Happy New Year!
May Magic Be With You!
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
― Neil Gaiman
Art by Alphonse Mucha.
Merry Christmas everybody!!
Here’s a festive illustration from ‘Paisley Rabbit and the Treehouse Contest’ released in March 2018.
Art – Chris Dunn
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
– Washington Irving
Art – Evgeny Lushpin, Coming Home for Christmas (2013)
Jane Austen was born on 16th December 1775.
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope…I have loved none but you.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion
Art – The Kiss, Francesco Hayez, 1859
“Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”
– Alexandre Dumas, “The Count Of Monte Cristo”
Art – Daniel Merriam
“Come fairies, take me out of this dull world. For I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame.”
– W.B Yeats, ‘The Land Of Heart’s Desire’.
Art – Paul Gustave Doré ~ The Country of the Fairies
“There’s something about the thousands of glittering lights, the veil of nighttime that almost makes this place beautiful, especially in the reflection of the water. It makes everything askew, disoriented. There’s more truth in a ripple of water than in a clear day.”
― Ellie Lieberman, Society’s Foundlings
Art – Rob Gonsalves
Today is Romania’s National Day!
Romania is my country and the sweet hills covered in vineyards are my home place.
I have yet to find more beauty in the world as to measure the balmy vineyards in the shade of moonlit evenings.
Here, in Romania, Beauty follows you everywhere. When you think you’ve lost it, it’s there breathing magic on your neck, tugging at your sleeve with gorgeous sunsets, misty mountains, bluish lakes, Shire-like emerald hills, fortresses that once kept invaders at bay…
This is a text written in 2017 for the blog of a dear friend. https://mohamadkarbi.com/romania/
In the picture – Curtea de Arges Monastery
