IN THIS MOMENT - Blood

My husband just introduced me to this group - more mainstream than my usual taste but the tracks are deep and strong and beautifully dark and raw. The vulpine Maria Brink makes an incredible lead singer with an almost masculine voice on some tracks. So much power.

These two tracks in particular:

Whore

(this video is amazing)

Scarlet

Blue Boy - Painting from 1.24.13 at 2:00am

He said "make me blue". I said "okay."

lips

This weekend, we felt the glitter and the depth of the night together, and swooned to it in unison, not crashing against each other like flint and steel, but like waves that meld together.

Fauna to Flora - First Time Working With Color Pencils

(Note almost 2 weeks later: Working on this, I was pressing so hard with the color pencils that I lost feeling in the pads of my thumb and forefinger. The feeling in the pad of my thumb is still gone.)

Blue blossoms emerges in shades from the page.

a creature, in turn, emerges from the flowers. May I suggest, a dinosaur-turtle creature wearing a backpack, holding its pet plant on a leash.

Wanders into flora

 Starts to become flora

Transmogrification, complete.

ANGELDUST

Transporting. Perfection. Right. Now.

Time Jesum Transeuntum Et Non Riverentum

An excerpt of one of my favorite Nick Cave songs. 

Then we headed back to our world,
and left the forest behind, our hearts singing with all the knowledge of love.

But somewhere, somehow, we lost the message,along the way,and when we got home, we bought ourselves a house.
And we bought a car that we did not use,And we bought a cage,and two singing birds.And at night we'd sit and listen to the canary song.
For we'd both run right out of words.

Now the stars they are all angled wrong,and the sun and the moon refuse to burn.
But I remember a message, in a demon's hand,

Rumi Quotes

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” 

“Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.” 

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing 
and rightdoing there is a field.I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about.”


"I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.” 

"There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.
You feel it, don't you?” 

“I have lived on the lip
of insanity, wanting to know reasons,
knocking on a door. It opens.
I've been knocking from the inside.” 

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”


“The minute I heard my first love story,

“What you seek is seeking you.”

“There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.

“Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.” 

“I have lived on the lip

“Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again , come , come.” 

“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames”