Hello God!
Thank You for the breeze of tenderness I am feeling on my cheek now.
…Serene shore in silent morning
Orchids of orange joy
Lovers as natural as waves
Children laughing in the breeze
Ships as mystical as stars
How can I make you feel beautiful?..
The interrupted sleep by Francois Boucher, 1750
Have a tender weekend!
Hello God!
Thank You for today’s Inspiration You generously had showered on. I spent my today with a great impressionist artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. We were walking in Paris and admiring a parisian women. Renoir adores beautiful women. He said humorously that it is better to paint women than love them. Almost all his woman’s paintings are devoted to la femme a le chapeau. Woman in a hat is a symbol of feminity and charm.
“A hat is a flag, a shield, a bit of armor, and the badge of femininity. A hat is the difference between wearing clothes and wearing a costume; it’s the difference between being dressed and being dressed up; it’s the difference between looking adequate and looking your best. A hat is to be stylish in, to glow under, to flirt beneath, to make all others seem jealous over, and to make all men feel masculine about. A piece of magic is a hat,” Martha Sliter said.
“Fashion is a kind of communication. It’s a language without words. A great hat speaks for itself.” I love that.
“Whenever you wear your hat, your day will be special.” Louise Green is laughing: “Wearing a hat is like having a baby or a puppy; everyone stops to coo and talk about it.”
“Wearing a hat versus not wearing a hat is the difference between looking adequate and looking your best.” Martha Sliter inspires to buy a hat.
“You cannot hide in a hat; you will be noticed, especially by men. To men, you become a lady when you don a hat–one who they rush to open doors for. To women, you become an inspiration, reminding them that they have a closet full of hats they have not had the courage to wear.” The advice is good, I will follow.
A woman in a hat is always the ultimate sign of class, poise, and the fervor of a forgotten generation of ever-confident females. When you see a woman in a beautiful hat, you know she’s not afraid to be seen.
I am happy to share this charming video about Le Chapeau.
Oh, I am inspired by the idea to buy a hat for myself. I hope you are too. Let’s discover our Beauty in “jeans-and-t-shirt” routine. Our men will be happy!
Hello God!
Thank You for amazing today. I am playing with my daughter and kaleidoscope is our toy now. What’s a beautiful world inside! We are laughing together and my heart is full by a poem.
I am a simple girl,
I live in a Kaleidoscope World,
One by one the seasons turn,
Rain falls, Fire burns,
I try to hold on but things change,
Shapes and colors rearrange,
If we stayed still we’d never grow,
Like a tulip trapped in the snow,
The wheel of life is sometimes kind,
We never forget what we leave behind,
Dreams are timeless works of art,
All dreaming is painted by the heart,
My Kaleidoscope World spins around,
It whispers in color but makes no sound.
by Colleen Anne Carroll
I love today because I have this possibility to share this Masterpiece of Human Imagination and Creativity with you. The video is gorgeous.
I am impressed and inspired by this turn of kaleidoscope of my life. The colors are brilliant and I enjoy this treasure of Beauty I have found with you. Thank you for your help!
Hello God!
Thank You for the silence I am wrapped around by sweet sleeping of my daughter. I am feeling her breathing and listening the Glory Mass to Life playing by the orchestra and choir of my imagination.
The Ocean is beginning of life.
Breathing of waves is a rhythm of the Mass.
Whales are bass in our choir
All fishes sing in deep unison.
Re.
The Earth is our Mother.
She plays the piano solo.
Mountains and volcanos are
The piano keys. Her melody is Beauty.
Mi.
The Sun is Star
Its light is bright.
Sun rays are strings of Harp
The Universe loves.
Fa.
The Moon is singing Lullaby.
Her illuminating song feeds Dream
We have to turn into reality
Realizing the Potential.
Flowers are Violins bows
Playing on the strings of rain.
Laughing and joking notes build
The tune which is your Smile.
Photo and caption by Angela Elder
La.
There is Music in the Air.
