Sunday, November 28, 2010

quotes i like...

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
- H. H. Williams

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Today

Today
by Frank O'Hara

Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas!
You really are beautiful! Pearls,
harmonicas, jujubes, asprins! all
the stuff they’ ve always talked about

still makes a poem a surprise!
These things are with us every day
even on beachheads and biers. They
do have meaning. They’re strong as rocks.

(1950)

Thursday, November 18, 2010

quotes i like...

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me." ~Erma Bombeck

Monday, November 15, 2010

quotes i like...

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

I'm in a show...

Inaugural Holiday Art Show

November 19, 2010 - January 5, 2011
This month in the Jean Bulicek Gallery, the Beck Center presents the inaugural Holiday Art Exhibit highlighting seven outstanding regional artists who engage and inspire with their creativity. Darrelle Centuori, Anizia Karmazyn, Liz Maugins, Lynn O’Brien, Patricia H. Sigmier, Marilyn Szalay, and Mark Yasenchack offer a visual feast of beautiful art for our patrons buying pleasure during the coming holiday season.
Painter Lynn O’Brien’s current work includes three different overlapping series of mixed media paintings entitled “Forms from Nature,” “Garden,” and “Letters.” These works developed from her interest in creating more quiet and calming images with a connection to the natural world. Marilyn Szalay offers outstanding figurative drawings and Patricia Hanahan Sigmier engages the viewer with her vibrant watercolors of the natural world.
Photographer Darrelle Centuori’s work evolves from her process of “trying to find objects or situations that seem to evoke a kind of quiet magic,” and she is interested in “the resonance that occurs when unexpected elements come together and seem to have always belong to each other.” Painter and Printmaker Anizia Karmazyn uses the deeply textured, patterned, and colorful world around her as inspiration for her work. She also “sees parallels between the nature of the surrounding natural world and that of human experience.”
Printmaker Liz Maugins images are plucked from 1950’s children’s books, the ultimate era of perfection and idealism, which she then manipulates by contrasting these images to today’s youthful archetypes. Ceramic Artist Mark Yasenchack’s work presents a textural feast for the eyes. Mark’s boxes and mirrors are adorned with pattern and jewel like touches of vibrant color.
Come and see this wonderful show, and maybe you will find something to bring home or to give to a loved one.

Quotes i like...

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
- Bill Lyon

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Quotes i like...

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
-
Marlene Dietrich

Circus Souvenirs



Tuesday, November 2, 2010



"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others." - Pericles

Monday, November 1, 2010

Quotes i like...

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
- W. Somerset Maugham

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"We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror." - Marshall McLuhan