xoxo is amazing..please watch!

"XOXO" directed by Anna Palma from SWELL on Vimeo.

The Goode Life.....

Hi friends, I'm up at 3am, it happens sometimes.

I was browsing a fav blog of mine and read this wonderful post:




Self- Concept Thursday! Posted by CURLYNIKKI

Labels: body image, Positive Affirmations, self-esteem
A Message From the Universe: It would be the same

by Arcadia M. Maximo of The Goode Life
If suddenly and without warning, you had absolutely nothing to worry about, do you know what the world would begin to look like?
Un-huh, exactly the same as it does right now.
Alright, if suddenly you had absolutely nothing to be afraid of, do you know what you'd begin to look like right now?
Yeah, cool as ever.
OK, OK. If suddenly you had absolutely no expectations to live up to and no one to disappoint, do you know how free you'd suddenly be?
Yeah, same, same.
Get it? The only thing that would really change is your thoughts. And you don't need circumstances or other people to help you with that, do you?

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One of my mom's faves!

three amazing artist

                                                            art by Valentina Ramos


 I want to share three incredible artist that inspire me. Below are blurbs about who they are and what they represent in the art world. These thre artist are incredibly talented and have major buzz in the industry.

I am very proud of these ladies, they inspire me to use my painting talents, and explore my imagination!
Kara Walker, Brianna McCarthy, and Valentina Ramos see below posts!

Valentina Ramos

http://www.valentinadesign.com/

After 15 years working as a graphic designer, Valentina Ramos started to create other arts and crafts. From these creations, Valentina Design was born: her world of fantasies and dreams; where her uplifting drawings and designs took shape.




In her Miami studio, this Venezuelan artist spent countless happy hours playing with her paints and her Rapidograph Pens. She enjoys working with different materials, but black ink is one of the mediums you will always find in her original prints, paintings and drawings. Her love for artworks with little intricate details are a signature of her own drawing style
 
 

Brianna McCarthy

http://briannamccarthy.blogspot.com/

Brianna McCarthy is an artist who works in Trinidad &Tobago. In 2005 she exhibited work as part of the Trinidadian delegation to Venezuela for the Festival of Youth and Students XVI. In 2008 she showed a collection of drawings and paintings in a group exhibition at the Alice Yard in Trinidad and began an ongoing online exhibition of her work at briannamccarthy.blogspot.com. In 2009, her "12 Girls" was presented at Trinidad's Erotic Art Week, at the Brooklyn Bar Gallery. Brianna is currently working on a collaborative project, "Cc: Everybody" with artist, Rodell Warner. Cc:Everybody explores the modern dichotomy and interrelation between our public and private spaces and will be shown in Trinidad Erotic Art Week in July. She is also collaborating with The Cloth Design Company for Trinidad Fashion Week 2010 in May 2010.



Afro-Caribbean women have always been portrayed as strong, long-suffering, exoticised and picturesque beings against a backdrop of poverty, hardship, abuse and/or scorn. The range of emotional experience and expressions of our women in Caribbean art and culture have thus been limited to these circumstances. Her work exposes a new range of depth of expressions and emotions, which for the most part, are non existent in our recorded culture. Hopefully, her faces will add to, and possibly change the perceptions, relations and possibilities we hold for ourselves.

Kara Walker

http://www.learn.walkerart.org/

“One of my earliest memories involves sitting on my dad’s lap in his studio in the garage of our house and watching him draw. I remember thinking: ‘I want to do that, too,’ and I pretty much decided then and there at age 2½ or 3 that I was an artist just like Dad.” —Kara Walker 1


Kara Walker (American, b. 1969) is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes that examine the underbelly of America's racial and gender tensions. Her works often address such highly charged themes as power, repression, history, race, and sexuality. Born in Stockton, California, Walker moved to the South at age 13 when her father, artist Larry Walker, accepted a position at Georgia State University and her family relocated to Stone Mountain, a suburb of Atlanta. Focusing on painting and printmaking in college, she received her BFA from the Atlanta College of Art in 1991 and her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1994. Walker was included in the 1997 Biennial exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Later that year, at the age of 27, she became the youngest recipient of the prestigious John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's "genius" grant, which launched a public controversy around her work. In 2002 she was chosen to represent the United States in the São Paulo Biennial in Brazil. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is included in the collections of major museums worldwide. The 2007 Walker Art Center–organized exhibition Kara Walker: My Complement, My Oppressor, My Enemy, My Love is the artist's first full-scale U.S. museum survey. Walker currently lives in New York, where she is a professor of visual arts in the MFA program at Columbia University.