French Horns, Trombones
Tuba and Trumpets are singing
Because of Air in your lungs.
Si.
Hummingbirds and butterflies are
First Violins and Soprano
Glorifying in the Mass
Perfection of Life!
As rainbow’s spectrum together is white light, we are in the white Harmony of silence which is the truth and music of Glory Mass to Life.
Tuk tuk tuk – our hearts are beating in white shimmering light by rhythm of breathing Life. Thank you for listening your heart. Your heart is mine too.
Hello God!
Thank You for Your Inspiration to invent and create an ice cream which is the life saver in hot weather. I am a troubadour today and my ballad is devoted to the Prince Ice Cream. Oh, Tram-param-ram-ram:
The loving child of King Ice
And Queen Milk
The Price Ice Cream is
Charming Dream.
He is blessed by Sugar and Vanilla.
Banana, Strawberries and Cherry
Always smile with Him in pleasure.
Romantic Flavor tickles
All hearts in happy dance of
Strings in Rainbow’s Harp.
He is young as April’s wind
Blowing and dispensing
Happiness around.
Thank you for this pleasure to share with you a cone of delicious ice creme in our happy summer today!
Hello God!
Thank You for the sky where stars twinkle all the time of our being. We are under Viennese sky again. I love bright and pulsing light of Elfriede Jelinek‘s Star Genius.
She is genius in her fragility beauty and intellect.
I think Elfriede Jelinek is the only woman who is gifted to open with pianist’s sensitivity complicated puzzled and mystique universe of Woman. To emphasize a fragility and beauty of woman let me accompany this post by nice paintings of the pianist (La Pianiste in French). She does not afraid to tell the truth about the banal and domestic horror of everyday life where woman can live and just how pathetic and awful we can be. Her “Women as lovers” is picturesque, I recommend to read the novel. Perhaps because “Very few women wait for Mr. Right. Most women take the first and worst Mr. Wrong,” Elfriede Jelinek explains in “The Piano Teacher”.
Her intellect is confirmed by The Nobel Prize in Literature 2004 “for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society’s clichés and their subjugating power”.
Jelinek studied music intensively from an early age. She graduated from the Vienna Conservatory and studied theater and art history at the University of Vienna. In a 2004 interview Jelinek explained, “My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak.”
Francis Day “The Piano Lesson” (1895)
“I have a feeling that you despise your body and that you only value art, you only value your argent needs, but eating and sleeping aren’t enough. You believe that your appearance is your enemy, and the only friend you have is music. Why look just in the mirror, look at your reflection, you’ll never find a better friend that yourself,” Elfriede advises in “The Piano Teacher”.
Pianist by John Michael Carter
I am listening miraculous music in her language: “When discussing Bach’s six Brandenburg concertos, the artistically aware person usually states, among other things, that when these masterpieces were composed, the stars were dancing in heavens. God and his dwelling place are always involved whenever these people talk about Bach.”
By the way “The Piano Teacher” was made into a feature film in 2001. This movie is unforgettable.
At the piano by Frederick Childe Hassam
“The world would be a lot better off if it paid more attention to its philosophers and artists than to its own tiny egotistic spirit, which lacks an overview. People should place their belief in Beethoven and Socrates”, Elfriede writes in “Wonderful, Wonderful Times”
Marguerite Gachet At The Piano by Vincent Van Gogh (1890)
Thank you very much for our walking under Viennese sky. Our hearts are beating in unison because from now, from this very moment, we place our belief in Beethoven and Socrates to make our world better.
Hello God!
Thank You for my dreams I see every night. I love to laugh in my dreams. Last night I saw wonderful and happy dream. I had met on the sofa, oh la la, with enigmatic Mr. F. We were laughing aloud until I had awoken and opened my eyes. Funny Mr. F. makes my happy today. Ha-ha-ha, it seems the dream have predicted that I am going to read the article “Playfulness and Humor in the Psychoanalytic Relationship”.
