When we look into the sky...

I want to talk about the sky today.

They say if you shoot for the moon, chances are you may not reach it, but...you might land between the stars...

Why do stars become stars in our earthly life? Let's take the Beatles or Madonna?

They pursue their dreams, they do what they Love! They have found themselves literally, they have discovered themselves first, before others discovered them... They know what they want and who they are, and they just go with it. Besides, they do not spend energies worrying about the nonsense of life. You can never please everybody. If you try, you’ll lose yourself in an instant. Just focus on what brings you the most joy and everything else will just unfold...

And about stars...within and throughout:

Under The Milky Way
 Painting by Kristen Bailey

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” 

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“We all shine on...like the moon and the stars and the sun...we all shine on...come on and on and on...” 

― John Lennon

“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.” 

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend...I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don't last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend...” 

― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives

“In a world turned upside-down, where everything was wrong, bizarre, you could at least look up at the sky and see normality. Stars that shone regardless of who won a civil war, or who should or should not be a president. Their light was billions of years old. They didn't have a care...” 

― Alex Scarrow, The Eternal War

“When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe.” 

― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Einstein's Quotes

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. 

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. 

-Albert Einstein

Johnny Depp Quotes

Creative Art by Jeannette Woitzik

I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.

There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.

I'm not sure I'm adult yet. 

Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic. 

Remembering 9.11

Embracing ever so gently the curve of yellow playmate,

You’re breaking strings to shatters and pierce stiffened sky

Here moves the dome of heaven so vast and ever so endless

It’s wonderful that all of us have gathered here today.

Reflections of the sunset are gleaming through the branches

Don’t be so sad my playmate, look up and shed a smile

Someone will tap your shoulder and whisper ever so gently

How wonderful that all of us have gathered here today.

And yet, with pain and heartache we will recall the others,

Whose names engraved in ashes are burning until dawn

We’ll sing this song to heavens, we won’t forget you ever

How wonderful that all of us have gathered here today.

2012

Pablo Picasso

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea. 

Everything you can imagine is real. 

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. 

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

- Pablo Picasso
 

The Day I Die

This poem is written in loving memory of a friend whose journey through life ended abruptly...but who will remain in people's hearts forever. We met today 11 years ago, and today I want to share these words...Enjoy your last endless flight Dmitry Maslennikov

The day I die I’ll turn to wind

Which will be living above your house

The day you die you’ll turn to sunlight

Which will be high above the clouds

October morning I’ll be somewhere

Around the world and saying vows

To you, my sweet and dear sunlight,

Come, shine on me, let’s break the clouds.

Oh  please, don’t turn to sunlight now

It is too early to say the vows

I will make sure you are breathing,

I will be praying while you’re sleeping

And I will listen to your heart beating

Until I turn to wind.

The day I die I’ll turn to snow

And  slowly fall onto the ground

The day you die you’ll turn to wind

And  you will catch me half way down

The day you die you’ll turn to sunlight

And you will shine towards the ground

The day I die I’ll turn to flower

You’ll make me bloom without a doubt.

2008

Study

The questions are diamonds you hold in the light.  Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.  The same questions, asked again, bring you just the answers you need just the minute you need them.

-Richard Bach 

About Time

Dali, The Persistence of Memory

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

-Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

Reading

Reading is human contact, and the range of our human contacts is what makes us what we are. Just imagine you live the life of a long-distance truck driver. The books that you read are like the travelers you take into your cab. If you give lifts to people who are cultured and profound, you'll learn a lot from them. If you pick up fools, you'll turn into a fool yourself.

-Victor Pelevin, The Sacred Book of The Werewolf