Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it ~ Confucius

True freedom has nothing to do with the outside world. True freedom is not political, not economic; it is spiritual. Political freedom can be taken away at any moment; economic freedom can disappear just like a dewdrop in the early morning sun. They are not in your hands. And that which is not in your hands cannot be called true freedom.


True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail.

Yes, your body can suffer all these things, but your soul is intrinsically free. You don't have to ask for it, and you don't have to struggle for it. It is already there, this very moment. If you turn inwards, all chains, prisons, all kinds of slaveries disappear--and there are many. Freedom is only one; slaveries are many--just as truth is one, lies can be thousands.


~ Osho


from:  Freedom ~ The Courage to Be Yourself

Dancing the Dream





Where are the dances of Oneness,

That I knew before my birth?

Did I surrender my wholeness

In order to walk the Earth?

Did I choose forgetting

In order to make life real?

Did I inhabit a human body

So I could learn how to feel?



I am here to dance the dream

In my sacred human form.

To celebrate my uniqueness

And ask no other to conform.

Dancing through life's lessons,

I will learn to move with grace,

While I dream of remembering

The potential of the human race.



~ Jamie Sams

nomad and snake

another couple of cards finished.
both are approx size 8 X 6 inch.

nomad

the lover of silence...

snake

finding myself lost for words…
maybe something to do with all the
snakey dreams am having of late..
slowing down with the increasing cold.

sweet dreams lovelies...

Indigo ~ handmade card

my latest lady lunary..

Indigo.. she came with the dark moon, from the watery depths.

approx size 8 X 6 inch


the insert is blank.. sang no verse this time..
she was immersed in the silence
that Novembers dark moon offered…

added to my misi shop.

fairy card

approx size 8 X 6 inch

added to my misi shop today


Namaste ...

birdwings

Your grief for what you’ve lost lifts a mirror
up to where you’re bravely working.


Expecting the worst, you look,
and instead, here’s the joyful face
you’ve been wanting to see.


Your hand opens and closes
and opens and closes.

If it were always a fist or always
stretched open,
you would be paralyzed.


Your deepest presence is in every small
contracting and expanding,


The two as beautifully balanced
and coordinated
as birdwings.


~ Rumi

mutoid ~ handmade card

this imperfection doodling is now this...

Mutoid is approx size - 8 X 6 inch.


the coloured parts are a metallic copper 
(doesn't show up well in the pics)... 

Accepting

liking the same things
life ~ synchronicity rings
yet ~ we’re so mismatched
see the beauty in that.

the verse is printed on the insert...

now the weekend is here..hope you all  have a good 'un...

falling leaves ~ handmade cards

These cards are prints - taken from one of the photos
of the ‘lady autumn~call’ card - and attached to
coloured card.


the words ’falling leaves…’ have been added to
the image, and ’…return to their roots’ is printed
up the left-side of the insert..

How's your week going? 
i've had a strangely productive week, this week.
i seem to have excess time on my hands..things are 
calm and flowing.. i thought the weekend was almost
upon us..so realising it's a few days away, makes a
pleasant change.  as does finding myself with loads
of energy and enthusiasm..in these cosy, darkening
days..for creating and practicalities.  have made quite
a few new cards..some just needing finishing touches,
then photos taken to list in the shop. got loads of images
floating around the grey matter too..new cards to be..as they
surface into doodles.

feeling relaxed as dark moon approaches..hope you are too..