tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22790674190244540732024-02-08T11:09:21.827-08:00Mary Flaig's BlogCape Sea Scapeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03168967730073175617noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2279067419024454073.post-78786383087806432122023-10-03T12:33:00.001-07:002023-10-03T12:33:50.041-07:00<p> </p><p><br /></p><p> <span style="font-size: medium;">OTHERWORLDLY HAPPENINGS</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">THIS HOUSE USED TO HAVE ALL KINDS OF GHOSTLY NOISES.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">FOOTSTEPS COMING UP THE STAIRS, DOORS OPENING AND </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">CLOSING. LOUD SOUNDS. RANDOM AS THEY WERE, IT COULD </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">BE UNNERVING.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">LOLA, OUR MAINE COON CAT, FIT RIGHT IN INTO OUR MYSTICAL</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">SURROUNDINGS. SHE WAS ALWAYS CHIRPING ANDD TRILLING.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">WE HAVE BEEN AMAZED BY HEARING, WHAT SOUNDED LIKE</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">A "HUMAN" VOICE, SAY "I'M GREAT", SEVERAL TIMES IN A ROW.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">THE NEXT NIGHT, "I'M GOOD", THEN, "GO", ALSO A FEW TIMES.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">"HELLO", WAS NEXT, TWICE. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">NOT SURE WHAT TO THINK, AS THE "VOICE" WAS SO DISTINCT</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">BUT SHE SPOKE RANDOMLY. BEFORE THIS HAPPENED, SHE HAD</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">BEEN MAKING EERIE, OTHERWORLDLY SOUNDS IN THE MIDDLE</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">OF THE NIGHT.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">IF YOU WERE OPEN TO METAPHYSICAL IDEAS, YOU MIGHT THINK</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">SHE WAS CHANNELING A SPIRIT OF SOME SORT. THIS SPECIAL </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">FELINE IS NOW IN AN URN NEARBY...SHE LIVED A LONG LIFE</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">OF 19 YEARS.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Cape Sea Scapeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03168967730073175617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2279067419024454073.post-40118634437221822812023-10-03T08:14:00.000-07:002023-10-03T08:14:20.648-07:00<p> </p><p> WAS IT YOU?</p><p><br /></p><p>WAS IT YOU WHEN THE RED LIGHT CAME ON, ON THE STOVE THAT HAD</p><p>BEEN UNPLUGGED FOR YEARS? WAS IT YOU WHO MADE THE SMOKE</p><p>DETECTORS GO OFF A NUMBER OF TIMES (NEVER BEFORE)? WAS IT YOU</p><p>WHO LEFT THE WHITE FEATHER ON THE CHAIR ON THE DECK THAT I</p><p>COULDN'T HELP BUT NOTICE, IN THE MIDDLE OF A SEAT ON A BLUE </p><p>CHAIR? WAS IT YOU WHO TURNED THE TV ON IN THE MIDDLE OF THE</p><p>NIGHT? WAS IT YOU WHO RANG ONCE ON THE LANDLINE AT 1:30 AM?</p><p>WAS IT YOU WHO BROUGHT THE ORANGE ORBS TO ME AT 3AM? THEY</p><p>WERE HUGE, LIKE ON A TV SCREEN, THEN ZIGZAGED OUT OF SIGHT,</p><p>INTO A DARKNESS THAT OVERWHELMED ME.</p><p>I WANT YOU BACK...ALL THE OCCURRENCES THAT I MENTIONED </p><p>WILL HAVE TO COMFORT ME IN THIS UNBEARABLE FEELING OF</p><p>LOSS. </p>Cape Sea Scapeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03168967730073175617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2279067419024454073.post-32910322432285495962023-08-27T13:57:00.000-07:002023-08-27T13:57:53.333-07:00<p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>POWER STRUGGLE WITHIN THE CANCER TEAM</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>WHILE PAINTING TODAY, MY THOUGHTS WENT</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>BACK TO MY HUSBAND'S CANCER BATTLE. HIS</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>RADIATION TREATMENTS WERE STOPPED ABRUPTLY, </i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>AFTER HAVING THEM FOR A LITTLE OVER 5 WEEKS,</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>TO TREAT HIS LUNG CANCER. THERE WAS NO </i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>EXPLANATION BY THE RADIALOGIST.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>BEFORE THIS, R HAD TOLD HER HE WAS SET UP TO HAVE AN</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>ABLATION TREATMENT TO FURTHER DESTROY HIS DISEASE,</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>THAT THE RADIATION TREATMENTS COULDN'T ENCOMPASS.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>THIS WAS TO BE DONE BY A PIONEER IN THE FIELD...WE</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>HAD BEEN VERY IMPRESSED BY HIS CONFIDENCE AND ANAZING </i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>BACKGROUND, FILLED WITH HONORS AND ACLAIM FOR HIS</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>WORK.