Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

[Note: Zen Upchuck journal entry, 2/25/2016] Some people just cannot handle exposure or the world knowing what they are all about… What one does, what one says, where one goes, how one shops, what politicians one supports, what books one purchases, where one works and work history, what one believes...

Thanks Saw... I did feel inspired this a.m....

“When you meet a man who is not a poet, please do not try and show him your poem” Myosan Eisai ~ Is haiku Zen? nope Is Zen haiku? nope Is the dog a dog? yep ~ the sunrise makes my pallet the trees are my brush mind the painter! ~ I cannot stop for you right now a dove calls ~ outside my window a sli...

WOMEN IN ART…BEHAVE YOURSELF! Journal Post What a lot of people tend to forget is that all great artists and great art is usually surrounded or embroiled in controversy. Time and history blunts the sword that many of the “greats” wielded. Or those foresighted enough to create a totally new direction...

Thanks for the responses Saw and Mnaz... and for reading. Unfortunately my time is limited (especially this time of the year!) to do them justice.

Journal Post by SooZen Sometimes. I. Just. Want. To. Scream…!!!!!!!!!!! I do… (Really SooZ???) Why you may ask? There is so much tragedy in this world and we Big Apes (us humans) can spend all our waking hours focusing and tuned in, 24/7, on what is wrong?, who is killing whom?, who is saying what?,...

Saw, how do we spread the word ?.....TOO LATE ? Never too late, never too soon. Like Artguy said, step off the wheel and be what you want to happen. Me? I am just an observer and a chronicler in my connective sphere and that is enough to make a change. Hand wringing is not a part of it, nor is despa...

Have to agree Kurt!

Thank you, I do appreciate the comments (Not that it matters... )

no problemo... Hi Jack!

Hah! Mark, I don't usually involve myself in the dirty business of politics (as you may know) but that is what came out on the page that day. You seem to have your history correct and that "accelerated human evolution" is an idealistic view IMO and doesn't fit the aggressive males (in general) of us...

Thanks Arcadia!

THE BLIND POET’S EYE (See dedication below…) Journal Post by SooZen Hypocrisy: hy·poc·ri·sy həˈpäkrəsē/ noun noun: hypocrisy; plural noun: hypocrisies “the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense.” O yeah. Perhaps that word shoul...

Thanks Saw for the reply... and the well wishes.

THE FIX IS IN, A POLITICAL TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT Journal Post by SooZen Because I am in the midst of a major fibro flare which exacerbates all of my other physical failings, I haven’t had the energy to do much but moan (O really SooZ?) But today, I am putting the pain in my neck, wrist, knees, feet an...