracing it.
We could start with the acceptable places, the bathroom, the coffee shop, the library. Where you can stall and read the paper, where you can get your caffeine fix and sit and stay there. Where you can browse the stacks and smell the books. You're not supposed to talk much anyway so it's safe there.
There's also the gym. If you're shy you could hang out with yourself in mirrors, you could put headphones in (guitar stroke).
And there's public transportation, because we all gotta go places.
And there's prayer and meditation. No one will think less if you're hanging with your breath seeking peace and salvation.
Start simple. Things you may have previously (electric guitar plucking) based on your avoid being alone principals.
The lunch counter. Where you will be surrounded by chow-downers. Employees who only have an hour and their spouses work across town and so they -- like you -- will be alone.
Resist the urge to hang out with your cell phone.
When you are comfortable with eat lunch and run, take yourself out for dinner. A restaurant with linen and silverware. You're no less intriguing a person when you're eating solo dessert to cleaning the whipped cream from the dish with your finger. In fact some people at full tables will wish they were where you were.
Go to the movies. Where it is dark and soothing. Alone in your seat amidst a fleeting community.
And then, take yourself out dancing to a club where no one knows you. Stand on the outside of the floor till the lights convince you more and more and the music shows you. Dance like no one's watching...because, they're probably not. And, if they are, assume it is with best of human intentions. The way bodies move genuinely to beats is, after all, gorgeous and affecting. Dance until you're sweating, and beads of perspiration remind you of life's best things, down your back like a brook of blessings.
Go to the woods alone, and the trees and squirrels will watch for you.
Go to an unfamiliar city, roam the streets, there're always statues to talk to and benches made for sitting give strangers a shared existence if only for a minute and these moments can be so uplifting and the conversations you get in by sitting alone on benches might've never happened had you not been there by yourself
Society is afraid of alonedom, like lonely hearts are wasting away in basements, like people must have problems if, after a while, nobody is dating them. but lonely is a freedom that breaths easy and weightless and lonely is healing if you make it.
You could stand, swathed by groups and mobs or hold hands with your partner, look both further and farther for the endless quest for company. But no one's in your head and by the time you translate your thoughts, some essence of them may be lost or perhaps it is just kept.
Perhaps in the interest of loving oneself, perhaps all those sappy slogans from preschool over to high school's groaning were tokens for holding the lonely at bay. Cuz if you're happy in your head than solitude is blessed and alone is okay.
It's okay if no one believes like you. All experience is unique, no one has the same synapses, can't think like you, for this be releived, keeps things interesting lifes magic things in reach.
And it doesn't mean you're not connected, that communitie's not present, just take the perspective you get from being one person in one head and feel the effects of it. take silence and respect it. if you have an art that needs a practice, stop neglecting it. if your family doesn't get you, or religious sect is not meant for you, don't obsess about it.
you could be in an instant surrounded if you needed it
If your heart is bleeding make the best of it
There is heat in freezing, be a testament.
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