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B&W Photography, Listening to Ideas

Listening to Ideas, Black and White Photography, Amor Milagre
Listening to Ideas, Black and White Photography, Amor Milagre

Tonight’s story is about a portrait photographer.  I’ll write it, with tea.  Our homeschool photography lessons have reconvened, flooded with location lists.  Photography is magic.  A great love, here.  We love doing family portraits, but haven’t done many.  Too busy for fun?  *Oh, come, let’s do some…  Sometimes, we make short videos into silent films, B&W.  It’s a cute, hilarious result to save and rewatch…with popcorn.  Oh, how we age and grow.  I love laugh lines…crinkle it up!

Cameras are eyes are memories are songs are feathers are tins of papers, with curled edges and splotches of inks of laughter, from that day when we sat on that rock and ate PB sandwiches…

*A gentle reminder:  After you listen to your own idea, and you want to share it, you may need to remind those around you to… “Shh…listen…I want to tell you something.”  (Sometimes, like with dreams, everyone gets too excited and wants to be in on it…the idea…but by pushing yours down into the mud, to be louder, to be heard.  Sillies…why?  Just listen.  Shh…listen.  This idea includes you.  Listen to ideas…to gold..to silver…gelatin…to you.

“Now, I’ll listen to you.  You were saying something lovely about…?”

 

Remember to remember.  Love, ~Amor Milagre

 

 

P.S.  Free idea…really great one…super possible…good-women’s-healthcare.  Let’s do it!  Yesterday…please.  All the world is in a trance.  Despite this designer’s sadness that long ago the fashion industry somehow trapped themselves on top of an old record…spinning on that loop…and the people all drag around in toxic lycra and fleece undergarments…it is imperative that the weary medical world re-awaken, perhaps for the first time.  Work to help, not to widen the gap.  We know you’re tired, but there needs to be a new wave to help you…down to the receptionists.  Every role makes a huge difference.  Make it positive.  Make it work.  Help.  Women and children need help.  Research anything.  Help.  Work.

 

Music of the Moment:  The Calm Before, Matt Elliott

 

 

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Organic Gardening: Love in Spring Flowers

Amor Milagre Spring Flowers Organic Gardening
Amor Milagre Spring Flowers Organic Gardening

My sweet Darlings, sense how easily our love has grown.  Love, ~ Amor Milagre

Amor Milagre Spring Flowers Organic Gardening
Amor Milagre Spring Flowers Organic Gardening
Amor Milagre Spring Flowers Organic Gardening
Amor Milagre Spring Flowers Organic Gardening
Amor Milagre Spring Flowers Organic Gardening
Amor Milagre Spring Flowers Organic Gardening
Amor Milagre Spring Flowers Organic Gardening
Amor Milagre Spring Flowers Organic Gardening
Amor Milagre Spring Flowers Organic Gardening
Amor Milagre Spring Flowers Organic Gardening
Amor Milagre Spring Flowers Organic Gardening
Amor Milagre Spring Flowers Organic Gardening
Amor Milagre Spring Flowers Organic Gardening
Amor Milagre Spring Flowers Organic Gardening
Amor Milagre Spring Flowers Organic Gardening
Amor Milagre Spring Flowers Organic Gardening
Amor Milagre Spring Flowers Organic Gardening
Amor Milagre Spring Flowers Organic Gardening
Amor Milagre Spring Flowers Organic Gardening
Amor Milagre Spring Flowers Organic Gardening
Amor Milagre Spring Flowers Organic Gardening
Amor Milagre Spring Flowers Organic Gardening
Amor Milagre Spring Flowers Organic Gardening
Amor Milagre Spring Flowers Organic Gardening
Amor Milagre Spring Flowers Organic Gardening
Amor Milagre Spring Flowers Organic Gardening
Amor Milagre Spring Flowers Organic Gardening
Amor Milagre Spring Flowers Organic Gardening
Amor Milagre Spring Flowers Organic Gardening
Amor Milagre Spring Flowers Organic Gardening
Amor Milagre Spring Flowers Organic Gardening
Amor Milagre Spring Flowers Organic Gardening
Amor Milagre Spring Flowers Organic Gardening
Amor Milagre Spring Flowers Organic Gardening
Amor Milagre Spring Flowers Organic Gardening
Amor Milagre Spring Flowers Organic Gardening

Nature is the magic of our world…inspiring romance, poetry, connection, and smiles.  Grow love.

SHOP my Growing Collection of Flowers- New Additions Soon

 

Music of the Moment:  My cosy adorable husband reading me to sleep… 11+ Sweets

 

 

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Breadcrumbs to Guide You, Little One

Amor Milagre Storyteller
Amor Milagre Storyteller

I do not wish to think of bones, mere dust held together by moons.  I focus on stories.  I depend upon stories to hold together my given set of bones, though they scrape and burn as they disintegrate causing a fire of endless pain.  I need stories to distract from this.  I take no medicine.  They research no comforts or cures.  I write endless stories, not only to express my other world of dreams, ideas, persistent unfolding rooms and eyebrows raised, lashes asleep, or waves unending.  They are me, I am them, and I am their translator, though no words or brushes could ever make them vivid to you.  No one reads them, no ones can sense them…do you see this?  Everyone is so very very lost.  I keep our family aware, open, and alive.  Where are all of the stories?  Can you feel them?  They are everywhere.  They speak and dance and laugh and cry…there are trees in my eyes…  There are stories.  I write them down.  My cursed bones can barely read my scribbles.  I try anyway.  We hear them, my breadcrumbs and keys for my baby, my salt sprinkles and downpours of sweetness for my husband, to follow.  I do what I can with these sandy bones.  I know that where I exist is beyond them, a plane walker.