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words from me..

Please meditate on what's real-
our lives are like a vapor that appears for a moment then vanishes, don't get caught up in the world so much
that you get besides yourself. Love your self, take care of yourself, and love others the same. Don't make this life so complicated i'ts okay to live simply and keep your humility and peace of mind.

Love,

Kiki

humility

 

 

Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, "If anyone wants to be first, he must be the very last, and the servant of all." Mark 9:35

This life...will kill you

If you let it...

For I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do everything through him who gives me strength. (Philippians 4:10-13)


The secret-
A Godly attitude, as one of composure and calm in the presence of troubles or annoyances.

hope

Hi friends! You know what I love about life, when your having a hard time you always have hope! No matter how bad things get the reality is that it will change, this is constant, and there is always something to look foward to.

What are you looking foward to in the near future? Well whatever it is contemplate on that and not the problem that you are in now.

Love,

Kiki

john 16:33

"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."

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lyrics
Seems the wisdom of man hasn't got much wiser

Than the very beginning of our time
Agree or war has been our way of compromising
Let live and love has become our biggest lie

Seems to me that fools are even more foolish
Thinking of themselves and nobody else
But then if asked for poor will riches be replenished
They say boot straps must be pulled up by themselves

Feeding off the love of the land

Leaving much to be desired

Living off the love of the Lord


While the price for life is higher
Isn't love to be admired

Has the good in man expired

Stealing all the love and the beauty from the land

I awake each morning to the birds a-singing
Singing out to God to come and save his own
But when throughout the world the cry of love is ringing
Is then when He'll stop to hear our song

Did you know that when you feel the earth a-shaken
It's only mother nature with a crying heart
You see we have taken from her for so many ages
Will there be a time when taking stops and giving starts

'Cause we're feeding off the love of the land


Leaving much to be desired

Living off the love of the Lord

While the price for life is higher

Isn't love to be admired

Has the good in man expired

Stealing all the love and the beauty from the land

Yes we are feeding off the love of the land

Never hearing what He's saying

Living off the love of the Lord

Never feeling what you're praying

Never praising Him for beauty

Only praying God please give me



Stealing all the love and the beauty from the land

Stealing all the love and the beauty from His land

wisdom...(conclusion) part 3

To renew your mind in the likeness of God is to emerge like a butterfly from it's chrysalis.



In my concluding post for this three part series concerning wisdom, I will start with a portion of a very compelling scripture :


Romans 12:2
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind... ( read again, let this marinate)

I want to conclude with a short thought, I don't want to overwhelm you or say too much, just enough to remember :)

I have just started my quest on the renewing of my mind. I am finding more and more that all we need in this
wretched world of ours is love, and we should do everything in our power to attain it. We work day in and out; bleeding, sweating, fighting, to make a living, worring about tomorrow. Do we really work that hard as
servents of the living God? Are you striving to renew your mind? If you are in the same state of mind you are in now as you were a year ago, six months ago for that matter, are you growing?? becoming wiser??incresing in love and peace??

I hope you are, I hope I am, I hope we will together.

love Kiki

Love never fails....And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
 portion from 1 Corinthians 13

Gandhi

"What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another."

— Mahatma Gandhi

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wisdom 2 of 3

Change your mind!

