The trick to juggling is determining which balls are made of rubber
and which ones are made of glass. Anonymous
"Squares and Odd Balls" • digital • 72"H x 36"W • © Lisa Rivas
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There are some people who knock the pyramids because they don't have elevators.
Limited Edition Print of 20 – Stone Lithography – "Search"
Stone lithography and Monoprint on BFK Rives paper • 29"H x 22.5"W • © Lisa Rivas
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I laugh, I love, I hope, I try, I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry.
And I know you do the same things too, so we're really not that different, me and you.
Colin Raye (American country music singer)
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In this theater of man's life,
it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.
Pythagoras
original painting – private collection – Clarksburg, WV – USA – "Serenata"
watercolor, wax, rice paper, quilted • 36"H x 72"W • © Lisa Rivas
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This whole creation is essentially subjective,
and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once:
scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.
Carl Gustav Jung
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A distinctive cactus species is the "Claret Cup Cactus" with attractive reddish and cup shaped flowers, it is considered a hummingbird cactus. This is because a wide range of hummingbird species nourish and "sip" on the Claret Cup Cactus flower's nectar and assists it in their pollination process.
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The Hummingbird's feathers have little true color,
instead they reflect the light and this makes them look so brilliant and colorful.
If we reflect light and joy in our life we too will turn the ordinary into the beautiful.
They represent joy, optimism and sweetness ; a messenger and stopper of time!
The only place where your dream becomes "impossible" is in your own thinking.
Robert H. Schuller
original painting – private collection – Memphis, TN – USA – "Bird's Eye View"
watercolor, wax, rice paper, quilted • 60"H x 45"W • © Lisa Rivas
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226)