All I ask of you is to do what you can with yours…be good to our worlds, and be grateful for what you do have, and can make….finding it all in the air you breathe.  It is all there…always…just open your senses and, absorb.  Truth is not hard to find.  Love is everywhere.  Breathe in this wisdom of stories flying, flying.  Love it back.  You are what is missing from your life.

Treat us well while we are here.  We open the windows…  Love, ~ Amor Milagre

 

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Book Illustration: A New Beginning

Amor Milagre Story Illustration Original Books and Art Self-Health Novelettes
Amor Milagre Story Illustration Original Books and Art Self-Health Novelettes

When one book of characters packs up and travels to the printer’s, patient tales then perk up and peek at their faces and trees appearing on new deckled-edge papers on my desk, here in the library at Rose Cottage.

“That’s not what I look like!  I’m a brunette…and I would never wear that!  I’m from twenty years before that style,” they remind me.

“Ah, yes…right.  Sorry.  My hair colour has changed since we bumped into each other that day.”

So bossy, but…correct.  “I’ll look it up.”  They wear me out…

Amor Milagre Story Illustration Original Books and Art Self-Health Novelettes
Amor Milagre Story Illustration Original Books and Art Self-Health Novelettes

For many years now, I’ve been constantly scribbling down stories, day and night.  There are too many to release separately, so several volumes will release as quickly as I can compile them together in the shuffling groups as they were born.  It’s only fair…

Empowering, meandering stories, belonging to my endless Self-Health Novelette book series, will begin to release in the years nearest you now.

I love writing them, then painting them up…but typing?  No!  Anything but typing…so this will take a bit.

Amor Milagre Story Illustration Original Books and Art Self-Health Novelettes
Amor Milagre Story Illustration Original Books and Art Self-Health Novelettes

Not everyone will be displayed, as many of my characters are described in soulful adjectives, allowing the listener to imagine.  I sit and paint with music, my darling husband reading to us…

If I can snag him, he’ll narrate some of my novels and children’s books in future.  At least, I want his voice for roles that he inspired.  After I release the newly illustrated Leona’s Homecoming, I’ll rerecord those four first books.  Some of these watercolours will be available as fine art prints and stationery as well.  Oh, so many joys to enjoy!

Music of the Moment:  The flipping of new-old books from library sales and borrowings.

 

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Atelier Amor Milagre: Spring Oil Paintings of White Daffodils

Atelier Amor Milagre, Shop the Art Gallery, Spring Daffodil Oil Paintings, Originals, Fine Art Prints, Stationery
Atelier Amor Milagre, Shop the Art Gallery, Spring Daffodil Oil Paintings, Originals, Fine Art Prints, Stationery

Fresh white daffodils from the garden sit prettily for me as I warm up with my first oil paintings of the season.  I will finish these sweet darlings later on this week, along with some beautiful stories of love and lush gardens.  Visit my art gallery to shop eternal blooms.  New originals, fine art prints, and stationery will  sprout up soon.  Happy gardening art lovers!  Love, ~Amor Milagre

Atelier Amor Milagre, Shop the Art Gallery, Spring Daffodil Oil Paintings, Originals, Fine Art Prints, Stationery
Atelier Amor Milagre, Shop the Art Gallery, Spring Daffodil Oil Paintings, Originals, Fine Art Prints, Stationery

A season of flowers…what could be more sculpturally interesting to behold?

Atelier Amor Milagre, Shop the Art Gallery, Spring Daffodil Oil Paintings, Originals, Fine Art Prints, Stationery
Atelier Amor Milagre, Shop the Art Gallery, Spring Daffodil Oil Paintings, Originals, Fine Art Prints, Stationery

A new background, a fine floral upholstery tapestry fabric, will be featured in various ways this year.

Amor Milagre Spring Daffodils Organic Gardening
Amor Milagre Spring Daffodils Organic Gardening

Painting the earth with plants is my favourite way to paint!

Atelier Amor Milagre, Shop the Art Gallery, Spring Daffodil Oil Paintings, Originals, Fine Art Prints, Stationery
Atelier Amor Milagre, Shop the Art Gallery, Spring Daffodil Oil Paintings, Originals, Fine Art Prints, Stationery

A clean new palette and setup for spring.

Atelier Amor Milagre, Shop the Art Gallery, Spring Daffodil Oil Paintings, Originals, Fine Art Prints, Stationery
Atelier Amor Milagre, Shop the Art Gallery, Spring Daffodil Oil Paintings, Originals, Fine Art Prints, Stationery

One of my favourite moments in a painting emerges at the very beginning…so exciting!  Delicious…like storytelling or a song….letting it unfold naturally…and then you sense what it wants to be.

Atelier Amor Milagre, Shop the Art Gallery, Spring Daffodil Oil Paintings, Originals, Fine Art Prints, Stationery
Atelier Amor Milagre, Shop the Art Gallery, Spring Daffodil Oil Paintings, Originals, Fine Art Prints, Stationery
Atelier Amor Milagre, Shop the Art Gallery, Spring Daffodil Oil Paintings, Originals, Fine Art Prints, Stationery
Atelier Amor Milagre, Shop the Art Gallery, Spring Daffodil Oil Paintings, Originals, Fine Art Prints, Stationery

Many more paintings soon…

 

Music of the Moment:  Butterfly Mornings, Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions