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February Soul Biz – 2011
February Soul Biz –... Happy Valentines Day “The most important thing in life is to learn how to...
Bee Workshop
Bee Workshop Humans and animals are rather selective when it comes to finding a mate....
Natural History of Mark Catesby
Natural History of Mark C... by O.M. Braida Dear Friends: The following brief biography will give you some...
October Soul Biz – 2011
October Soul Biz – ... There may be more to learn from climbing the same mountain a hundred times...
January Soul Biz – 2012

January Soul Biz – 2012

Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve.  Middle age is when you’re forced to.  ~Bill Vaughn Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits. ~Author Unknown A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other. ~Author Unknown Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better...
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Damage Control

Damage Control

  Dear Friends: Now that we have gotten through the holidays and have already shipped our gifts to far and wide places, I thought I might provide you with some helpful information regarding shipping artwork and art related materials -like paper for instance.  I am sure you all have had the experience of shipments arriving with dents and dings – it might have even happened to you this Christmas.  The questions is...
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The Impulse to Capture Time

The Impulse to Capture Time

Dear Friends: The following is a commentary on the September 12, 2004 New York Times article The Undressed Art:  A Passion for Meaningful Lines by EDWARD SOREL who reports that Peter Steinhart in ”The Undressed Art: Why We Draw,” reminds us that there is something ”innate and human” about the impulse to draw what we see. Steinhart, a naturalist and former columnist for Audubon magazine, wants us to...
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December Soul Biz – 2011

December Soul Biz – 2011

Come out of the circle of time,  and into the circle of love.  Rumi ****** We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin  ****** I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round,  as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of,  in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by...
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Natural History of Mark Catesby

Natural History of Mark Catesby

by O.M. Braida Dear Friends: The following brief biography will give you some insight into the work of Mark Catesby (1682-1749) – an English naturalist.  Born in 1682, the fourth child of a lawyer, Catesby was raised in the town of Sudbury in Suffolk, England. He was not a trained artist or botanist, but was influenced strongly by the noted naturalist John Ray, a family acquaintance. As his own interest in natural...
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November Soul Biz – 2011

November Soul Biz – 2011

Bluebird by Mark Catesby [Bluebirds] make their nests in holes of trees, are harmless birds, and resemble our robin-redbreast. Mark Catesby *** A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. Chinese Proverb *** I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been...
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