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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Holidays with Family

Spending time with family is a gift. Many people, or if not situations, have tried hard enough to break your relationship with them. Yes, somehow you cannot deny the fact that being with them is just precious and lovely. It is like no matter what they do and no matter what happened, or even at times that you felt so annoyed with them, love just overflows when everyone spends time together over a cup of coffee while looking through wall paintings online.

Holiday season is the time to spend time with family--- of whether you call it quality or not quality in terms of how grandiose or how mediocre you celebrate time with them. Being with people who witnessed your childhood and had been a part of it is just amazing. You remember the days while you were young with them. You recalled too when was the time each left home to start a new life somewhere else or with someone else and just regularly connected back to family during holidays or for some special events to grace. Along with family members, you recall the landscape painting that has been hanging in the wall for decades or ever since the time you started seeing the things around you, months after you were born. Such art reminded you of what the family had undergone and had become throughout the years. It is nice to see that everyone is progressing and looking through things around, you know how well things have developed in everyone’s lives. As in you end, things have been quite a challenge ever since but it does not matter anymore. You bet you are born stronger than anyone else to carry heavy loads. And as they say, the stronger you are or the more gifted you are in so many ways, the more responsibility you need to carry. Life may not be easy for you and everything feels so light when you are with them.

With family, things need not to be grand. The simplest dish can be enjoyed by all. Each feels the warmth the other has to offer. Family is a great refuge to anything that happens in life. Even looking through artworks for sale can be meaningful if your search is shared to people who can be possibly aware of your choice prior to your selection.

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

The Dream of Living in Beauty

Every woman is obsessed to anything beautiful like that of a brilliant landscape wall painting. And this includes being fascinated with fine things that she sees around. Part of what she wants to complete her love for beauty is to own a house. Yes, that would luxury houses like mansions or castles where there are servants and maidservants left and right. Wow, that is fantasy. Such a magnificent sight for her! It feels so Cleopatra, the princesses and the queens.

Unfortunately, only few women live like as the above-mentioned. Mansions houses are fine if you can employ house help left and right. Otherwise, you end up maintaining hectares all by yourself. No matter how awesome and majestic are the sights that surround you, if you are the one to look like filth, then what is the beauty for? But if you can really afford to get grand places, then might as well get a luxury condo unit with brilliant furnishing, expensive and sophisticated pieces of furniture. Surely, amenities will not be a problem from gym, studio, to Jacuzzi- you have everything fine. Wow, living in something like this is a dream actualized and you fee l like a goddess personified to the highest level! But for many women, settling for less is a must, sometimes, for them to at least end up to nothing at all. There are affordable condominium units around. These are small pads enough for one or two people. Match this with affordable arts and some nice and cute furniture, then what you have is a cozy domain. Settle for this, meanwhile. And who knows, years from now you’ll get what it takes to own your dream condominium unit in the heart of the city. Nothing is impossible as long as you are alive.

Women are dreamers. The reason behind this is that it is a woman-nature to seek for what is ideal—perfection. And true, we are just born to appreciate the finest of things. We are the ones who appreciate and admire the beauty that we see with our fellow ladies. We know which among the many landscape paintings is attractive without looking at the details. Convenience and beauty just simply catch our hearts.

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Excited for a Small Pad

If it is just you and your child who live together during regular days, then a small condominium unit suit you. Much better if such small place would be classy enough to make both of you feel comfortable. Yet, a small pad of few square meters is expected to be really simple. Nothing stunning is expected from it, not unless it will be complete with furnishing and a few selected furniture for, let say’, Asian art.

