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• "I learned that acceptance on someone else's terms is worse than rejection." Mary Cassatt

• "When the horse is dead, get off." Kinky Friedman

• "It's not my business what other people think of me." Sandy McGarrahan

• "Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for." Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Emerson on success:

  To laugh often and much;
  to win the respect of intelligent people
  ...and the affection of children;
  to earn the appreciation of honest critics
  ...and endure the betrayal of false friends;
  to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others;
  to leave the world a bit better,
  ...whether by a healthy child,
  ...a garden patch
  ...or a redeemed social condition;
  to know even one life has breathed easier
  ...because you have lived.
  This is to have succeeded.

• Paul in I Corinthians, 13, on love:

  If I speak in human and angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I gain nothing.

  Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, it is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

  Love never fails. If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing. For we know partially and we prophesy partially, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside childish things. At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. At present I know partially; then I shall know fully, as I am fully known. So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

• if there are any heavens
  by e.e. cummings

  if there are any heavens my mother will (all by herself) have
  one. It will not be a pansy heaven nor
  a fragile heaven of lilies-of-the-valley but
  it will be a heaven of blackred roses

  my father will be (deep like a rose
  tall like a rose)

  standing near my

  swaying over her
  (silent)

  with eyes which are really petals and see
  nothing with the face of a poet really which
  is a flower and not a face with
  hands
  which whisper
  This is my beloved my
  (suddenly in sunlight
  he will bow,
  & the whole garden will bow)

An Artist to Know

Jessie Arms Botke (1883-1971)

Born and trained in Chicago, Jessie Arms Botke moved with her husband to California and began producing large paintings of exotic birds, especially peacocks and cockatoos amid lush foliage. I became aware of her when I found at a yard sale a 42 inch by 31 inch framed canvas reproduction of her painting, "White Peacock, Cockatoos and Flowers" (1931) for only $40. It now hangs in my dining room. To see why I'm fascinated with Jessie Arms Botke, check out the following sites:

• The Scoop Gallery - Jessie Arms Botke

• Jessie Arms Botke, includes an artist profile, auction records, image gallery, books on the artist, biography, periodicals, dealers, and museums.

• All About Art's poster collection of Jessie Arms Botke's work

   

  
  

   

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This page created by C. David Claudon. Last update 7/7/03.