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>M, THE RADIOLOGIST, WHO HAD BEEN ADVERSARIAL WITH R SINCE</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>MEETING HIM, SAID, RE. THE PROCEDURE..."WE'LL SEE ABOUT THAT".</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>SHE PUT HIM IN A SITUATION THAT LEFT HIM IN LIMBO...SHE TOLD</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>THE ABLATION GROUP THAT "HE IS CURED". SHE, THEN, UPPED</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>THE DOSAGE OF THE RADIATION AND FAILED TO TELL HER </i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>PATIENT ANYTHING, WITH NO TESTS TO BACK HER OPINION UP.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>HE, THEN, HAD TO WAIT 3 MONTHS, FOR A CAT SCAN. STAGE 2</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>WENT TO STAGE 4 DURING THAT TIME. INITALLY, THE OTHER</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>PROCEDURE SHOULD HAVE BEEN DONE A WEEK AFTER RADIATION</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>FINISHED. THERE WAS SUCH A BLATANT POWER PLAY AT WORK,</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>THAT RISKED R'S HOPES OF STOPPING THE NEVER ENDING</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>PAIN HE ENDURED, ONLY MAKING IT WORSE. </i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>I'VE NEVER KNOWN SUCH A HELPLESS FURY THAT COULD</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>CHANGE NOTHING TO HELP MY HUSBAND.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p> </p>Cape Sea Scapeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03168967730073175617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2279067419024454073.post-40265084934362534662023-08-20T12:44:00.001-07:002023-08-20T12:44:20.733-07:00<p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">WIL</span><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">LIAM MERRITT CHASE...A FASCINATING AMERICAN ARTIST</span> </p><p><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"><i>ONE OF MY FAVORITE AMERICAN ARTISTS IS WILLIAM MERRITT CHASE. HE HAS BEEN</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"><i>DESCRIBED AS A NATURAL PERFORMER AND GREAT SHOWMAN, AS GREAT A SELF</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"><i>PROMOTER, AS HE WAS AN ARTIST. HIS CHARISMATIC TRAITS ASSURED HIM A DEVOTED </i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"><i>FOLLOWING OF STUDENTS, AMONG THEM GEORGIA O'KEEFFE, CHARLES HAWTHORNE, JOSEPH </i></span><i style="color: #ea9999;">STELLA AND ROCKWELL KENT.</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"><i>HERE'S ONE OF HIS QUOTES:</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"><i>"...THE AIM OF EVERY GREAT ARTIST, AS FAR AS TECHNIQUE GOES, IS TO AS GREAT</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"><i> AN EXTENT AS POSSIBLE TO DO AWAY WITH THE INTERMISSION BETWEEN HIS</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"><i> HEAD AND HIS HAND...".</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"><i>THIS ONE IS IS INTERESTING:</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"><i>"THE PROFESSION OF THE ARTIST IS ONE OF THE MOST ANCIENT THAT WE KNOW,</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"><i>AND AS I TELL MY STUDENTS ABOUT TO ENTER IT, THE MOST DIGNIFIED".</i></span></div>Cape Sea Scapeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03168967730073175617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2279067419024454073.post-12941692517020630022023-08-18T12:05:00.000-07:002023-08-18T12:05:34.949-07:00<p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">ZEN QUOTE OF GRATITUDE</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I LIKE THIS QUOTE OF GRATITUDE BY ZEN MASTER GOTO ROSHI...</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"MAKE YOUR WHOLE LIFE UNCEASING GRATITUDE.</span></p><p><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> WHAT IS ZEN? SIMPLE, SIMPLE, SO SIMPLE.</span></p><p> <span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">INFINITE GRATITUDE TOWARD ALL THINGS PAST.</span></p><p> <span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">INFINITE SERVICE TO ALL THINGS PRESENT,</span></p><p> <span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">INFINITE RESPONSIBILITY TO ALL THINGS FUTURE."