We do not expect a not so pricey pad to be elegant but location-wise, a unit in a developing urban spot can really be promising. Development had started years ago. Five years more from now, then there will be more sights to see in the area. However, you think of the pad to be really small to entertain at least a couple of visitors. But this does not matter anymore. As long as you and your son can live, hopefully, peacefully and happy, then that can be better than being surrounded with people who keep on stressing you out. Oh how you dream to have a classy and sophisticated condominium unit in the heart of the most premium business hub in the country. But monetary-wise, you are not that privileged to own one there. It is sad to settle for less. But then, all the more that it will be difficult not to open your eyes to reality. Maybe the best person to represent the best of Asian art can afford such magnificence but as for you, settling for a quiet pad in the suburb will be fine. Let no intruder, paparazzi, underground harassers, and gossipers come close. The pad is small to just fit in a couple of tenants. But then, you know it is even far better than that of the spot where you are at now. Somehow, it is exciting to fix your new place. You need to salvage some old stuff to arrange in the new pad. Buying new ones may not be the most feasible thing you see for now given than some amount need to be spent for move-in fees and other related expenses.

Months from now, hopefully, some new stuff to include affordable arts will come in, along with completion of furnishing to, at least, make your little room a bit cozy. Staying inside can be very comfortable and when things become really boring, a 5-minuite drive to the park, to dining hubs, and to fine boutiques may be relaxing.

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Make Complicated Work

Marriages cannot be all about bliss. You will give endless thanks to heavens if you bumped in to someone who happens to be your soulmate, your destiny, your perfect match or whatever you call it. If not, and things became complicated between the two of you, then better make some arrangement if situations are too way beyond repair like a cracked wall painting from angle to angle.

To make your partner as your enemy is the last thing you want in your mind. It is not only the bad that you shared with him but also years of goodness. Just as what people say, try to remember the good things that people have done for you, no matter how painful the recent act is. Although this is not easy to understand while the damage is still fresh. Yet, there is nothing better than to end up as friends. This may sound impossible for others but for years of no romance, for years of living in one roof yet being estranged to each other, being friends is a best choice than to hate each other. Simply put, friendship over the damage done to each other is more than to what we deem as just fair. You may not be together in a regular basis but in times of need, you know you are there for each other. And when it comes to obligation of still making things work financially, hopefully you still have each other’s cooperation. Yet of course you do not expect the other to be with you during minor events like looking through artworks for sale.

All the more that it becomes ideal when the two of you as friends and family can own a house where, as usual, each has a room of his or her own. And how ideal it can be when the two of you finally meet your new someone to have and to hold, and each of the new partners accept and understand the strange set- up you share with your ex- partner aka friend. Things are extremely complicated but all things can be arranged once the need calls for it and this is when another party has to be a part of a complicated circle. Marriages are not perfect. There are those who live unhappily together while there are some who are just extremely fortunate to love each other for life and are perfect subjects for romantic wall paintings. Yet no matter what type of relationship you have with your partner, you can count on the fact that despite overflow of rage you have in your heart towards the other, you know how much you will always care.

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Overcoming Harassment and the Arts

Striving to live life to the fullest despite underground
harassment, being emotionally and mentally manipulated, and the usual
day-to-day stress is an art, in fact it is not just an affordable art but a
free one that people can have through the power of right thinking, faith, and
commitment to the beauty of life.

As long as there is a zest for life, even a high stage of
depression will not lead to suicide. Why give up life for people and situations
who and that are not worthy. Such thinking is an art itself! Harassment can be
brutal or subtle. You expect brutal harassment from people who is being carried
away by passion—maybe passion of wrath or fury. This may extremely look evil but
then the subtle one is more of serving an agenda, a scheme of inflicting damage
or destruction to someone for a reason. This is done clean yet nothing can be
darker than this. And if Biblical quote and other holy books will be taken into
consideration, this is the one extremely abhorred by the One as believed by
people to be the almighty of all. Knowing that, there is no reason to feel
defeated but more empowered and living a life with zest despite silence is an
inspiration that no wall painting of great artists can ever capture.

