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Irving Penn describes through pictures. I've been trying to articulate the way I feel about him but I really can't find the words. So in the spirit of his photographs, I'll let him speak:

The photograph above the children is how I feel today...

Brancusi, you whoo me.

There are three things I can say I genuinely love, without having been influenced in anyway by anyone to cause me to love these things. They are:

1.) horses

2.) words, and

3.) Constantin Brancusi

These are the resting places.

... and I was the sky supported by his Endless Columns.

These are my favorite. Though ranging anywhere from 8- 30 feet tall, when you stand at the base of these magnificent pillars you fall under the illusion that they are, as their name reveals, endless.

Absolutely breath-taking. Absolutely masterpieces.

You see into space.

With your child's eyes

You are more than you seem

You see into space

I see in your face

The places you've been

The things you have learned

They sit with you so beautifully

Universe, no need to hide away

You know I tell the truth

We are just the same

I can feel everything you do

Hear everything you say

Even when you're miles away

Cause I am me, the universe, and you

KT Tunstall fills my life with magic. On the 16 hour drive back to Franklin from Texas, I listened to the entirety of her Eye to the Telescope album multiple times and not a one song was bad. I learned from everything she wrote. I thought, "Oh, KT! you have such buddah-nature!" Christ-nature, really, but I think it's funny when people say that like Buddah was a god or something hahahahah! Anyway, KT Tunstall is eye opening... amen.

well my heart knows me better than i know myself
so i'm gonna let it do all the talking.
(woo-hoo,woo-hoo)
i came across a place in the middle of nowhere
with a big black horse and a cherry tree.
(woo-hoo,woo-hoo)

i fell in fear, upon my back
i said don't look back, just keep on walking.
(woo-hoo,woo-hoo)
when the big black horse that looked this way,
said hey lady, will you marry me?
(woo-hoo,woo-hoo)

but i said no, no, no,no-no-no
i said no, no, you're not the one for me

If you try sometimes, you will feel great

Because I love to showcase artists and obsess over their work, this is an artist with down syndrome (BLASTED! I can't r'member hur name!) whose art is drawing blueprints for make believe houses.

<>^-^ < <3>

She has drawn thousands upon thousands of these, and you can view her art at the Scarritt Bennett Retreat Center's gift shop in Nashville where her masterpieces cover walls and ceilings. This is an essay she wrote for her collection:

"I want a big house with a lot of rooms. I want a room for Mabel, for Rick, for all my friends. I want a roommate. One day we will all live in a big house with all the people.

We will all get a new body. No pain, no hurting and we will be happy together and eat and dance in the way Jesus takes you up. We will go together.

Creed, he was my boyfriend. When he died I was very sad. I miss him. I feel he is here; I feel his prescence.

My body goes in the ground at night and then Jesus comes and I go to heaven. If you try somtimes, you will feel great."