Uplifting & Supporting Tanya from Montreal – Artist Extraordinaire 

 

Today’s Forgiving Fridays: Loving My Inner 12-Year Old

Tanya from Montreal

My Artist buddy who displays her artwork at 14th street Union Square Subway station.

Tanya is seeking to rent a room in an area safe for young Ladies. If you have a reasonable price room close to Manhattan please email me at deborah.palmer280@gmail.com and I will contact Tanya. Thanks.

Working as a museum security guard I don’t have much to give but I always make sure that Tanya has a few dollars.  Tanya has a spirit of Gratitude and Thankfulness. We now share emails about once a week.

Though I was never able to have children of my own I find that God often sends me young women of all races and faiths who need encouragement. Those of us who have passed that half century mark have the benefit of maturity, perspective and experience. Young Ladies don’t always have that and need guidance from older women. I do my best to help. Sometimes young women just need a listening ear. They have pressures and stresses unique to this Digital Age.

As an Elder of the Global Community I’m here to uplift young women. I let them know that they can confide in me about anything. No shame. No guilt. No judgement. Sometimes young women fault themselves and feel like they are stupid I let them no that they are not stupid you just did not know. You did not have the information and now you do. It takes time to get to the level of courage, strength and self confidence and everyone arrives at a different time.

Let us strive to create and be a Blessing in Young Women’s Lives.

 

Isaiah 54:1

New International Version (NIV)

The Future Glory of Zion

54 “Sing, barren woman,
    you who never bore a child;
burst into song, shout for joy,
    you who were never in labor;
because more are the children of the desolate woman
    than of her who has a husband,”
says the Lord.

 

 

New York the City of Dreams. May All of Tanya Dreams come true. 

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RDP Saturday: PINK

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TRAVEL WITH INTENT

A photographer’s view of the world – words and images to inspire your travels and your dreams

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Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge: May 14, 2017

https://ceenphotography.com/2017/05/14/cees-odd-ball-photo-challenge-may-14-2017/

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Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge: May 14, 2017

Cee’s Odd Ball Challenge (COB) is all about those great photos that you take which really don’t seem to fit into a common category.  We’ve all taken them and like them, because we just can’t hit delete and get rid of them.

There is never a theme to this challenge, so what is an odd ball is all up for you to discover and photograph.

Oddball Art

 

 

 

 

 

Georgia O’Keefe at the Brooklyn Museum

 

Georgia O’Keefe at the Brooklyn Museum

Finally got back over to the Georgia O’Keefe special exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum today. Still crowded but not as bad as last Sunday. Stephen and I went to see the exhibit on Sunday and you could barely get through for the number of visitors. Sunday the exhibit was literally jammed packed with people!!

I’ve always admired the work of Georgia O’Keefe and would study her paintings in depth and detail whenever I was posted in the modern art section of the Main building. I never lost my fascination for her artworks, her simplicity and style as a working woman artist.

 For me she over shadows any of the shallow and superficial females held up by the media and society as being ideal. Ms. O’Keefe used her brain, talents and gifts to cement her place in history/HerStory and she should be considered a role model for young women not the sexpot actresses, singers & entertainers currently paraded before our TV and Movie screens.

 This time I was able to take some photos. As you can see Ms. O’Keefe posed for many photos. I like the fact that she kept her own last name instead of taking her husband’s last name, she was plain spoken, had simple utilitarian clothing that allowed her to paint, she was not caught up in fashion, and she aged. Naturally. Without shame or pretense.

No botox. No plastic surgery. For me she became even more beautiful as she aged. Stately and Majestic!! Georgian O’Keefe was married for 22 years and moved to the Southwest after his death. Ms. O’Keefe and her husband did not have children. She lived to be 99 years old. The sad thing is that towards the end of her life she went blind and could no longer create art.

If you want to see great artistic work of value and substance I highly recommend this show.  Some of my photos did not come out too great so I’ve included these links so you can get better images.

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/georgia_okeeffe_living_modern

 

 In this photo Ms. O’Keefe looks like a Vermeer painting.

 

 


Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Things that Look Like Faces

 

https://ceenphotography.com/2017/02/14/cees-fun-foto-challenge-things-that-look-like-faces/

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Things that Look Like Faces

Cees Fun Foto Challenge
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge

I work as a museum security guard so I get to see many art exhibits that appear to be anthropomorphic shapes. One of the great aspects of abstract art is that the human mind can interpret it in so many different ways.