Jenny Mendes

A Mouse and a Frog Near a Pond Jalal al-Din Rumi, Maulana (Author) PERIOD 1073 AH/AD 1663 Beans Green and Yellow From  Swan: Poems and Prose Poems By Mary Oliver   In fall it is mushrooms gathered in dampness under the pines; in spring I have known the taste of the lamb full of milk and spring grass; today it is beans green and yellow and lettuce and basil from my friend’s garden – how calmly, as though it were an ordinary thing, we eat the blessed earth. Hieronymus Bosch - detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights

Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford -- ‘The angel Ruh holding the celestial spheres’. A single page from a manuscript of Zakariya ibn Muhammad al-Qazwini ‘s The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence (Arabic: ‘Aja’ib al-makhluqat wa-ghara’ib al-mawjudat). Western Iran, second half of the 16th century.

Syrian artist Tammam Azzam and his personal Gustav Klimt's "The Kiss" on war-torn building in Syria >>> http://loves.domusweb.it/ freedom-graffiti/

Jean Cocteau Sonia Lewitzka - Le Baiser, 1928 Jean Cocteau - la lettre

A hot little image by Nouar Boldy on a very cold day.... it was -11 when I got home last night! and it might be even colder right now!!!

Japanese Wonder ceramic figurine "DOGU". B.C.3000 - 2000. This figurine was unearthed on Imojiya Minami-alups Yamanashi Japan.

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For a committed heart everything is possible.  ~ Rumi

 Anasazi Gallup black and white pitcher with an unusual flattened handle 1030 AD - 1125 AD

If you send out goodness from yourself, or if you share that which is happy or good within you, it will all come back to you multiplied ten thousand times. In the kingdom of love there is no competition; there is no possessiveness or control. The more love you give away, the more love you will have. John O'Donohue

Only do not forget, if I wake up crying it's only because in my dream I'm a lost child hunting through the leaves of the night for your hands....”  ―  Pablo Neruda ,  100 Love Sonnets “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”  ―  Pablo Neruda ,  100 Love Sonnets “As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”  ―  Pablo Neruda “I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,  in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”  ―  Pablo Neruda ,  100 Love Sonnets “But I love your feet  only because they walked  upon the earth and upon  the wind and upon the waters,  until they found me.”  ―  Pablo Neruda “I want To do with you what sprin

"Atoms are driven by consciousness. In proximity to love, they move in harmonious collaboration with other atoms. When in proximity to fear, they become disharmonious and chaotic. We choose each moment the energy that surrounds us." ~ Marianne Williamson

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THE REED FLUTE'S SONG by Jalalu'ddin Rumi, excerpted from Coleman Barks' translation in  The Essential Rumi Listen to the story told by the reed, of being separated. "Since I was cut from the reedbed, I have made this crying sound. Anyone apart from someone he loves understands what I say. Anyone pulled from a source longs to go back. At any gathering I am there, mingling in the laughing and grieving, a friend to each, but few will hear the secrets hidden within the notes. No ears for that. Body flowing out of spirit, spirit up from body: no concealing that mixing. But it's not given us to  see  the soul. The reed flute is fire, not wind. Be that empty." Hear the love fire tangled in the reed notes, as bewilderment melts into wine. The reed is a friend to all who want the fabric torn and drawn away. The reed is hurt and salve combining. Intimacy and longing for intimacy, one song. A disastrous surrender and a fine love, together. The one who secretly h

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowerbird Bowerbirds build complex architectural masterpieces to attract males.  Amazing artists!  I can think of a few who may have inspired by their work!!!

I was listening to this interview of Mary Oliver while painting this the other night...Krista Tippett interviewing her, listening to the uncut version about 90 minutes.... Listen to it here:   http://www.onbeing.org/program/mary-oliver-listening-to-the-world/7267 We really enjoyed it so much, Sometimes we talked, but mostly we listened working quietly together. Here is a poem for today for you to listen to if you don't have time for the full interview:    https://soundcloud.com/onbeing/i-happened-to-be-standing-by Or you can read her words.... I HAPPENED TO BE STANDING ~ Mary Oliver I don’t know where prayers go, or what they do. Do cats pray, while they sleep half-asleep in the sun? Does the opossum pray as it crosses the street? The sunflowers? The old black oak growing older every year? I know I can walk through the world, along the shore or under the trees, with my mind filled with things of little importance, in full self-attendance.  A condition I can’t really call

We were supposed to be three but life got in the way, and so we were the original two that have been getting together for years making our valentine ritual together.  This was the first thing I did, after hearing a story, and then bringing a personal image to it... More on that tomorrow...I am sleepy now, but happy from friendship and listening to the words of a poet and painting for hours.

I've a special play date tonight with some friends... Guess what we'll be doing?

Thanks Bob!

A Fascinating show on different types of Entanglement from the new NPR show called Invisibilia http://www.npr.org/programs/invisibilia/   you can find it and listent to it here.

Christian Schloe Catrin Welz-Stein