Soliloquy

Ah, it's a reflective weekend here, as well. It's been raining several days, the grass is growing as I watch it, I'm pigging out on DVD movies (even discovered some I forgot buying & had never watched!), I'm writing & reading and discovering long-lost people on Facebook. Pretty reflective stuff, huh? Thanks for the visit. It's a pleasure whenever you visit and leave your thoughtful comments, Billy!

Thank you alekhouse! I'm so happy that you like my work. And I'm excited about reading more of yours! One of my hub buddies has requested recommendations from others of us for hubs and sites we particularly admire, so I am sure I'll be recommending yours!

Thank you so much! I am so pleased you visited my site and like my work! My recommendation of yours has resonated some big admiration for you among my hub friends, by the way!

Aw shucks, Maita - you make me feel so good! Thank you, m'dear!

Dolores - What a lovely compliment! Thank you! Thank you for coming and reading!! You are a dear!

Thanks again for a lovely visit and comments, K9~!

MFB III - I'm delighted you like it. Well not only would it be nice - it is nice to let the sunshine in! Glad youo noticed!! Thanks!

Adam - how pleased I am that you visited and read my poetry and like my paintings. You know - I see that face now too! It wasn't deliberate though! wow! Thank you so much!

My goodness! - Thank you so much, Maita! Uunlike my prose, my poetry tends to be brief and simple, with its only purpose to express a feeling or capture an impression. I always laugh and say that's how I can distinquish which of my stuff is prose and which, poetry! LOL ;)

I just read a poem on YOUR hub. Thank you for the compliment on mine, and for following me! Welcome aboard.

Joy56 - I've just been to your page and read the first installments of your poetic story. Very intriguing!! Thanks for coming here and reading this hub. Thank you very much for the compliments!

thevoice - how nice of you to drop by and as always, give me the most amazing words of encouragement! Thank you!

Thank you, AP! I'm not sure pretty's approval, though. ;)

SilverGenes - yes - the two are quite different in a balanced kind of way! I am very fond of Soliloquy the watercolor, too. It was a wonderful flight of fancy! So glad for your re-visit!

Thank you, Nikki!! :)

Shalini - perhaps that is why Shangri-la was so much more ethereal than the rest of the planet. Few everyday people really do practice moderation (except in great moderation!), just as few of us can really practice detachment except as we are quite detached from IT. LOL. Thanks for more to think about!

Thanks, Tony! I like "Muse" for it; - but no, - it's "Plume". I guess my muse would be a bit more sedate, although I guess I'm a creature of contradictions, - most of which I'm managed to bring under some sort of rein over a lengthy lifetime. Otherwise it might not have been so lengthy! LOL.

By the way - you guys have this American/Texan using that silent, unnecessay "u" in words like watercolour. If I do that around here, they'll think I'm trying to show off or "put on the dog", not to mention that spell-check always underlines it in bright red!

Yes - the watercolours are mine. Thank you. I'm pleased you like! haha 'Infidel abstract inner being', is it? That's so cute! What I love about watercolours is their ability to "go with the flow". They can also be clear and concise, though.

Well -to have merited YOUR approval, knowing how discerning you are about poetry, De Greek - well - I'm overwhelmed and astonished! Thank you!!

Feline Prophet - I understand. Even when it comes to some of my most revered poets, I'm not much of a poetry reader/fan, either. Perhaps it's so personal that it feels either like "peeking" if it's any good and if it's not - well - one hopes it helped the poet but why bother to read it if it doesn't communicate anything? My own has served a very subjective purpose, almost life-sustaining at one time, certainly never actually intended to be publicized. In fact it was to allow me my thoughts without being discovered. So the quantities I've written have mostly never been seen by anyone else but myself, even some of the better ones. My poems are mercifully short - but there ARE a lot of them! haha!

But I am glad it brought you to something you enjoyed. I am always pleased for your visits and aware of the awesome mind which is meeting with whatever I've set forth when you visit.

Ken, your comments are poetry themselves! Thank you so much for the kind response to the feeling I expressed, which was and is mostly joyous!

Ah, Silver Genes! I envy you having read the book, "Lost Horizon". I never have but should see if it's available! It's such a good story. I have an affinity for seeming opposites which really aren't, but are different facets of the same thing, don't you? - You obviuously do since you noticed them there. Thank you so much for the lovely compliments too!

Aw, Diana - you're too kind. Naw, I don't think I got any major share of talent. Maybe since my eyesight has never been too good, I was compensated. I always thought maybe having no physical depth perception may provide me with a nice flat picture which is easy to paint. And since I never got to get a word in edgewise in a family with 3 grown siblings and two very expressive parents, I had to find some way to express my thoughts - so - writing was it. Thanks for those very nice compliments!

Thank you, Michelle! I'm pleased that you think they're worthwhile and meaningful. They hadn't been posted here very long, though they've been "around" a good while. Actually the poetry is some of my more recent. My intense poetry time was MANY years ago. I wrote these last summer, though. As you see, the watercolors aren't too recent. I have an easel set up in my bedroom with all my supplies there. I need to do some! I've neglected my pianos too.

I guess I'm the classic jill-of-all-trades, mistress of none! LOL

Violet Sun - Thank you. Your words amaze me. These are things which are so "me" to me and contain much feeling. They are the kind of things one does at times when the meanings are captured crystal-clear in them forever - both words and brush-strokes, but seem so subjective that it's surprising when others feel them, too. I'm glad they touched you!

Margit - Thank you!! I'm pleased you like it!

drbj - Thank you, sweet friend.

Yes - it was Ronald Coleman in "Lost Horizon" and Jane Wyatt was the girl. Sam Jaffee played the high lama, who was hundreds of years old. What a movie. Recently I found a box of VCR tapes I'd made from TV years ago and it was one of them. I still enjoyed it. My mother was so thrilled when it seemed they'd come out with a remake but it turned out to be a musical and didn't capture the essence of the story at all. To refresh your mind about the story-> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Horizon_(1937_fi...

Ah - so! I see I was 5 when it came out.

Then about the same time or in the next year or so we got "The Wizard of Oz" and "Gone With The Wind". I saw them all on first runs at the little movie theater in Del Rio. Those were years producing some real classics!

Shalini - Thank you so much!

Shangri-la has haunted me since I saw the movie "Lost Horizon" as a young child with my mother. It was her favorite all-time movie. The premise of moderation stuck with me, though it was contrary to my nature! I overdo everything! LOL :)

Thank you Melinda! Glad you like it.