It's time for me to say goodbye.

I don't like long goodbyes so I'm going to keep it simple.
My heart felt thanks to all of you whom have supported me and shown love and friendship.
I'll never forget you.

make art
make love
be happy

Hugging you warmly in my thoughts,



Diane









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"Something to engage your affections."








" We take refuge in the common place despairing of ever realizing the beautiful existence of which we have dreamed."







"It must be delightful to tumble about down there at your ease, and to feel yourself caressed on every side."







"My heart was like dust under your feet."







All passages taken from Gustave Flaubert's 'Sentimental Education' first published in 1869.







Is it in our nature to always seek the incomplete?







Many thanks for your support and friendship!










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For the love of women!

































The Birth of Venus, 1875

Alexandre Cabanel (1823–1889)









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Perceptions so fragile they sometimes call for protection......
to lock away the best...
Misconception comes and only "shakes the boards and rattles all the doors".



Double Standard, 2000


Dennis Hopper


Dennis Hopper: System of Moments
MAK, Vienna, May 30 - October 7, 2001


"You can't separate Hopper the actor from Hopper the painter or photographer. A good writer pens what he knows. Hopper knows the film world and his art is a reaction to it.
His art constantly reminds us that an ‘image' is an illusion."
- Graham Hüner

22-03-2001

















I just bought tickets to the San Francisco Ballet in the Spring which calls for a wispy dancer feature,
Merci, Chris...















Thank you for looking!
I have only a few minutes on my computer today. But, I intend on getting to all your thoughts and treasures.
Be good to each other dammit!!!











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This touched me this morning.



By, &



"A sailboat drifting among humdrum doldrums
rocks silently through nighttime fire,
as the void hunger laps tenaciously at her sides.
She sees silhouettes and seizes the shadows.

She wears them like a second-skin;
her former self,
a secret spine.

You carved beauty into my eyes and
branded me a damn fool, but not since
then have you stopped staring at the diamonds
placed just out of reach.

Now, I am dark,
and buried deep,
anticipating
proper pressure.
Only pure hypocrisy can ever
show me how not to be someone I
never really was, and truly be someone
I hate (to regret).

And now that the eastern horizon
is the only place I can go,
[and now that dusk is the only time I realize
just how much I pale in comparison
to the lucid black sea]
it’s time for us to leave.

You'll be down
below the carved earth
left by falling
dusk.

I'll be waiting
on the echoes
of the evening."













I thank all of you for the and generous comments every word and gesture means so much to me!
I'll be away from my computer for a week.
I'll miss you guys and I look forward to your treasures when I return.







be happy and be good to each other













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