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Gordon Louis Mortensen b.1938, Point Lobos, 1986.

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Marc Chagall

"Summer"

1974

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Alphonse Mucha, 1898

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… Whoever the designer is, this magnificent bird has no problems showing off each and every feather.

Can any thing in this world be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth can come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster?

... Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)

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Jesus, give the wea­ry

Calm and sweet re­pose.

Wanderer on the Mountaintop 1818

Carl Gustav Carus   German, 1789–1869

Saint Louis Art Museum

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The American Girl magazine December, 1928

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St. George and a Dragon (1610) by Peter Paul Rubens

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"Moraine and Meadow. Sierra Nevada". 1924.

By Maynard Dixon. American. 1875-1946.

Source: @Artist Corner. Facebook.

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BONUS: This very practical prayer of St. Thomas More (on his Feast Day):

Grant me, O Lord, good digestion, and also something to digest. Grant me a healthy body, and the necessary good humor to maintain it. Grant me a simple soul that knows to treasure all that is good and that doesn't frighten easily at the sight of evil, but rather finds the means to put things back in their place. Give me a soul that knows not boredom, grumblings, sighs and laments, nor excess of stress, because of that obstructing thing called "I". Grant me, O Lord, a sense of good humor. Allow me the grace to be able to take a joke to discover in life a bit of joy, and to be able to share it with others. Amen.

Peter Paul Rubens - Portrait of Sir Thomas More

I just wanted to add this because this portrait of More is so pretty yet unknown.

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Beautiful balm for an overstimulated soul.

Boccherini - Cello concert Bb-dur, Xavier Phillips

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Sur le banc…

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Arthur Hacker, 1858–1919

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Today, may we all have moments as relaxed as the “Greek Kitty’s”; (2021) by UK painter, Timothy Adam Matthews

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Southern girls.

AI warmth will never replace real fire.

Southern Girls

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“Colour transmits and translates emotion.” ~ Wassily Kandinsky

@sweet-harmony