The Thinkerer – Page 2 – You are at the Thought-Foundry!

Gardeners of the Soul

The Gardener – Georges Seurat (Painted between 1882 and 1883)

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust, French Novelist

The Confabulated Cook

Monk in the Kitchen – Ernst Nowak

Cooking is creating emotion.
Joël Robuchon, French Chef

‘Breathicide’

Portrait of a Boy – John Singer Sargent (Painted in 1890)

To waste one’s breath; to pump into a sieve.
Plautus, Roman Playwright

Hierarchy Towers

Acme, Zenith and Summit – The Hierarchy Towers (Freepik)

What the people are within, the buildings express without.
Louis Sullivan, American Architect

Location: Now

The Clockmobile halts at Platform Wow (Generated by DALL-E2)

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.
Eckhart Tolle, German Spiritual Teacher and Self-help Author

A Sonnet on Mothers

Woman with a Parasol – Claude Monet (Painted in 1875)

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
Robert Browning, English Poet

A World to Word

Le Ballon – Imprimeur E. Pichot (Painted in 1883)

All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.
Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Sometimes

The Desperate Man – Gustave Courbet (Painted between 1843 & 45)

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.
Steve Jobs, Co-Founder of Apple Computers Inc.

Obscure Observations

Composition 8 – Vasily Kandinsky (Painted in 1923)

Seeing is the consequence of optics; observing is the consequence of imaginative contemplation.
Ian Semple, Member of the Universal House of Justice of the Bahá’í faith

I Stood

Woman in the Garden – Claude Monet (Painted in 1866)

Gardens are not made by singing “Oh, how beautiful,” and sitting in the shade.
Rudyard Kipling, English Novelist