LaWhimsy Dream Wandering

My awesome digital art piece Oread is up for votes on Threadless! If you’d follow this link (or click on the image above) and vote I’d be absolutely delighted!!! You can also check out my shop by following this link ~ LaWhimsy! Hope you have so many whimsical moments today!!! Namaste ~ Ella

“The most basic activism we can have in our lives is to live consciously in a nation living in fantasies.” ~ Bell Hooks An unconscionable chaos is playing out upon a world stage, yet what are we to do about it… “The most basic activism we can have in our lives is to live consciously in a nation living in fantasies.” Times are changing with hate-centered actions taking the loudest, scariest lead,…

“Rest is not a matter of doing absolutely nothing. Rest is repair.”  ~ Daniel W. Josselyn The days may be chaotic, yet the lure of rest beckons in cozy, dozy Winter ways… “Rest is not a matter of doing absolutely nothing. Rest is repair.” Rest, how we all long for it’s ease, it’s calm, it’s luscious allure of repose. How often, though, is rest considered wasteful, wrong, lazy, indolent? Why…

“Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.”  ~ Paul Theroux The days are growing shorter, the darkness more prevalent, and the stillness of the Earth more profound… “Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.” Tis the season of drawn-out nights of lingering darkness and shortened days with a distant sun. A time of quiet stillness in Nature and a sense of hibernation strong among…

“In complex times we are going to have complex emotions”  ~ Ella Patrice Emotions aren’t felt one at a time they are felt simultaneously in a variety of ways… “In complex times we are going to have complex emotions” There is a paradigm shifting happening that we are in the weird, chaotic throes of. Due to this, this holiday season is going to be one filled with a wide variety of deep and…

“Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them. You’re here. It’s our time and our life, not theirs.”  ~ Ayn Rand It’s not an easy road, but it’s my road… “Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them. You’re here. It’s our time and our life, not theirs.” As the world burns both figuratively and literally…

“Do not go gentle into that goodnight…rage against the dying of the light.” ~ Dylan Thomas Life shall continue and so shall the continued fight for equality for everyone… “Do not go gentle into that goodnight…rage against the dying of the light.” Another crushing blow to the freedom, safety, human rights, and equality for so very many has been delivered upon a misogynistic, hate-filled platter. …

“There are so many beautiful reasons to be happy.” ~ Life Life is a matter of perspective… “There are so many beautiful reasons to be happy.” It’s simply one of those Universal truths ~ There are, and always will be, just as many reasons to be happy as there are to be unhappy. What makes the difference in life – Your Life – is which mindset you actively choose to have, which reasons you choose to…

“I used to be ashamed of my scars until I realized they are reminders that I have found better days and that the journey to find them was worth it.” ~ Ella Patrice We all have scars, we all are marked by the life we live… “I used to be ashamed of my scars until I realized they are reminders that I have found better days and that the journey to find them was worth it.” I am quite scarred. Besides…

“We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are.” ~ Anaïs Nin We see through our eyes at all times… We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are.” This quote (which has been attributed to Anaïs Nin and also has been assigned a Talmudic origin) has a certain resonance in my soul. It’s a resonance that can clang about with all of the wild cacophony of a histrionic circus or…

This quote (which has been attributed to Anaïs Nin and also has been assigned a Talmudic origin) has a certain resonance in my soul, one that can clang about with all of the wild cacophony of a histrionic circus or ring with the sweet, lone clarity of a bell on a still night. It can be both mind-blowing and incredibly humbling to be reminded of how self-minded we, as individuals, can be. While…

Saturnine is defined of a person or their manner as slow and gloomy or of a person or their features as dark in coloring and moody or mysterious. Saturnine can also be used to describe someone born under or influenced astrologically by the planet Saturn. Saturnine derives from the Latin Saturninus (of Saturn). Saturnine was first used in the 15th century. Saturnine is an excellent descriptive…