Four women, brides from four continents, are lounging in my basement for 2 years without a name, without a story, without a signature. Whenever I pass them by, I feel their judgmental stares. Ironic, since I have yet to paint their faces. The last portrait I finished, a mother with her two sons, sent me … Continue reading One Day
Author: Isabela
Another Stranger
I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me. Anais Nin
Ego Ride
Trying to make sense of it all will not work. You will question everything. Including your sanity. Again and again. When you will grow tired of running, you will surrender and feel the ocean inside of you moving with more gentleness.Forget everything you've been taught. You have no use for it here. Build as many … Continue reading Ego Ride
Rumi
Your task is not to seek love but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.You see the dust swirling but how can the dust rise by itself? Whoever loves beneath hurt and grief, disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises. This is love ... to … Continue reading Rumi
Butterflies
Writing to his would-be sweetheart, Fanny Brawne, the famous English poet John Keats sighed, "I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain."While I can not say the symbolism of the butterfly/caterpillar has … Continue reading Butterflies
A decade
When the municipality's arborist arrived a couple of months back to cut down the Oak tree in our front yard, I watched through the window with a wistful heart. I had known this would happen for some time, as I have always had a sense of when changes are on the horizon. This intuition extends … Continue reading A decade
Two Islands
It might take thousands of years, but when two islands meet, there is an irrevocable change in their future, the future of their fauna, and the future of the oceans surrounding them. Time, like a river, flows unceasingly but something out there, will find a way to make space for sacred moments. The mist or … Continue reading Two Islands
Scarlett
"Gone with the Wind" is not only a favorite of mine but also a brilliant, witty and timeless novel filled with thought-provoking symbols and rich in themes like slavery, human nature, and gender dynamics. I have read it and re-read it, watched the movie countless times and the artistry of it all still leaves me … Continue reading Scarlett
Collision
When we collide, the world around us dissolves. There are no distances left, no borders, no religion, history, or future. There are no rules and no other stories. No choices, no past, no mistakes, no pain.Only a beautiful disaster that makes me think it must have been you looking back at me from all the … Continue reading Collision
Sunday Colors
To be alive is to read good books, drink good coffee, wear good shoes, and feel no guilt for doing no work. It's as simple as that.
The Wondermind 