The willingness to live in goodness despite all the
aforementioned obstacles is one affordable art. It just takes nutrition, will
power, and faith, and of course a source of income to pay for it. As long as
these are still present, there is hope to live. Happiness can be claimed no
matter how hard. And amid harassment, with this happiness within and to one
self, love is again possible. This is an art—the most difficult form of when
compared to music, dance, poetry, and wall paintings. The truth is while one is
being busy restoring her life and living her life to fullness once again, the
people who are pre-occupied harassing her and devoting their time to damage her
have been losing much of their time because they have been so busy enough to live
yours and if what these people are doing means money for them in the long run,
this cannot pay for the damage they inflict to themselves which they will
realize in God’s perfect timing. Such thought is consoling. It is beautiful.
Art may not mean beautiful all the time but definitely anything beautiful is an
art.

Monday, November 28, 2011

Greet your Morning Right!

Waking up in the morning is crucial to make or break your day. The day may be too long and unexpected ugly situations may arise sometime in the day but then nothing beats a morning when you are in a good mood to just sound trip while sipping your hot drink. Dust off a nice wall painting as it greets you with a brilliant day and you are good to smile humming with birds around.

Music in the background in whatever you do does not just inspire you over something or influence your mood but it starts your day with something to look forward to and that is happiness. You may wake up feeling in love, meditative, or nostalgic and there is always this song to support what you feel. And yes, you do not feel alone. You have a friend somewhere. It feels like the person singing sympathizes with your emotion. It seems that he understands. And if this is a soundtrack in the movie, you feel the actors and actresses with you. It feels like that the writer is sent by the heaven above to console you because God knows one day, one time you will feel this certain emotion and you needed to feel that He is there with you. Of whatever you feel, if you want to unleash the rock and roll personality in you, the wild and sexy in you, the sentimental fool in you, the holy in you, the hip and cool you, then there is a perfect music for you because the One who loves you truly, madly, deeply, wants to be with you from time to time. This does not apply to music alone but to all forms of arts. Because arts in entirety is also a venue where spirituality which is higher than our physical being resides. This is why artworks for sale that we see, no matter how expensive, are still given generously to the public.

Talent is the source of this artistic works. Talent is a gift from God. It does not necessarily mean that your wonderful voice is meant for gospel songs because such talent is to serve humanity. With it people never feel alone. But an art used to hit a person or used as part of an evil scheme to damage someone will be the same thing to be used to destroy the artist. There is no escape to it as to how God blesses the artist with so much happiness within as they see themselves as talented ones being appreciated.

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Friday, November 25, 2011

Your Art Match Made in Heaven





Art is happiness and so is happiness an art. Without this,
there is no entertainment. Amid the day-to-day stress, what people need is
entertainment. There are many forms of these yet there is at least one that perfectly
matches the interest of an individual.

Wall painting may take one to meditation just by looking at the piece
while music or dance for most is medium to overcome stress.
Whatever triggers an individuals’ emotion, passion, and
imagination is his art. Whatever keeps
his mind occupied of thinking over something is the talent hiding within him.
Music is for all but there are few who when listening to music gets carried
away. And in best scenario, it is not just emotion that is being triggered but
imagination is stimulated. And with this around, concentration over something
else is quite a challenge. There you
know, it is your art match made in heaven, meaning it is your talent—a gift.
Lucky for those who have not just been enjoying his own art but making this
known to public or better yet, making this as his one profitable and productive
career. And for those whose work is otherwise, discovering their true art is a
first step, and it is just up to them if they will make use of it as a career
or just simply make this as form of their entertainment to make their day
beautiful. And make them realize that life is worth living enough with this
pleasure which for others is simple but for the ones who have this gift in them,
they aren’t as described at all but one grand source of pleasure.

Wall paintings can make the life of a few boring but for an
artist whose life and whose fascination is painting these make his or her day.
It is either he creates one for past-time or make it as part of his business.
And in most of the time, looking through his own collection or even as that of
the others is already a stress-reliever for him—good enough to take away his
worries for the time being.

But others are more specified in their art form. As
for music, there are people who are hooked to jazz while many would love
dancing to the beat of hip hop. The same goes for painting. Others go for
abstract while some prefer portrait or if not the style, then its genre if it
is classic or contemporary, or over the medium used, for instance. Many would
love lacquer but then for the sophisticated ones, nothing beats an original oil
painting.