In this first post on part 2, I want to write a little note about the power you have to change your mind. 
These are powers that we all have, but we don't always take advantage of. 
Life is full of emotions 
and sometimes were not sure what to do about the feelings we have. Instead of facing them we'll have a drink, smoke, bottle it inside, or just have a nasty attitude. We are all believers in the strength 
of God, and we should honor the God that resides in us. 
An example would be the after math of an argument, you're angry, and the conversation plays in your head over and over, you may even think of bringing it up again. Just let it go, and change your mind from frustration to contentment. 
There is nothing wrong with being angry, or anxious from time to time, or even having a drink from time, to time. It's not okay to let these things consume us, or to use it to disguise pain, or emotion. 
The power to change your mind is HUGE! All you have to do is..... do it. Put your egos aside and let the love you have inside be your strength. Fighting your ego is hard, but once you have conquered it you can find eternal bliss.


I'm still working on this every day, every hour!!!!


Love 


Kiki






Uncle Iroh 

"It is important to draw wisdom from different places. If you take it from only one place it become rigid and stale."




Scripture:




Proverbs 19:11
A man's wisdom gives him patience;
  it is to his glory to overlook an offense.


Proverbs 24:3
By wisdom a house is built,
   and through understanding it is 
           established;
through knowledge its rooms are filled
   with rare and beautiful treasures.
A wise man has great power,
    and a man of knowledge increases
           strength;
for waging war you need guidance,
  and for victory many advisers.




Proverbs 27:19
As water reflects a face,
  so a man's heart reflects the man.
Death and Destruction are never satisfied,
    and neither are the eyes of man.




Ecclesiastes 5:2
Do not be quick with your mouth
  do not be hasty in your heart
   to utter anything before God.
God is in heaven
    and you are on earth,
     so let your words be few.
As a dream comes when there are many cares,
  so the speech of a fool when there are 
       many words.


Ecclesiastes 6:10
Do not say "Why were the old days 
     better than these?"
For it is not wise to ask such questions.


Wisdom, like inheritance, is a good
        thing
   and benefits those who see the sun.
Wisdom is a shelter
     as money is a shelter,
but the advantage of knowledge is this;
  that wisdom preserves the life of its 
        possessor. 


Ecclesiastes 4 (last line)
... calmness can lay great errors to rest.






Eat Pray Love

This book has many wise words in it. Remember not to draw wisdom from one place, and listen 

to what different kinds of people have to say, you don't have to agree, but you never 

know the different ways you can increase your knowledge. 

This book talks a lot about meditation in India which I LOVED. It also 

talks about serious depression and anxiety.

It's really for women, cuz it gets really really love mushy with to-good-to-be-true moments.

A paragraph from Eat pray love, Page 179:

So I've started being vigilant about watching my thoughts all day, and monitoring them. I repeat 

this vow about 700 times a day: " I will not harbor

unhealthy thoughts anymore." Every time a diminishing thought arises, i repeat the vow. I will not harbor 

unhealthy thoughts anymore. The first time I heard myself say this, my inner ear perked up at the word "harbor," which is a noun as well as a verb. A harbor of course, is a place of refuge, a port of entry. I pictured the harbor of my mind-a little beat-up, perhaps, a little storm-worn, but well situated and with a nice depth. The harbor of my mind is an open bay, the only access to the island of my Self (which is a young and volcanic island, yes but fertile and promising). This island has been through some wars, it is true, but it is now committed to peace, under a new leader (me) who has instituted new policies to protect the place. And now- let the word go out across the seven seas- there are much, much stricter laws on the books about who may enter this harbor.

You may not come here anymore with your hard and abusive thoughts, with your plague ships of thoughts, with our slave ships of thoughts- all these will be turned away. Likewise, any thoughts

that are filled with angry or starving exiles, with malcontents and pamphleteers, mutineers and violent assassins, desperate prostitutes, pimps and seditious stowaways- you may not come here anymore, either. Cannibalistic thoughts, for obvious reasons, will no longer be received. Even missionaries will be screened carefully, for sincerity. This is a peaceful harbor, the entryway to a fine and proud island that is only now beginning to cultivate tranquillity. If you can abide by these new laws, my dear thoughts, then you are welcome in my mind-otherwise, I shall turn you all back toward the sea from whence you came. 

That is my mission, and it will never end.

-Elizabeth Gilbert

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