Buddha is born pointing to both the sky and earth *simultaneously*.
Pointing to the sky is pointing to the vast emptiness of our own true nature.
Pointing to the earth is pointing to the witness of “THIS”, where we sit and stand.
When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.
~Buddha
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Click to Buy: Sky and Earth e-Stamp!
The rare Transit of Venus will start occurring this afternoon!
Venus will cross paths between the sun and the Earth you will see a tiny dot (if your weather permits) floating across the surface of the sun.
An e-Stamp showcasing The Transit of Venus! … also a syzygy!
This photo is a courtesy of my friend John Cara and the following explanation:
The transit of Venus across the face of the Sun as seen from Earth are among the rarest of predictable astronomical events. They occur in a pattern repeating every 243 years in pairs 8 years apart separated by gaps of approximately 121.5 and 105.5 years. The last transit was 6/8/2004, the next is 6/5/2012. After that, it’s likely not a person alive today will see the next transit in December of 2117.
SYZYGY……is the alignment of three or more celestial bodies in the same gravitational system along a straight line. The word is usually used in context with the Sun, the Earth, and the Moon or a planet, where the latter is in conjunction or opposition.
Solar and lunar eclipses occur at “times of syzygy“, as do transits and occultations.
Syzygy is also the highest scoring word that can be played in Scrabble without using an a, e, i, o, or u.
Last fall I was invited by an online blogger
to participate in a collaborative project, The Paint-by-Number Exchange. Each participant was to select a Paint-By-Number kit to complete by hand and then to alter the image, giving it their own personal "twist" or embellishment according to their artistic expression. I chose "The Almond Branches in Bloom", Saint Remy – circa 1890 a phenomenal piece by my champion, painter
~ Vincent Van Gogh. (view here)
This "Paint-by-Number Exchange" was proposed by fellow artist blogger Jacquelyn Berl.
You can view the other 10 entries at her blog: www.AscenderRisesAbove.com
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After painting the image (provided by Famous Art Kits) by hand, I scanned the image to digitally incorporate clothing buttons as flower buttons and alter the image with a flowing ribbon of text.
I then converted the entire image into an e-Stamp.
The "All Mundi" part of the title for this e-Stamp is both a play on words (Al-Mond)
and a reference to the "All World" scope of the e-Stamp.
All-Mundi Button Branch • 50 kilobyte e-Stamp
archival pigment print on archival paper • Lisa Rivas © 2011 • All Rights Reserved
If friends were flowers, I would pick you!
You can purchase this print here, it would be a wonderful gift!
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So what is an e-Stamp? It's my original concept of a virtual postage stamp for emails. I envisioned the e-Stamp as an art stamp with a global intention, as a way to honor "the internet" which has helped to connect us humans. The nationality of the e-Stamp is www—World Wide Web—and the denominations are in kB for kilobytes or mB for megabytes.
My e-Stamps also exist in the tactile "real" world as prints, produced as giclees on a 9-color archival digital printer. Their formats can be totally variable and printed on different substrates.
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
~ Elizabeth Foley
In talking about flocks of bird and schools of fish… The swarm …moments when creatures lock themselves into a group "soul" letting go of their particular desires and needs as individual creatures and becoming one body with a transcendent intelligence directing them, creating patterns of motion so complex that they seem to have been choreographed from above.
~ (p. 90) The Creative Life, by Eric Butterworth
"SWARM" e-Stamp
• fused glass – illustration printed as an archival pigment print, 100% rag paper
Infinite Mind —everywhere present–is the highest frequency of energy, in which all things exist as complete. When you see the creative process clearly, your ideas will get synchronized with energy of the same frequency, multiplying in like kind. This is the swarming process. (pp. 88-89) The Creative Life, by Eric Butterworth
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In life, the issue is not control, but dynamic connectedness. ~Erich Jantsche
A staple in the Southern diet for over 300 years, black-eyed peas have long been associated with good luck. A dish of peas or lentils is a New Year's tradition in most areas, bringing good luck and prosperity for this New Year 2011.
Lisa Rivas © 2011 • archival pigment print on 100% rag paper • Black Eyed Peas
"Remember, black-eyed peas on New Year's Day brings good luck for the entire year!"