“Animals are not just living things; they are beings with lives. Next time you are outside, notice the first bird you see.
You are beholding a unique individual with personality traits, an emotional profile and a library of knowledge built on experience. What you are witnessing is not just biology… but a biography.”
(Jonathan Balcombe)
Charles Littleleaf Native Flutes
Tag Archives: Uplifting Words
A Fleeting Moment
“It’s a moment that I’m after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.”
-Andrew Wyeth
This life is so precious and the wonders are astounding. That is what compels me about photography. You must be fully present to acknowledge these wonders, then make a choice as to what to frame, what moment to capture. We’re doing that continually of course – making choices of what to focus on, what to acknowledge, what to see and remember.
I’m choosing to remember and focus on love, truth, energy, small and large nature wonders, life’s grace…
“When you really pay attention, everything is your teacher.”
-Ezra Bayda
White Buffalo Day
Today is White Buffalo Day, a celebration of unity and healing based on a legend or prophecy of the Lakota that is 19 generations old.
“All life is Sacred. We come into life as sacred beings. When we abuse the Sacredness of life we affect all Creation”
-White Buffalo Proclamation 2014
The link below provides info about the world wide celebration:
http://www.culturecollective.org/white-buffalo-day-unity-world-divided/
Here is their website:
http://www.whitebuffaloday.com/
Hear Chief Arvol Looking Horse speak of the legend here (10 minutes):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PHqVdZmpRgI
Walk in Prayer…
Drum, Dance and Pray for Peace!
The Words You Speak
“The words you speak become the house you live in.”
-Hafiz
Leaving Safe Harbor
“The ship is safest when it is in port, but that’s not what ships were built for.”
-Paulo Coelho
“And the ship plays on those sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships”.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“A great ship asks deep waters.”
-George Herbert
Know that you sail the seas of life
as the master of your own ship.– Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“On a ship, knowing when to be silent is just as important as knowing when to speak.”
-J. Z. Colby
A Grain of Sand
“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
-William Blake
Tree of Life
“And love is smiling through all things.”
-Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life
“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.”
-Robert Louis Stevenson
“There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.”
-Martin Luther
lowercase art
This article from The Lewicki Agency’s website (http://thelewickiagency.com/uppercase-art-and-lowercase-art/) has the words to help explain the muse and the need for expression that I have passion for. I love bringing those expressions to fruition here on Sweet Breathing’s blog/website. It is purely personal. It may never be read or seen. It’s simply what I have in my be-ing that day as I connect inside and outside with the world – especially nature’s world.
My expressions in photography and words are not Art (although the quotes that I often pair with my offerings from the masters that speak to me about these wonders often are). My photos and words are certainly not “Fine” nor the “Uppercase Art” this article discusses. But they are indeed “lowercase art” in the very way this article describes.
This blog truly is an honest and raw dialogue, in pictures and words, about my world, my life, and my experience – my constant thread to wonder. It IS freeing, creative and often does (as the author writes) “reveal another dimension of my understanding.”
lowercase art.
Yes, it explains it pretty well. Thanks Andrea.
from Andrea Lewicki:
“There’s a difference between Art and what I call ‘lowercase art.’
Both are forms of creative expression.
Both are dialogues about our world, our lives, our experience.
Uppercase Art is fine art. It’s created in awareness of a particular domain of expression.
Uppercase Art has lineage.
The most important distinction of Uppercase Art is that its dialogue includes an external audience. Uppercase Art has a life outside the artist.
Lowercase art is created more in the insulated awareness of an individual’s life. It has a certain wild individuality. Lowercase art is an internal dialogue, within the artist. It’s personal, deeply individual. You invent the rules, the traditions, the standards.
You create and take apart and recreate all within the privacy of your own experience.
Both Uppercase Art and lowercase art are about creating meaning. Both can be inventive and radically new. In both Uppercase Art and lowercase art, you learn to improvise through obstacles, solve the unique problems that arise from your inventions, and reveal another dimension of your understanding.
But lowercase art is primarily for you. It’s your creative playground. What starts in lowercase art sometimes ends in Uppercase Art, but it doesn’t have to. Lowercase art can be messy and incomplete and still make perfect sense to you.
When you create lowercase art, you create your own creative shorthand.
Lowercase art is liberating, an activity of pure freedom, safe from external judgement.
It’s yours. It’s where you can be most freely you. There’s courage and connection here.
Lowercase art is good for your overall wellbeing.”
“Inspiration isn’t delivered on a silver platter to an idle or distracted muse. Inspiration is received by open eyes, open mind, & open heart.”
-Andrea Lewicki
The Gift
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”
-Albert Einstein
“You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.”
-Alan Alda
Good Vibrations
“Each and every atom produces a particular sound on account of its movement, its rhythm or vibration. All these sounds and vibrations form a universal harmony.”
~ Pythagoras
“You can look at disease as a form of disharmony. And there’s no organ system in the body that’s not affected by sound and music and vibration.”
~Mitchell Gaynor
Sound, music and vibration are available to provide a healing balm, an encapsulating immersion, a communion and connection.
The more base our thoughts and vibration the more stuck in lowly muck we may stay. As vibration moves to the higher realms, a lovely sweet level of universal harmony may be found.
So raise it up! Vibrate in the higher qualities using nature, sound, and music to help in the elevating process. The harmony of the universe is waiting.
“Get out into the sunlight — out where everything is — with a vibration that is so dominant that those who annoy you; those who don’t agree with you; those who make your life feel uncomfortable don’t come into your experience, because your vibration — through your practice — has become so clear, so pure, so clean, so in keeping with what you want, that the world that revolves around you just feels like that. That’s what you planned.”
-Abraham
“To enter into the initiation of sound, of vibration and mindfulness, is to take a giant step toward consciously knowing the soul. We need the courage to enter into ourselves with the great respect and mystery that combines the faith of a child, the abandon of a mystic, and the true wisdom of an old shaman.”
-Don G. Campbell