Proverbs...

Well! This blog is called Proverbs & Jellybeans and so I thought it ought to have some proverbs.

The depth of modern knowledge did not come about by every man inventing a wheel.

Strongest is love learned.

The future is a mystery. Is it an ominous, looming shadow, or a great secret waiting to be told? It is as we make it.

I don't particularly like the detached, unrelated nature of this collection of proverbs, but considering the fact that I only have three, I can't exactly complain. Perhaps I shall find others...

Tail...

So many questions for heaven... today's question is: why did You make me without a tail?

Late...

Staying up late is only half the time intentional for me. The other half of the time, I'm doing something that I am completely focused on and totally lose track of time. Art is something that will do this to me. I think it has to do with what side of my brain I am primarily using. I read about it one time. The left side of the brain is thought to be the logical and calculating side, while the right side is the expressive and artistic side. So when an artist gets "in the zone," he or she literally goes into that side of their mind and that's where the majority of the brain activity is. But guess what side of the brain keeps track of time... yes, the left side. So when I switch to right-brain mode, I have no consciousness of the passage of time. Wonderful the details and quirks of God's creation, aren't they? Now I shall utilize another of His wonderful gifts: sleep. Goodnight!

Comments...

I just realized that I had "comments" turned off on this blog... =P rather: I just realized that I have 97 views on the blog so someone must actually be reading it, therefore I checked to make sure you could comment if you wish and realized that you could not. So! I've now enabled it and now you can tell me what a horrid writer I am! x) I think I'll try and post some art and music here if I can figure out how and then you can tell me what a horrid musician and artist I am too! =D
(For those of you who would give me a lecture of apparently insulting my work, I'm not actually insulting my work, only saying that I expect insults to my work because I set the comment settings to "anyone" so any random idiot can post their rude comments here... =P I may turn it off if I really do get any rude comments... I just don't know who is reading the blog so I didn't want the setting to say "only people with blogger accounts" or whatever just in case they don't have a blogger account and wanted to say something...)
My, my, I am so wordy today. This is probably because I am happy. Why am I happy? Because life is good! Life is hard, but life is good. God has blessed me with so many things and such wonderful friends...

Weekend...

Had a very good weekend! Visited old friends at a new school, tasted the best carrots I had ever had; learned a few things about myself including the following: I like chopping vegetables and want learn to cook, I actually like the strange Fountainview Academy custom of eating toast with butter, brewer's yeast, and cayenne pepper on it, and I like playing the harp; and finally, another step in reconciliation with an old and dear friend has been taken. Such a great weekend! =) Now it's time to get back into the daily grind, not that I mind. I love my school and my friends here... but there is always that part of my mind that wonders what would have happened if... ?



The Road Not Taken (by Robert Frost)
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth; 

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Writing...

I don't know what it is about this evening, but this evening, I feel like writing.  The only difficulty is that I actually have nothing to write about.  This time of the evening is when I am most alert and awake and all my creative juices are flowing.  Perhaps I ought to paint something.  I'm trying to learn to paint (as previously mentioned).  However, one simple fact remains: I'm a horrid painter.  So painting, while a good exercise for my "creative juices," is actually a very frustrating and discouraging process for me.  I did, however, find a painting tutorial that I will try to complete before bed tonight.  I shall post the result tonight (as well as the other paintings I was going to because our internet connection seems to be doing a little better this evening).

... I wonder if there's a way to see how many people view my blog...

Art...

So I've been reading these artists' blogs and they inspired me to start posting my art... They also inspired me to start painting/sketching regularly so that one day I will be as good as them........ maybe... x) I discovered that many of the blogs I enjoyed most were the blogs of artists who work at DreamWorks and Pixar.... =D I think my favorite one belongs to Goro Fujita.
Anyhow, here are the only three paintings I've made that I actually like... there are only a couple more, but they're junk... x) not that these aren't junk... =P I use a Wacom Bamboo Tablet (basically a "pen-and-paper" for the computer) and work in Photoshop Elements........ Though I have Alias Sketchbook Pro so I probably ought to be using it.... x) oh well... later... =)
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oh bother... my internet connection is being stupid... I'll upload the pictures from school tomorrow... =)