How You Know It's Love....

"Happiness isn't happiness without a violin-playing goat."
(art work by Chagall, quote from Notting Hill)

IT'S ZOMBIE SEASON!

GYPSY HORSE

Just remember: Keep the fuzzy side between you and the dirt.

AWAY WITH THE FAERIES

They say you have to be quite mad before you can see the faeries......

Victorian Fair

"I expect that woman will be the last thing civilized by Man."
~George Meredith

Garb Dog

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too."

~Samuel Butler, Notebooks, 1912

TO ONE IN BEDLAM

I am, and always have been, touched deep within my soul by not only the history of Bethlem but the works of the Renaissance painters as well. Who can say why we are drawn so profoundly to what we are. It appears to be one of (my) life's greatest mysteries. ~Mimi



With delicate, mad hands, behind his sordid bars,
Surely he hath his posies, which they tear and twine;
Those scentless wisps of straw, that miserably line
His strait, caged universe, whereat the dull world stares,

Pedant and pitiful. O, how his rapt gaze wars
With their stupidity! Know they what dreams divine
Lift his long, laughing reveries like enchaunted wine,
And make his melancholy germane to the stars?

O lamentable brother! if those pity thee,
Am I not fain of all thy lone eyes promise me;
Half a fool's kingdom, far from men who sow and reap,
All their days, vanity? Better than mortal flowers,
Thy moon-kissed roses seem: better than love or sleep,
The star-crowned solitude of thine oblivious hours!

~with acknowledgement to Ernest Dawson (1867-1900)
and Albrecht Durer (1471-1528)