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Web of Enlightenment by Darnita L Howard

Good day lovelies,

Guess what? It's giveaway time!  I have reached over 10,000 views here "At the Art of It" and to show my gratitude for you being with me along this journey, I am giving away an 11 x 14 matted Web of Enlightenment print. To enter, leave a comment below answering the following question: "What message of wisdom has influenced your life?" The deadline is Tuesday, September 17th.

Teaching Fractals

Image: http://www.sxc.hu

Next week, I will be standing in front of middle schoolers discussing the wonderful world of fractals. This is a moment where I am feeling much joy as well as anxiety. Here I am being vulnerable in front of other vulnerable beings in hopes that what I share will click for them. As I prepare for this presentation, I am consciously thinking about this age group and how I was at that age. I was very much into math and science and I always enjoyed the ooh and aah moments that these subjects brought. But, I also remember that not everyone was as enthusiastic. And that my dear is why I am anxious. I know I shouldn't be hard on myself, but sometimes my ego likes to get me in a tizzy. My ego wants all of the students to go "I love fractals!" or even "Thank you so much, Ms. Darnita. I learned something amazing today." (sigh) Back to reality and all I can really hope for is that I show up in the way Spirit has me show up on that day and that the students take a bit of something new with them. Shouldn't that be enough? Yeah. OK, I'm better now.

The Beauty of Chaoscope

Being a Vessel

 

 Good day lovely!

For a few weeks, I have been exploring further into my love of fractals. With the various software available to create fractals, the possibilities of what you can achieve seems to be limitless. While I still develop most of my fractals with Tierazon, I have been loving Chaoscope. Here is just a sampling of what I've been doing lately. People have asked about tutorials, so maybe that will be a great project for me in the near future.

Shell

Delicate

Gabriel's Horn

Vessel 3

Inhale 2

Amazing Seattle Fractals

I have good news to share. The great fractal artist Doug Harrington of Amazing Seattle Fractals has Guest Galleries where fellow fractal artists can contribute their works. And guess who is their recent conributor? Me of course. The two works I have on the site are Heavenly Hosts and Stringing Along. Why not stop by? What another great way to share my art in the world. Love you guys and by the way, Picture Positive will be returning momentarily.

Day 104: Picture Positive

Enjoying the Moment

"The more I give myself permission to live in the moment and enjoy it without feeling guilty or judgmental about any other time, the better I feel about the quality of my work."

--Wayne Dyer

Day 103: Picture Positve

Somewhere out There

"When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system."

--Kalpana Chawla

Day 102: Picture Positive

Growing as Nature Intended

"Growth is the only evidence of life."

--John Henry Newman

Day 101: Picture Positive

Splendor for a Day

"Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn! Look to this Day! For it is Life, the very Life of Life. In its brief course lie all the Verities and Realities of your Existence. The Bliss of Growth, The Glory of Action, The Splendor of Beauty; For Yesterday is but a Dream, And To-morrow is only a Vision; But To-day well lived makes Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness, And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope. Look well therefore to this Day! Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!"

--Kalidasa

Day 100: Picture Positive

Woohoo! Day 100! Let's celebrate! It took a long time to get here and there's much more to come. I'm proud of myself. Thanks for everyone staying on the course with me.

When Everything is Aligned

"Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance."

--Brian Tracy

Day 99: Picture Positive

Elevated

"There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves."

--Francois de La Rochefoucald

Day 98: Picture Positive

In Position

"Yoga doesn't take time, it gives time. "

--Ganga White

Day 97: Picture Positive

Lotus Core

"As a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled, so I, born in the world, raised in the world having overcome the world, live unsoiled by the world."

--Buddha

Day 96: Picture Positive

Bold Beautiful Self

"How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold."

--William Wordsworth

Day 95: Picture Positive

Seasons

"Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance."

--Yoko Ono

Day 94: Picture Positive



More than the Eye Can See



"You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one. Each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle."

--Paulo Coelho

Day 93: Picture Positive

Engulfed

"Your flames are spreading…which are great and are like embodiments of truths. Your rays are reaching the sky."

--Rig Veda

Day 92: Picture Positive

Formed in the Cosmos

"God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection."

--Alfred Adler

Day 91: Picture Positive

Soft as Lace

"That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something."

--Meredith Monk

Day 90: Picture Positive

Mandala

"I had to abandon the idea of the superordinate position of the ego …I saw that everything, all paths I had been following, all steps I had taken, were leading back to a single point — namely, to the mid-point. It became increasingly plain to me that the mandala is the centre. It is the exponent of all paths... I knew that in finding the mandala as an expression of the self I had attained what was for me the ultimate."

--Carl Jung