“In 2001, Time Magazine referred to Mr.F. as one of the most important thinkers of the last century. And in 2006 Newsweek article called him “history’s most debunked doctor” I am surprised by so ambivalent approach. Could you guess who is funny Mr. F.?
My previous posts were about Vienna and you know to think and write about this legendary city is impossible without light of its intellectual stars. The brightest from them is “father of psychoanalysis“, everybody guesses, Sigmund Freud.
“Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love,” Sigmund writes about his brain child.
The aim of psychoanalysis therapy is to release repressed emotions and experiences, i.e. make the unconscious conscious. He believes that nothing you do occurs by chance; every action and thought is motivated by your unconscious at some level.
A Freud slip is defined as a written or spoken mistake that brings insight to one’s unconscious desires, idea, and drive.
I have seen this wonderful design of chairs in Austria. What is your “free association” about the photo below? I associate the picture with a place of meeting of fishes from different seas like important diplomatic mission or group therapy as in “Finding Nemo” cartoon.
Sigmund Freud developed the use of “Talk Therapy”.
In psychoanalysis, the patient typically comes four times a week, lies on a couch, and attempts to communicate as openly and freely as possible, saying whatever comes to mind.
I love this joke:
Neurotics build castles in the sky.
Psychotics live in them.
Psychiatrists collect the rent.
Freud Sofa is below.
“The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ‘What does a woman want?'” Freud puzzled.
Prada, Prada knows the answer, dear funny Mr. F.
Thank you for your smile and happy mold (oh, Freud slip, I mean “mood”) :-)! I keep my happy mold (mood) because of you.
Hello God!
Thank You for my sophisticated tongue which is able to feel chocolate symphony by my whole existence. When I think about chocolate I can create a joyful poem devoted to your smile.
Pleasure lives
Where Sugar is loved.
Chocolate orchestra plays
When soul is full…
I am a conductor of
This Symphony.
It seems we are going to spend our weekend in the legendary city of pleasure. Vienna as unthinkable without music as unimaginable without its famous desserts.
Franz Landtmann opened Vienna’s most elegant Café in 1873.
Landtmann Cafe is known for many meetings of leading industrialists and politicians in Austria, and the preferred coffee house of, such as Sigmund Freud, Gustav Mahler, Peter Altenberg, Felix Salten, Emmerich Kálmán.
It is wonderful experience to listen and try conducting the symphony of desserts in Landtmann Cafe. I recommend.
And now, Ta Dam! Ta Dam! we are close to the culmination of Chocolate symphony: Zaher cake!
Sachertorte or Zaher (photo) cake is a specific type of chocolate cake, or torte, invented by Austrian Franz Sacher in 1832 for Prince Wenzel von Metternich in Vienna. The Prince have declared, “Let there be no shame on me tonight!” The torte created by Sacher have delighted Metternich’s guests, and the dessert received further attention.
I am reading the recipe as music scores for orchestra. Oh, I see the theme: chocolate, than crescendo Chocolate, than fortissimo CHOCOlate! I love that: “a layered chocolate cake filled with apricot jam is coated in Chocolate ganache and finished with a CHOCOlate glaze.”
Applauses and ovations to the orchestra and conductor are from grateful audience. Thank You for coming in my concert hall. I am grateful and happy to see you.
Hello God!
Thank You for the promising belief that we are on the right way and success is on. I love the Universe and my life. As the result of our love, successively, on the New Mood period I have caught the Seed from Universe’s Inspiration and now I am pregnant by success. What’s a miraculous sense of happy waiting!
Even my cactus believes and helps me.
I am a woman and I know what to be pregnant is. When I had received desired two stripes on the test I was on the seventh skye of happiness. “Nature keeps its job in the perfect way. My only task is to keep my mind and body in happy state”, I though. But, and I am sure every mother confirms it, it was not as easy as it sounded.
You know that “just waiting in natural way” is a hard job. Hormonal rebuilding makes tears and troubles like “Is my body comfortable enough for my baby?” or “Am I going to be a really good mother?”. Now I know what silly this fears and doubts were.
