I saw this photo in The New York Times and couldn’t stop looking at it! And thought I would share:

It is from a modern wedding, a blended Hindu-Christian one at that, in NY’s central park.
But the henna that marks the bride’s hands is from the old…ancient even.
I am still entranced…
image source (c) John Marshall [...]

Tonight I’m in the mood for a bit of magic and travel…and these Persian rugs seemed like the perfect place to start…So where do you want to go? …Enjoy your ride

image sources 1 & 2 -via google images

With thanks to Joel for passing on a gem of an inspirational talk - I recommend this to everyone!
Ted talks: Jonathan Harris: The Art of Collecting Stories”…

Jonathan -any chance you want to collaborate one day?!?

A recovering perfectionist, I find this an important maxim: "Always make new mistakes"
 
 Thanks to hugh @ gaping void & esther.
 
 

Me loving my computer at any point of the day:
 

 
 (love the replacement of ’speech bubbles / ‘thought bubbles’ with balloons )

I think I have been avoiding blogging (and you all) a bit…like a lot of my creative works…including storytelling… As such I would like to give you a present as thanks for your patience and readership: here are two beautiful art-pieces that have been passed on by the ever wonderful Alice Tang of think/feel that [...]

"Relax…
Nothing is Under Control" 
- Mr. Booja-Booja
 
 
via Scott (thank you!) who connected with me via Booja Booja and boojabooja’s cards - see this post… And here are a few more of the older original cards - courtesy of Scott again…
 

 
thanks also to PW for the first booja-booja scent! Really want a "Relax…" card - if [...]

Walking through   I spied the above line drawing, (c) Markus Vater, in a (sadly closed) gallery window - and I quickly captured it, and Markus‘ name,  with my little mobile/cell-phone camera*for me to remember.
(*my times are changing, I do also jot in a notebook) 
Well today, I remembered him… Don’t you just love the [...]

I am fortunate to be ‘home-full’ - I have many homes around the world I am welcome. And I have lived in quite a few places…
As such concepts of ‘home’ are sometimes a bit abstract for me…Home can be where I am, where my family and friends are, where someone or something I love is. [...]

The other day I thought "Mondrian". And as I sat to write today it came back…
 At the same time, this very morning, I mapped out my family story project "the family forest" as if it was a patchwork quilt.
 
The quilt/grid I mapped out by hand had 24. 4 rows, 6 columns. I have perhaps [...]