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Day 04

Day 04 – A picture of your night.

Oh. It said night, not knight.

Well, so there’s my night. Once again, a highly interpretive little thing, “a picture of your night.” I tend to like to sleep at night. Thus, a picture of the inside of my eyelids. But you know, part of sleeping is dreaming, so I thought I’d share something else. I dream in color. Not always, but when I do it’s pretty cool. And it looks like the ceiling of the Opéra Garnier in Paris. Without the goats.

I really love the colors that Chagall uses, only, the floating goats are a little too much. In all fairness, though, this is actually my favorite Chagall painting:

It’s called Self-Portrait with Muse and I fell in love with it when I first saw it almost 30 years ago. In fact, I had been rather tepid about the Chagall museum until I saw this painting up close and contemplated the origins of inspiration. I explain it a little here, and am reminded of another painting, too. Many years later I  would go full circle and encounter a very different painting, this one by Rembrandt, St. Matthew and the Angel, and I suppose, with my refined (read that older and mature) sensibilities, found it moving, more so than when I first saw the Chagall. I was drawn to this Rembrandt painting at a traveling Louvre exhibit in Atlanta, and circled back to it several times, drawn to the Angel.

Years passed between the time I saw the Rembrandt painting and I thought about writing again. Something remarkable happened and I started making a connection between my own writing and the Divine source of that inspiration. It wasn’t a cascade or domino effect, but a gradual awakening, guided a little by a mortal muse, but a muse nonetheless.

By the way, the real picture of my night, in case you missed it, is a little trip into my head…

 

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Day 03

Day 03 – A picture of the cast from your favorite show.

I loved this show — it’s a shame it got cancelled. 🙁

Any other Browncoats out there?

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that 25 things meme

It’s been annoying me to get tagged because I usually ignore these things unless they really capture my interest, but I guess it’s grown on me. So here goes, in no particular order:

1. I don’t like to use public bathrooms.

2. I used to dye my hair, and now that I have more gray than ever, just forgot to keep up with it.

3. I like the tv show, House

4. I go to work every day and pretend to know what I am doing. I profess with great alacrity and confidence. Maybe I’ll be able to keep up the ruse until retirement.

5. My favorite candy bar is Zero.

6. I have a minor in French.

7. I majored in psychology right up until I had to take clinicals and couldn’t pick up the rats. I don’t regret the switch to literature, although history would have been a close second. That means I also have a minor in psychology, for what it’s worth.

8. I like to eat fried eggs and rice with ketchup all over it.

9. I’ve always loved my kids, but now that they are big and know how to bathe themselves, I find them interesting and fun to be with because they are interesting people, not just because I spawned them.

10. I once spent the night in a whorehouse. With a gay man. I slept with one eye open, and he slept in a chair leaning against the door. (I can’t wait to hear from my parents on this one).

11. My nieces and nephews have the most beautiful laughs. Ever.

12. I love yellow roses. It’s a bad habit I acquired from my honey. 😉

13. I can’t read music. A number of music-people have tried to teach me, and the only thing worse than my frustration, is their defeat. Ha!

14. I was a cheerleader. (believe me, I don’t believe it either).

15. I broke a priest’s fingers in a pick up basketball game. Nobody was safe when I played b-ball.

16. I like Christy’s musical selections.

17. I fell in love with my husband because he has manly hands.

18. My pinkies and the second toe on both feet are really crooked. (I saw this on somebody else’s list–how weird is that?).

19. I once dreamed of competing in the Olympics, but then my heart conked out and couldn’t pursue a college career.

20. I like old-school Cuban music, crooners, blues, and country music.

21. I don’t like dolls.

22. I used to paint when I was a kid. I’m thinking of trying my hand at it again.

23. I’d like to travel in space.

24. I don’t really like burned toast or anything else that is over done, although I sometimes pull the mommy switch.

25. I want to go to Las Vegas!

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