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I have been away I know, Susan J Gottlieb on Facebook has captured me...today's chat is about the AXIS MUNDI...again.. there are multiple representations, across time and place, that signify the place where the divine and earthly realms meet. Yes, cathedrals, pyramids, temples are all A.M.s...more simply the smoke of an incense stick, a burned paper prayer....I think it most important to remember that the essential Axis Mundi is each one of us. We are, each, Spirit embodied in the Earthly realm.

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"There is an expression - walking with beauty. And I believe that this endless search for beauty in surroundings, in people, and in one's personal life, is the headstone of travel."

Juliette De Bairacli Levy, Traveler's Joy

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“If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.” - Henry Miller

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Literally laying out the pages! #americansketchbook

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An earlier post ( I think) I need the reminder...

As my mother, Miriam, wrote to me when I lived in Rome, of people she said...

"Some are lovers, givers, and others are not! Being an artist, artistic, you fall among those of the first category, and it is by and through whom these people, that the world turns with certainty. All the othes live at the expense of these people. The lover is always the one who lives most, experiences, most. Not to be able easily to give, to extend oneself, is to be locked up, truly."

To create is to love, to sacrifice, and to give. Creative thinkers work hard, take risks, pay attention and must be open. And what do you get for all this? Heightened sensory perception, great experiences, a magnificent lover for life.

The more I do, the more I see.

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