Arizona Fleabane — Image by kenne
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Art Is A Way Of Making A Life 2 comments
Painted Lady Butterfly Leave a comment
Painted Lady Butterfly — Image by kenne
All things flourish, and each returns to its source.
— Lao Tzu
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Three Little Guys Looking Up To The King Leave a comment
Three Little Guys Looking Up To The King — Image by kenne
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
— Lao Tzu
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A Tucson Sunset Leave a comment
A Tucson Sunset — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
— David Hume
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Reality Leave a comment
Snow White Icing on Hoodoos — Image by kenne
All reality
involves the active control
of our point of view,
which we choose as reality.
Thus,
if reality is what we think is actual
can we truly comprehend reality?
Is not all reality virtual?
— kenne
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Touring HTOWN Wall Art Leave a comment
Kenne D., Kenne G., and Katelyn — Image by Janie
“What is life? – A novel. Who is the author? – Anonymous. We read haltingly, laugh, weep… and sleep.”
— Nikolai Karamzin
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Dragonfly Glow Leave a comment
Dragonfly Glow — Photo-Artistry by kenne
“When one person suffers from a delusion,
it is called insanity.
When many people suffer from a delusion
it is called a Religion.”
— from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance:
An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
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Sunset Over The Tucson Mountains Leave a comment
Sunset Over The Tucson Mountains — Image by kenne
I look at a sunset
and begin to wonder
what is the relationship
between the senses
and matters of beauty,
art and taste responding
one’s feelings and emotions?
The quality of being.
— kenne
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Black Mountains Highway Leave a comment
Black Mountains Highway Into The Sunset In Northwest Arizona — Image by kenne
“And soon it is nothing but beautiful warmth and wind and speed and sun down the empty road.
Sometimes it’s a little better to travel than to arrive.”
— from Zen And The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
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Hummingbird Art 1 comment
Hummingbird Art by kenne
“Only from the heart can you touch the sky.”
— Rumi
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After All Is Exhausted, Nature Remains Leave a comment
Sunset — Image by kenne
“After you have exhausted what there is
in business, politics, conviviality, and so on –
have found that none of these finally satisfy,
or permanently wear – what remains?
Nature remains.”
— Walt Whitman
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The Will To Live 2 comments
Internalizing Existence — Abstract by kenne
I seek to satisfy the Will
Through art and philosophy
To better cope with
The problems of Being
While seeking direction
For Becoming in the will to live.
This is a driving force to
Consume moments, things
Ideas, goals, and facts only to
Possess a state of being,
Where nothing remains but
Abandonment and boredom.
This is more apparent in the
The constant appearance of death
Taking place in the reality of
The world around us that is crazy,
sad, violent reality of existing
in a state where the mind and body
Are often in a conspiracy against.
We see the world around us
Through each experience
Creating personal filters
Used to interpret what is reality
Therefore, what is real is not real
Resulting in becoming a prisoner
Of our own making.
— kenne
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Golden Columbine On Mt. Lemmon 3 comments
Golden Columbine On Mt. Lemmon, July 2022 — Image by kenne
The only wisdom we can hope to acquire
Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.
— from Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot
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Never Believe Your Own Lies 4 comments
Cactus Blossom: Kind of Holiness or Wonderfulness in Nature (April 10, 2022) — Image by kenne
“Above all, don’t lie to yourself.
The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie
comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him,
or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.
And having no respect he ceases to love.”
— Fyodor Mikhailevich Dostoevsky
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Bloomed Overnight 6 comments
Patio Cactus Blossom — Bloomed Overnight — Image by kenne
“Love. In the best of times, it is a dream. In the worst of times, a salvation.”
— from “The Four Winds” by
Becoming is Superior to Being 