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Make the Ordinary Come Alive

6/11/2015

 
This week I drew what was around me.  The ordinary.  There's often beauty in the ordinary.
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“Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives.  Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness.  Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life.  Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears.  Show them how to cry when pets and people die.  Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand.  And make the ordinary come alive for them.  The extraordinary will take care of itself.”
― William Martin, The Parent's Tao Te Ching: Ancient Advice for Modern Parents
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Martha Solomon link
6/11/2015 11:26:40 pm

These are terrific! I always like your drawings of ordinary things, inside and out: a chair with a jacket draped over it the same as a bird's nest. You have an eye for it.

esolomon
10/6/2015 07:27:42 pm

I don't know why but I enjoy drawing those ordinary details. I'm you enjoy them too.


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