</span> </p>Cape Sea Scapeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03168967730073175617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2279067419024454073.post-42996122498652906422023-08-16T10:32:00.000-07:002023-08-16T10:32:14.590-07:00<p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">CHILDE HASSAM, AMERICAN IMPRESSIONIST</span> </p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I JUST HAVE TO LOOK AT CHILDE HASSAM'S PAINTINGS</span></p><p><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">OF THE SEA AND SEA GARDENS TO FEEL UPLIFTED. MANY</span></p><p><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">OF HIS MOST BEAUTIFUL WORKS WERE SCENES OF THE </span></p><p><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">ISLES OF SHOALS, 10 MILES OFF THE COAST OF NEW</span></p><p><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">HAMPSHIRE. HASSAM'S LUSH, RICHLY COLORED GARDENS</span></p><p><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">HAVE A MAGICAL QUALITY.</span></p><p><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">IT WAS IN THIS SETTING THAT CELIA THAXTER, A POET AND</span></p><p><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">JOURNALIST, ESTABLISHED AN INFORMAL SALON. SHE ATTRACTED</span></p><p><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">ARTISTS, WRITERS, AND MUSICIANS TO HER HOME ON </span></p><p><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">APPLEDORE ISLAND. HER GARDENS WERE CELEBRATED IN</span></p><p><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">HASSAM'S SENSUOUS WORKS, CAPTURING THEIR BRILLANT</span></p><p><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">COLORS AND WILD BEAUTY.</span></p>Cape Sea Scapeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03168967730073175617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2279067419024454073.post-79753578340304138112023-08-15T10:23:00.003-07:002023-08-15T10:26:25.046-07:00<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">THOUGHTS ABOUT LOVE...</span></p><p><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">SOME FIND "TRUE" LOVE ELUSIVE, OTHERS FIND IT RIGHT</span></p><p><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">IN FRONT OF THEM...SOME FIND IT EARLY, SOME LATE, SOME</span></p><p><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">NEVER.</span></p><p><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">FOR THOSE THAT HAVE FOUND A PROFOUND LOVE, THIS</span></p><p><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">QUOTE, BY LAO TZU, WILL RESONATE:</span></p><p><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> "TO LOVE SOMEONE DEEPLY</span></p><p><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> GIVES YOU STRENGTH,</span></p><p><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> BEING LOVED BY SOMEONE</span></p><p><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> DEEPLY, GIVES YOU COURAGE".</span></p><p><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>Cape Sea Scapeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03168967730073175617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2279067419024454073.post-92127961649468308682023-08-14T12:44:00.000-07:002023-08-14T12:44:20.217-07:00<p> ROBERT E. DRISCOLL</p><p> ARTIST</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">I HAVE SO MUCH TO THANK ROBERT DRISOLL FOR...HE WAS A </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> MENTOR AND FRIEND WHO ENCOURAGED ME TO PURSUE AN</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> ARTISTIC CAREER. HE GENEROUSLY SHARED HIS SKILLS AND</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> KNOWLEDGE AND WAS ALWAYS FUN AND INSPIRING TO BE</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> AROUND. ALTHOUGH HE WAS RECOVERING FROM SERIOUS</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> SURGERY WHEN WE MET, HIS CHARISMATIC SPIRIT ATTACTED</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> ALL AGES. HIS STUDIO/GALLERY AT THE OSTERVILLE HARBOR</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> REFLECTED HIS WHIMSICAL NATURE. WHEN I FIRST VISITED</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> THERE, HE SHOWED ME A NEWSPAPER ARTICLE WRITTEN</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> ABOUT HIM, IN WHICH HE STATED THAT HE WANTED TO BRING</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> "HAPPINESS TO THE WORLD THROUGH HIS PAINTINGS". I KNOW</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> THAT HE ACHIEVED THIS IN HIS ART, WHICH TRULY EXPRESSED</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> THE PERSON HE WAS--PLAYFUL AND HAPPY TO BE ALIVE,</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #ffd966;"> CAPTURING THE BEAUTY HE SAW IN NATURE, THROUGH HIS</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #ffd966;"> FLORAL AND MARINE WORKS...HE WAS A TRULY UNIQUE</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #ffd966;"> INDIVIDUAL.</span></span></p><p><br /></p>Cape Sea Scapeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03168967730073175617noreply@blogger.com0