The weather is lousy and I have been missing my Bryce. Oh it’s still here, I just haven’t taken the time lately to play with it. In fact, I had some hard drive error that went through 1000’s of orphaned files on disk check and they were mostly in my Bryce folders so who knows how that program is now? I haven’t looked because I just don’t care to deal with it right now. 😀

“Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.”~Eleanor Roosevelt

This quote has stuck in my head ever since I heard it years and years ago. I love it and it’s so true. It also points out to me my own shortcomings. I guess I’d fall under the average category mostly, although I think there should be another category added. Sad minds discuss themselves. I have an entire blog devoted to supporting that theory. Why do I talk about myself? Am I really that self-centered?

I think it has much to do with the struggle for identity and validation. I think if it was changed to “secure minds” it would give it all new meaning. The lack of feeling secure enough to believe my ideas might be important is certainly a hindrance. I do have ideas, they just get lost under all the emotional baggage I carry with me everywhere I go. That stuff is always right there in front of everything and I’m constantly struggling with it so, heh, I talk about it. My God that must get boring for people!

I have met many very inspiring great minds in my lifetime. I’d say it gives me something to strive for. I’ll just add that to all my other things I struggle with. Oh but wait, there I am being a sad mind again, when what I really want to talk about are great minds. Like the uplifted feeling I get whenever I go to Barb’s blog and read her new posts without a hint of the angst that is in mine. She talks about the overall goodness in life and it seems like another world to me, but one I would love to join. She shares and includes us in every post.  So seriously folks, if you want good art, good conversation and a sense of having spent time with a wonderful friend get thee over to Over Coffee… you won’t regret it. 😉 Once you get there read her post and follow that one over to Teacher Time to meet another inspiring and compassionate great mind. What great minds have you met in your life? I hope it’s been many and varied.

Someday maybe I’ll be amongst the great minds that so enrich this world. I really hope so. Shoo now…go read and enjoy!

This month seems to be getting away from me. The garden, reading my crime boards and building a website for a friend has been taking all my time. I did sneak in a little time to actually open Bryce again recently. What do you think? 

Abstract art is defined as art that has no reference to any figurative reality. In its wider definition the term describes art that depicts real forms in a simplified or rather reduced way – keeping only an allusion of the original natural subject.

“Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for colours, and that you be a true poet. This last is essential.”
~ Wassily Kandinsky.

I’ve recently developed a real love for abstracts. Actually, I’ve always loved them but I wasn’t so good at making my own. As a Bryce user, there are many people who make these elaborate symmetrical designs and I appreciate them, but I do get rather tired seeing the same kind all the time.

As I mentioned before I totally love asymmetrical abstracts with pleasing colors. So it was a real pleasure to visit Barb’s post: Life’s Small Textures and see those gorgeous paintings! Inspires me to want to try with real paint someday. A good friend of mine started painting in oils and I think he gave up Bryce completely. He’s done some fabulous work too.

Here’s another of mine. Maybe someday I’ll give paint a try and be able to make something beautiful with that 😉

I never really had a thing for abstracts. I think because I wasn’t good good at them and so many people make totally symmetrical ones. I like the lopsided ones 😉