SKETCHYbones

"Before you can find God, you must lose yourself."
-Baal Shem Tov

charcoal scratches. minor chords. the smell of oil paints. snow storms. story time. working up a sweat. long hot showers. multisensory experiences. learning. universal kindness. unconditional love. this constant state of flux. red apples. raw art. blues, both visual and auditory. honest creative expression. silver lined catastrophies. familiar souls. deep and Real friendships (my friends are fucking amazing in case you didn't know). Truth.

i like images like these (click on photo to see entire set):

"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns,
or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses."
- Abraham Lincoln

i like quotes like these:

Art is a lie that makes us realize Truth.
-Pablo Picasso

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

The Velveteen Rabbit:
"What is Real?" asked the Rabbit one day... "It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."
{thanks Liesel!}

Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve... I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.
- Ani Difranco

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
- Frederick Buechner

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of TRIAL and SUFFERING can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired and SUCCESS achieved.
- Helen Keller

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins. Not through strength, but through persistence.
- H.D.Thoreau

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
- Walter Anderson

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love.
- Washington Irving

You strike me and at least it is more honest than your embrace.
- Liesel Phillips

I need you to hold my limbs down forcefully and speak loudly over me. Otherwise, I miss the rules.
- Liesel Phillips

The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you; they are unique manifestations of the human spirit.
- Wade Davis

*Monologue At 3 AM*

Better that every fiber crack
and fury make head,
blood drenching vivid
couch, carpet, floor
and the snake-figured almanac
vouching you are
a million green counties from here,

than to sit mute, twitching so
under prickling stars,
with stare, with curse
blackening the time
goodbyes were said, trains let go,
and I, great magnanimous fool,thus wrenched from
my one kingdom.

- Sylvia Plath

Still addicted to (works by)Francesca Woodman:

(copyrighted photos)...freakin incredible images... visceral... unfortunatey, another great artist lost to suicide at a young age

and(works by) Gottfried Helnwein: