Wise Words of Joseph Campbell

"The Privilege of a Lifetime is Being Who You Are." - Joseph Campbell

Something to consider whenever we hit those 'dark' patches of self-doubt.

Art by the amazing Susan Seddon Boulet.

 

Changes...

It's a full moon & lunar eclipse tonight hooray! And there are big shifts & changes afoot for many people... Bob said it best once upon a time...

Melancholia...

"A beautiful movie about the end of the world"....

I can't wait to see this film, especially after Margaret bestowed  upon it that elusive 5 star rating!  It just looks so visually rich and audibly spectacular (Wagner features heavily too throughout...oh the deep, dramatic ear-joy!)  And the subject matter is so profound, so provocative... the idea that someone can just -be- unhappy, so common yet almost always so hidden, so misunderstood. Here's more below in a featurette:

Sublime!

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In keeping with the Papillon Noir-esque theme of this post, today I matched my clothes to the sky and dressed in storm-cloud colours - 

smokeyblue, charcoal grey  & mushroom... 

"There's no such thing as bad weather, only unsuitable clothing!"  

- Alfred Wainwright, Britsh Fellwalker.

Here, Here!

Figs - food for thought....

"I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet."

-Sylvia Plath

Photo: © Jean-François Dessup - Fotolia.com

Green is the colour of rebirth...

Margaret Olley dies, aged 88.

Green was Painter Margaret Olley's favourite colour...  'green', she would say 'it's the colour of rebirth'.

I have a thing about paintings of mirrored reflections....and I love this one.  Here, she paints herself as a young artist in 1948, framed by the still objects and collectibles that would inspire her life's work and also by postcards of the works of the great masters whom she admired.  

Vale Margaret Olley and what a life well lived, doing, as she has said "The only thing I've wanted to do all my life."  And that's exactly what she did....  These words inspire me to refocus on my own direction in life and hopefully, gain more clarity as I continue on this winding and ever-changing path we call life.