[wolftrap]

@Moose72 - I think your poetry could be put to music. If you wanted, you could find a musical collaborator online. I have a musician friend (old and somewhat famous - played at original Woodstock) who found a poem online he loved, contacted the poet for permission to use her poem, and has composed music specifically for her poem. He's recording an album that will be released on Spotify and other steaming services. He has a number of famous people playing on his album. It can be done!

[Moose72]

Originally Posted by wolftrap

@Moose72 - I think your poetry could be put to music. If you wanted, you could find a musical collaborator online. I have a musician friend (old and somewhat famous - played at original Woodstock) who found a poem online he loved, contacted the poet for permission to use her poem, and has composed music specifically for her poem. He's recording an album that will be released on Spotify and other steaming services. He has a number of famous people playing on his album. It can be done!

I have a friend who composes and I showed him one of my new poems and he said he might compose a piece to it, "Something in C minor," he said but, not to hold my breath as to when he'd write it. So I'm not holding out high hopes.

"People who claim they hate people they really fear they need are of limited interest, i find."

David Foster Wallace

"Infinite Jest"

[Crook32]

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

[*Beth*]

Originally Posted by Crook32

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Tough to accept, but a good one.

[wolftrap]

[Art is] always based on the two poles, the onlooker and the maker, and the spark that comes from that bipolar action gives birth to something - like electricity.

- Marcel Duchamp

One of my favorite artists. He essentially did not much.

[*Beth*]

Originally Posted by wolftrap

[Art is] always based on the two poles, the onlooker and the maker, and the spark that comes from that bipolar action gives birth to something - like electricity.

- Marcel Duchamp

One of my favorite artists. He essentially did not much.

I love this quote. Beautiful!



There is no blue without yellow and without orange.
-Vincent Van Gogh

[wolftrap]

Glad you like it! Duchamp was more of a thinker than an artist per se. He did not make many works. But what he did was extraordinarily influential. He was, at the core, a profound thinker about the relationship between art and those who look at art and what that meant about the human condition. But, he didn't write anything. He expressed his thoughts via his works. The only verbal records are from interviews.

"It's not the years in your life, it's the life in your years." Albert Einstein.

This quote weighs on me because i take meds to stay calm and in touch with reality but they squash my creativity. What's the use of living a long life if it's dull? My favorite author David Foster Wallace died of depression in his forties but not after he had gifted the world many works of art. So what is the measure of success? Living a short but productive life or living a long but mundane life? We seem to value survival at all costs. But what's the use of surviving if all you do is tolerate life? Better to have a passionate short life than a long passive one.

[Moose72]

"Ella wanted to play hide-and-seek, so I told her to go find her conscience". - N3 age 9

[wolftrap]

Originally Posted by moose72

"ella wanted to play hide-and-seek, so i told her to go find her conscience". - n3 age 9

hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[wolftrap]

“I feel sorry for people that don't drink, because when they wake up in the morning, that is the best they are going to feel all day-”

― Frank Sinatra

At one point in my life this made sense...

[Moose72]

Originally Posted by wolftrap

hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's one of my favorites. I made two books with photos I took of the kids with quotes by them.

"What if you met a vampire and he only wanted two nickels for a dime?"- Noah age 8

[wolftrap]

Originally Posted by whatever2013

"It's not the years in your life, it's the life in your years." Albert Einstein.

This quote weighs on me because i take meds to stay calm and in touch with reality but they squash my creativity. What's the use of living a long life if it's dull? My favorite author David Foster Wallace died of depression in his forties but not after he had gifted the world many works of art. So what is the measure of success? Living a short but productive life or living a long but mundane life? We seem to value survival at all costs. But what's the use of surviving if all you do is tolerate life? Better to have a passionate short life than a long passive one.

@whatever2013 this is a question I've grappled with regarding my painting. In college I was euphoric/manic and it allowed my artistic ideas to come easily and often - I made connections and art that I never could have without BP. For an anxiety-oriented reason I didn't pursue art school and put myself into the orderly drudgery of banking. Every day I mourned my decision. So skip ahead to being medicated at 40 years, I'm now 54. Over that time period i've tried to paint twice, for more than two years each time. It hasn't worked - no ideas, not knowing what the heck to do, choosing mediums that didn't work for me. I was desperate to get back to where I was in college, to feel that feeling, and it wasn't happening being medicated. Last year a friend was worried and suggested that I paint again. I got a studio and gave it another try. Suddenly, everything was clicking. Ideas came and I have been able to develop them into work that feels right. I'm not euphoric like I was in college, it's not as exciting, but it's steady and productive. But if it hadn't worked this time, I would probably have seriously considered going off of my meds for exactly the reason you bring up.

[wolftrap]

Ain't no bad joke like a dad joke.

- socks my son gave to me for Father's Day. Only too true.

[*Beth*]

“Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There’s not some trick involved with it. It’s pure and it’s real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things."
-Tom Petty

[Bipolarchic14]

“It’s going to be one of those days. The voices in my head are fighting, my imaginary friend is running with scissors and at one point, one of my personalities wandered off.” - someone on Facebook.

[*Beth*]

Originally Posted by Bipolarchic14

“It’s going to be one of those days. The voices in my head are fighting, my imaginary friend is running with scissors and at one point, one of my personalities wandered off.” - someone on Facebook.

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[wolftrap]

Originally Posted by Bipolarchic14

“It’s going to be one of those days. The voices in my head are fighting, my imaginary friend is running with scissors and at one point, one of my personalities wandered off.” - someone on Facebook.

Oh my gosh, big smile on my face, thanks for posting!

[Moose72]

"If you were some floppy puddle, wouldn't you want to be put in something to look better?" - N2 age 10ish

[*Beth*]

“I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.”

-David Benioff

[wolftrap]

These are priceless!

[wolftrap]

..referring to moose' kids quotes. I forgot to reply with a quote...

[Moose72]

"Then they were friends again but every morning they had a showdown because they kept forgetting."- N3 Age 9

[Moose72]

Originally Posted by wolftrap

These are priceless!

Thanks! I'm glad I saved them/wrote them down.