New Beginnings are often disguised as painful endings. –Lao Tzu
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Kaleidoscope #864
Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.
–Brad Paisley
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Kaleidoscope #863
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.
― Gilda Radner
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Kaleidoscope #862
Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use – do the work you want to see done.
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
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Kaleidoscope #861
Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the ‘creative bug’ is just a wee voice telling you, ‘I’d like my crayons back, please.’
― Hugh MacLeod, Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity
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Kaleidoscope #860
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.
― Alice Walke
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Kaleidoscope #859
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
Below is the original photo used to create this image. I found this lovely white bloom outside of a restaurant in Bon Air, VA. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.
Kaleidoscope #858
Just hear those sleigh bells jingle-ing ring ting tingle-ing, too
Come on, it’s lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you
Let’s take the road before us and sing a chorus or two
Come on, it’s lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you
Wishing you the merriest of holidays, filled with hugs and kisses, smiles and love!
Lyrics for this version of “Sleigh Ride” can be found here. Songwriters: Leroy Anderson / Mitchell Parish Sleigh Ride lyrics © EMI Music Publishing, BMG Rights Management . Performed by Andy Williams and many others.
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Kaleidoscope #857
Giddy up jingle horse, pick up your feet
Jingle around the clock
Mix and a mingle to a jinglin’ beat
That’s the jingle bell rock
Lyrics for this version of “Jingle Bell Rock” may be found here. Songwriters: Joseph Beal, James Boothe. Performed by The Brian Setzer Orchestra and many others.
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Kaleidoscope #856
There’s a happy feeling nothing in the world can buy
When they pass around the coffee and the pumpkin pie
It’ll nearly be like a picture print by Currier and Ives
These wonderful things are the things we remember all through our lives
Lyrics for this version of “Sleigh Ride” can be found here. Songwriters: Leroy Anderson / Mitchell Parish Sleigh Ride lyrics © EMI Music Publishing, BMG Rights Management . Performed by Andy Williams and many others.
Below is the original photo used to create this image. It’s a gathering of purple ornaments from my holiday stash. No special lighting or effects, just a snap from my smartphone.
D.M. Sessous: writer, artist & dreamer 