My first Silva,won't be my last...Fallen Angel by Daniel Silva

Other blogs I have...

http://greatpyrenesssightingsnyc.blogspot.com/about Great Pyrenees dogs http://gardendesignpsycharch.blogspot.com/my garden design http://bestofpsycharch.blogspot.com/my favorite drawings http://christainpsychedelicarchitecture.blogspot.com/my Christian art http://psychedelicarchitecture.blogspot.com/all of my art... 

Another Quote...

 The Romantics are read because schools are not very successful in linking discipline to creative thought.

A Quote from Malcolm Muggeridge.

It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying through the stratosphere or landing on the moon. First-rate pursuits - involving, as they must, trying to understand what life is about and trying to convey that understanding - inevitably result in a sense of failure. A Napoleon, a Churchill, a Roosevelt can feel themselves to be successful, but never a Socrates, a Pascal, a Blake. Understanding is for ever unattainable. Therein lies the inevitability of failure in embarking upon its quest, which is none the less the only one worthy of serious attention. “ 
Malcolm Muggeridge.

What would an American Aristocrat look like?

A Classic,from"The Third Man"

In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock." 

A major stream of human accomplishment is fostered by a culture in which the most talented people believe that life has a purpose and that the function of life is to fulfill that purpose.Charles Murrary

Another quote:

This art is about a certain kind of romantic tosh, a false idea of what the world is like that gets into little girls' heads before they are mature enough to know the truth. What is original about Kilimnik is that she doesn't dismiss this stage of growing up: she treasures it.

Had there been a particle of cynicism in all this, I'd have hated every second of the Serpentine show.

But I genuinely believe that in her dotty way this strange artist responds to a beauty she sees in European culture that eludes most of us who live here. Kilimnik is one step away from being an outsider artist.

You don't judge her work by its skill or technique but by the authenticity of its vision

A Good Quote...

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. ~Jawaharlal Nehru ~ 

Very Powerful re-defines "tough childhood" Satan Is Real by Charlie Louvin

Good,Common Sense book on raising kids... Teach Your Children Well by Madeline Levine

A Great,Great book! Splendors Glooms by Laura A. Schlitz

Every Love Story is a Ghost Story by D.T. Max