Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention
of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.
Max Ernst (1891 - 1976)
…a Dada exhibition. Another one! What's the matter with everyone wanting to
make a museum piece out of Dada? Dada was a bomb … can you imagine anyone,
around half a century after a bomb explodes, wanting to collect the pieces,
sticking it together and displaying it?
Max Ernst (1891 - 1976)
http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Ernst.html
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/E/ernst.html
http://www.spamula.net/blog/archives/000198.html
The purpose of life is not to get rid of the butterflies in your
stomach,=20
but to make them fly in formation.
-Author unknown
Did you know that your anxiety can help you at work? Anxieties are a=20 signal; they are a warning system within us, saying "Halt!" "Look!"=20 "Listen!" Our anxieties are either honest fears or old, familiar feelings=20 we have carried irrationally from our past. If our anxieties come from=20 legitimate fears, we can face them honestly and move beyond them.
I like to think of anxiety as lying at the threshold of change. Often we feel anxiety when we are entering a new position, a new workplace, or=20 a new experience. These anxieties are natural; they are telling us that=20 we care about our performance. However, when we carry anxieties=20 from our past, such as those that come from old stories of self-doubt,=20 we face a challenge of another kind. We must trace the history of these=20 anxieties and find the primary sources. These anxieties often hover=20 about, leading us to a dead end. We can move through these anxieties=20 by respecting and working on them instead of burying them. Otherwise,=20 they will continue to haunt us.
Just for today, I will listen to my anxious feelings and ask myself=20 whether they are legitimate anxieties from the present or hovering=20 haunts that have been hiding in my closet.
>From the book Igniting the Spirit at Work...Daily Reflections
by Marilyn Mason