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An experience that very few of us ever get to have -- a sense of wonder.
Just a little art practice in digitally painting an old drawing.
Just a little art practice in digitally painting an old drawing.
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I always have a sense of wonder. I've learned you need to balance between being a child and an adult. Adults have way too much stress in their lives and could learn alot about just letting go and having real fun from children. Adults can also learn how to see the world in a different way.
Bubbles for example may be a child's toy, but it is also a scientific device. Since even the slightest breeze catches them so you can measure wind direction even when you cannot feel it.
Bubbles for example may be a child's toy, but it is also a scientific device. Since even the slightest breeze catches them so you can measure wind direction even when you cannot feel it.
And the reflective surface of those bubbles in the sunlight shows us a whole new way of looking at the world around us -- if only for a few seconds.
Wonder to me is to experience the world without filtering the experience through sets of classifying & explaining "adult" rules and explanations. Letting myself be moved for a little while by just the beauty or curiosity of the moment.
Wonder to me is to experience the world without filtering the experience through sets of classifying & explaining "adult" rules and explanations. Letting myself be moved for a little while by just the beauty or curiosity of the moment.
*nods* It's a feeling that can be resurrected, Kindar. Only it takes a conscious lowering of the "walls" we build so that we can experience being vulnerable again, like we were when we were children. Oddly enough however being vulnerable is something that "growing up" teaches us not to be.
Sadly, when we succeed at “growing up” we shut ourselves off from the very wellspring of creativity and imagination. The very thing that allows us to feel a sense of wonder over the most common of everyday things -- with the result that we become mentally old.
Sadly, when we succeed at “growing up” we shut ourselves off from the very wellspring of creativity and imagination. The very thing that allows us to feel a sense of wonder over the most common of everyday things -- with the result that we become mentally old.
might be why I feel liek I'm a few millenias old most of the time then <grins>
Yeah, the walls I built around myself growing up are prettty thick and rather well built. Most of them were constructed so I could get over my self confidence issues. unlike people who overcome low self esteem by doing brave things, I conquered mine by learning not to care.
I started chipping away at the wall a few years ago, and it's probably one of the reason I was able to fall in love with Wes.
I haven't found my sense of wonderment yet, but I have caught myself enjoying 'child-like' fun a few times, like when me and Wes will spontenausly chase each other around the kitchen.
those events are few, but they always leave me feeling really young :)
maybe that's part of the reasons my writing output has increased so much over the last year
Yeah, the walls I built around myself growing up are prettty thick and rather well built. Most of them were constructed so I could get over my self confidence issues. unlike people who overcome low self esteem by doing brave things, I conquered mine by learning not to care.
I started chipping away at the wall a few years ago, and it's probably one of the reason I was able to fall in love with Wes.
I haven't found my sense of wonderment yet, but I have caught myself enjoying 'child-like' fun a few times, like when me and Wes will spontenausly chase each other around the kitchen.
those events are few, but they always leave me feeling really young :)
maybe that's part of the reasons my writing output has increased so much over the last year
The subject of remaining young at heart is a very serious one with me which explains my tardyness in replying promptly.
Yesterday it was announced that the writer Arthur C. Clarke of 2001 fame died. One of his close associates was interviewed about what he remembered about the scientist/author. He said that one of Clarke's favorite sayings was, "I've never grown up. I've only grown more curious."
I think that's a pretty good launching pad for exeriencing a sense of wonder -- so long as one does not bring along preconceptions to the "lift-off".
Yesterday it was announced that the writer Arthur C. Clarke of 2001 fame died. One of his close associates was interviewed about what he remembered about the scientist/author. He said that one of Clarke's favorite sayings was, "I've never grown up. I've only grown more curious."
I think that's a pretty good launching pad for exeriencing a sense of wonder -- so long as one does not bring along preconceptions to the "lift-off".
An excellent example of wonder, Kaine! Those stars spilled across the winter night sky are like bright diamonds stretching off into infinity! Truly a wonderous sight.
What happened? The sketch was about six months old and really was asking to be colored. The "painting" I did in my newly aquired graphics package, Painter X.
I'll probably be doing more of these mini-portraits in the future since I enjoy doing them and it is a good learning practice for me.
What happened? The sketch was about six months old and really was asking to be colored. The "painting" I did in my newly aquired graphics package, Painter X.
I'll probably be doing more of these mini-portraits in the future since I enjoy doing them and it is a good learning practice for me.
Thanks very much, Pookey. Digitally "painting" produces a really interesting texture that I was never able to produce using PhotoShop (probably because I didn't know how). With my new graphics package I'll be exploring that a bit more in the future till I master it.
The emotions that I try to capture in my works are those that I hope the viewer recognizes in themselves, that "I know what he's feeling!" If I succeed, then maybe I also succeed in giving my viewers something pleasant to think about.
The emotions that I try to capture in my works are those that I hope the viewer recognizes in themselves, that "I know what he's feeling!" If I succeed, then maybe I also succeed in giving my viewers something pleasant to think about.
That's exactly the thought that I want the viewer to have when viewing this piece, Kumbartha. The second thought that I want my viewer to have is perhaps memories of what brought a feeling of wonder to them.
Art often is a mirror that the artist holds up for the viewers to see themselves in.
Art often is a mirror that the artist holds up for the viewers to see themselves in.
A sense of wonder does not only come from one's religion, Indagare. In a way it comes from our appreciation of the little things around us. Pausing to watch a spider spinning her web, the way the morning sunlight sparkles on a lawn, or as Kaine mentioned earlier, going out on a winter's night and looking up at the immensity of the stars spread across the sky.
A sense of wonder is I believe those things or experiences that take us out of ourselves for a little while. And when we return to ourselves we have a whole new perspective on the world and perhaps more importantly, on ourselves and our place in it.
There are a lot of good and wondrous things in the world, Indagare. Don’t let one sad and flawed small person blind you to it or you will be letting him win.
A sense of wonder is I believe those things or experiences that take us out of ourselves for a little while. And when we return to ourselves we have a whole new perspective on the world and perhaps more importantly, on ourselves and our place in it.
There are a lot of good and wondrous things in the world, Indagare. Don’t let one sad and flawed small person blind you to it or you will be letting him win.
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