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posted by
RomaKay
on March 13, 2010 at 1:59 PM
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Re: Mind Painter
No time like the present Bob, but you hold it in your mind.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 13, 2010 at 9:00 AM
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Mind Painter
When Ginny and I first were married, she looked through my old stuff. Among it were some charcoal newsprint sketches from a class I took on Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village. The idea was Work Fast! , so the model changed poses every 60 seconds. So there were a lot of sketches. So I had some explaining to do. So I offered to do a few of her (she would have been good too, and I always regret I didn't do it before she got MS, but we never got around to it, and that's the way things are). Still, it was good.
So here we are,
posted by
2902
on March 12, 2010 at 7:34 PM
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I plead innocence Sam. I don't know much about motherhood symbols. Hera must have been a well built lady.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 12, 2010 at 10:11 AM
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I think we are 'skirting' the real truth here! Not buying the lily as a lily per se, lol!
Greek lore associates lily meaning with birth and it is asymbol for motherhood because the flower was said to be created from the breast milk of Hera.
As the story goes, Zeus wanted Hercules (his son born from an extra-marital affair) to become a god. One way of doing this was to have him suckle at the breast of his wife, Hera. Zeus invoked the god of sleep, Somnus, to put Hera in a deep slumber while he enticed Hercules to suck at her bosom. He did this so vigorously that the milk overflowed. That which flowed heaven-wards became the Milky Way, and the milk that flowed to the earth turned into a white lily.
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here, the doorway to symbolism sam
posted by
sam444
on March 12, 2010 at 9:38 AM
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CORNCAKE
It’s almost reality but put forth in your fantastic style. BC–A, Bill’s Roost
posted by
BC-A
on March 11, 2010 at 8:58 PM
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Corncrake - Well, what can I say. You have painted the picture well here too. Excellent writing.
posted by
shobana
on March 11, 2010 at 2:59 PM
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