MOVING BLOGS.

VIEW FROM OUR WINDOW.

Much has happened since my last post here. We have moved, but we are still in Malta. So too I have moved to a new blog. I hope you will join me there.

http://myoasisworld.blogspot.com/

                                                         Maureen.

A great start to the day

A little heady for early morning, but what glorious splendour!
I feel privileged to  be able to drink in this majestic sight most mornings now on rising.

Somehow, it gives me strength for whatever faces me,knowng that in reality I belong with this beauty, its truth shines  through all negativity and gives me hope to face the day in peace.
                                        Mo.

Passionate Pomegranates.

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The pomegranate tree outside the studio window is in bloom, the scarlet flowers cascading profuse and passionate, full of  verve,  beckoning us to join them in this glorious celebration , this colourful dance of life.
                                Mo.

                                      

Porgy and Bess 'Summertime'

Yes it's summertime, and the living has to be easy as it grows hotter here by the day.
Energy seems to flag-(mine anyway)-, and all that cleaning and dusting seems somehow to get left behind.
Well , they say 'enjoy the moment.'-----Sensible advice I feel!
              Mo.

' In summer, the song sings itself.'                       
                                 William Carlos Williams.

The Prayer.-----Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli.

A friend sent a copy of this song with Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli, a lovely way to start or end  the day I feel.
                   Mo.

That peaceful hour.

'Everything you can imagine is real'------Pablo Picasso.

I really do try to find peace in my day,---a moment to leave stress behind and move into a world of tranquility.
On an early summer day, that quiet time after lunch often provides that moment.
Bathed in a post-wine rosy glow, a misty haze  out at sea, i dream for a while.

A sense of vast space and the mind slows down,unclutters,adopts a rhythmic gentle pace , This surely is reality, this beautiful world, lying serene.----This is where I wish to stay!

                                                                                                  Mo.

                                                                              

                                        THE   OASIS- VISION---SUMMER 2011

The whole meaning of life is love, and this is the Oasis explanation of a vision that really foresees this love as the way the world will continue to be, in any substantial way.


 It offers a way of living that wishes to acknowledge this meaning in an active way, so it lets people accept a new relationship with life in a simple activity that centres on simplicity, truth, and a perfectly useful environmental understanding of nature.

 This is centred on a self sufficient development that uses a new understanding of the power that love has, to enable people to live healthily, happily and freely, using their own abilities to form a pool of resources with those who think similarly,  working in harmony with each other and life.

In time this productive approach will develop a support network that is self- sustaining  and protected, because it will allow God's power to multiply and create an energetic momentum that is extremely fortuitous.

 This is the only way for a healthy, positive, new, active society, so people understanding the truth of this will simply move in this way, as they see fit, and trust that their enlightenment will develop as is required if their attitude is absolutely sincere.
                             Maureen.

The golden hour

Back to Golden Bay to breathe freely for a while. Mist hovers over the sea today but still the holiday makers are growing and soon it will be just too busy for comfort.

We find a table at our little cafe and we feel free for a while to drink in the peace, the sense of relaxed activity and enjoyment. A beautiful setting, a carefree atmosphere, ---life as life! Thank God for Golden Bay and that golden hour.
                             Mo.

Reality or nightmare?

From St Paul's Bay by-pass.

It's growing hot here and at times the little village can seem oppressive.Narrow streets, traffic chaos and plentiful fumes.---- Not inspiring!

To add to the discomfort, a frenzy of road works is happening daily beneath our flat.----Not just fumes but dust dust and more dust. No real supervision or coordination, no constructive effort to help with the obvious health concerns,no one assuming responsibility for the mess, no end in sight.-Appalling!

How to escape for a while?----Take the high road up to the bypass and spend a refreshing hour or so away from the Hell below. Believe it or not, pollution is much less invasive here , crazy as it seems people prefer to drive through the jam-packed scene below.

Oh that welcome fresh air! I actually feel liberated! I walk along relishing my new sense of freedom, breathing deeply, and pausing to look at the view below. Serene, tranquil, white houses fronting a sapphire sea.Who could dream of the close- up  actuality?

I stay there dreaming for a while.Maybe I could bring my tent up here.Maybe I'll take time off to enjoy a higher perspective. Maybe down below is part of an ugly nightmare and I will return  to find that this insane
moment has vanished, Who knows??
                           Mo.

A different path----

View from St. Paul's village.

A different path today for our morning walk,-and a different view. Still the sea, but the sea through trees somehow gives a different perspective.

Sometimes the  unbroken vista as we look from our terrace is so vast and uninterrupted that its sense of Eternity is overwhelming, Here  I find a gentler mystery, a milder magic; , a relief that provides a  more tangible solid statement that grounds me in a mystical kind of way, awe inspiring and capturing again for me the amazing beauty of the world we live in.
                                          Mo.

'Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.'
                Rabindranath Tagore.

Into The Depth.

'Into The Depth'----acrylic on stretched canvas---16"x20"----€55

Usually my paintings arise out of my mood and feelings,
sometimes they come all in a rush as if there is a deep need to express myself there and then.

So it is with the above painting, born I think out of a sense of frustration, a desire to dig deeper into life, cut through the veil of illusion and move into a sphere of reality where there is only lightness, brightness and clarity.

Maybe a painful experience, maybe a  frightening one, but one that, in that moment of painting, beckoned me to go deeper, reach a truth that in its absolute nature revealed the ultimate fulfillment.
                       Mo.