Pre Raphaelite Wisdom (A Peace Offering)

Here it is:
" A picture is a painted poem and those who deny it have simply no poetry in their nature."
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Mayhap a word from this wonderfully imaginative artist will appease those of my loyal-royal subjects that preparing for college has separated me from! I'm off to school Saturday to move in, but my first day will prove to be very trying indeed: A 3hour drawing class, and an hour of choir! Ah, blissful day! Art and Music!

My niece now can quote a large portion of Shakespeare's 116th Sonnet! I'm so proud of her, and trust me, she is proud of herself too! She quotes it to everyone she meets!( Since I'm speaking of Will, I've aquired a book of 'pocket sonnets', just lovely )

Well....

Sorry I've been lacking in my 'blog' skills, but I've been busy! We( my family and the 'Queen of endless breads') went to our family reunion over the 4th of July, we watched fireworks in Cinncinati, Ohio. They were so beatiful, inspiring, and thrilling! Then , on the 8th, I had my college orientation and figured out my schedule for the first semester: MWF: Cultural Anthropology, Composition, Speech, US HistoryI. Tues Thurs: DrawingI and 'Cantores Celestis', also known as the 'Chick Choir'. It seems I'll be pretty busy, when I'm not in the library! I don't think I'll know what to do with myself around that many books, constantly! Oh! Everyone please pray that God would bless me with a Christian Room mate. That is a really scary thought, me being with some one I do not know, so prayers would be GREATLY appreciated!

In other news:

ADVENTURES WITH FOUR YEAR OLDS:
I've decided to teach my niece some Shakespeare, probably a sonnett. We'll see how that goes!
Tonight when I got home, there were several toads out in the road. So naturally, I did what any good Auntie would do, I dragged her outside in the dark to hunt amphibians! We caught a toad and, to my great suprise, a tree frog. It was so cute!( and sticky) She would touch the toad, but not the frog. I explained the differences to her, so now she is learn-ed in the ways of frogs. Then we let them go, sticking the frog to my bedroom window and watching it climb away. She had such a good time!Maybe I shoud teach her a sonnett about a toad, though I doubt Shakespeare often lighted upon the subject.

I know none of this is very interesting, it is just some of what has been going on!

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue-you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humor and ships at sea by night- there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book I mean.
Christopher Morley

A truly great book is a tale to the simple, a parable to the wise, and a direct revalation of reality to a man who has made it a part of his being.
John Middleton Murray

A good reader is one who has imagination, memory, a dictionary, and some artistic sense.
Vladmir Nabokov

Study for me has been the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour's reading would not dissipate.
Baron De Montesquieu

A book is the only place where you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear of it going off in your face.
Edward P. Morgan

For those of you wondering.....( as I often am)...

Many of you know that I am attending College this Fall, but you may not know what for.( You also may not ever hear from me once I get there!) Since I can remember, Art has been my major gift, or, talent. I do praise the Lord for it, and try to use it for Him. So, I will be majoring in Fine Arts, with an emphasis in Art ( there are other emphasis'), and minoring in theater( another intrest of mine, especially the costuming aspect). God blessed me with a scholarship for Art and in Choral Music, etc.( those auditions are NIGHTMARES).
Maybe I'm saying all this to say: If you are wondering what God will do and accomplish in with your life, look at the gifts He has given. It can often give some insight, and He didn't give you a passion in a certain area for nothing! He enables.
Thanks, those of you who have encouraged me and prayed for me, and do not stop anytime soon! I'll need all the prayer I can get, as I am attending a private, but not Christian, University.I truly want to be a light!( Not many people listen to artists, but they have to see them!)

In other news:
Today I was looking for a Michael Crawford CD, but my search was no success, so I bought a Sarah Brightman CD( It's kinda opera-ish). Tonight, as we were coming home from Vacation Bible School I forced my siblings to hear it at a red light. We looked over to see a truckload of true orange-blooded Tennesseans, if you know what I mean, with their windows down.Then the bright idea popped into our heads to turn the music all the way up and roll our windows down. My brother, who was driving, was frolicing/dancing/galloping/driving ( don't try this at home kids). Needless to say the Tennesseans were shocked out of their minds, but I think we got the biggest kick out of it. We laughed all the way home!( In Addition: My niece was screaming SPRITE! SPRITE! at the Taco Bell drive-thru, which made our little trip extra special)

Remember: All you need is Love!

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Leo Tolstoy