The same troubles I have now on my way to Success. My advantage is I know my doubts and fears are silly.
“Everything has a gestation period, a time period that must pass before things will come into form. If you plant a carrot seed, it takes about seven weeks for the sprout to make its above-dirt entrance. Bamboo, which can grow up to thirteen feet in as little as one week, takes up to seven years to break through the surface of the ground. But for seven long years it looks like absolutely nothing’s happening,” I am reading in “Harmonic Wealth” by James Arthur Ray.
I welcome my every tears because of crisis is a good stage. I am growing. I meet my fears with smiles because fears want to keep me in the safe place.
“Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confidence in the storms of spring without fear that after them may come no summer.” Rainer M. Rilke motivated.
I do not know what my success is about. Will is boy or girl born? Am I on the red carpet with Sharon Stone or playing the grand piano in Carnegie Hall? I do not know. At this very moment I have only belief in the vital force which leads me and my heart beats because of this force. What I am sure about is everything is possible. If I can imagine it I can archive it. My life is extraordinary because I am Masterpiece of God and I have no other choice to live my life.
Maslow said: ” If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.”
I know the time of birth of my Success is coming. I let you know, of course. I will be more than happy to inspire you by my life and my Success as I am inspired by yours now. I believe in you. Thank you for your belief in me. We are Success!
Hello God!
Thank You for a beautiful meetings with a beautiful people on my Way. Today is a wonderful day because I have met and inspired by a French Woman. “Like a rose, a woman is a woman is a woman. And the French woman enjoys being just that,” said Veronique Vienne.
All my mornings are magic. As usual after my morning piano class and before my first cup of coffee I read something like “365 interesting facts”. I was stumbled by the fact of today: Jeanne Calment acted in a film at the age of 114 and gave up smoking at the age of 117!!!
“Jeanne est jeune” in French I named this post means “Jeanne is young”. I think Jeanne Calment as a truly French woman would love the compliment I said. By the way at age 121, she released her two CDs, one in French and another in English titled, Maitresse du Temps (Time’s Mistress).
What’s a pleasure to immerse in French charm, elegance, vividness, and share with you my mood by accompaniment of beautiful photos by John French!
What did Ms. Calment do, that you and I can duplicate for health and longevity? “She never did anything special to stay in good health,” said French researcher Jean-Marie Robine. Calment herself credited an occasional glass of Port vine, diet rich in olive oil and chocolate.
She also recommended laughter as a recipe for longevity and jokes that “God must have forgotten me.” ( L’Oubliee de Dieu?). “I’ve only got one wrinkle and I’m sitting on it”. (Je n’ai jamai eu qu’une seule ride et je suis assise dessus.)
For skin care, she recommends olive oil and a dab of make-up. “All my life I’ve put olive oil on my skin and then just a puff of powder. I could never wear mascara, I cried too often when I laughed.”
Internationally, researchers are fascinated with Calment for both her longevity and her vitality. They attribute her longevity to her immunity to stress. She once said “ If you can’t do anything about it, don’t worry about it.”.
She took up fencing lessons at 85 and rode bicycle until 100.
She quit smoking only at 119, but her doctor said her abstinence was due to pride rather than health — she was too blind to light up herself, and hated asking someone to do it for her.
The next story I am amazed by is fascinating and charming, only French woman is able to do it. “In life, people sometimes make rotten deals,” said Jeanne about this deal.
Mrs. Calment left no heirs. She also outlived Andre-Francois Raffray, a lawyer who 32 years ago, when she was merely 90, bought the apartment she used to live in on a contingency contract. He would pay her 2,500 francs (now about $400) a month until she died, and then the apartment would become his.
Mr. Raffray died a year ago at 77, after paying Mrs. Calment more than $180,000, better than double the apartment’s market value. His family was still paying when she died.
Quote on her 120th birthday: I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I’m very lucky. I am happy to share with you this light touching of Jeanne’s life. Thank You for your smile.
Photographer John French
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