miscellaneous postings by Lawrence R. Spencer
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Sheep Nation a series of photographic works by New York-based contemporary artist Davide Luciano, whom explores this fertile ground through a characteristically satirical yet compassionate lens. http://www.davideluciano.com/sheepnation
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“I am very sure that my new book, Vermeer: Portraits of A Lifetime, will be considered by many people to be delusional or heretical. Many will dismiss my observations and comments because they don’t follow the dictates of “authoritative research” or the opinions of art “experts”.
This book may threaten persons who have a financial vested interest in the Vermeer paintings that still exist today, as their livelihood or financial well-being depend to some degree on the value currently assigned to the paintings.
Although the monetary value of Vermeer’s paintings have been vastly inflated, in part, due to the mystique created by authorities or speculators, it is not my intention to devaluate them. It is not my intention to invalidate property that was sold or bartered by Vermeer and his wife, Catharina, hundreds of years ago. Quite the contrary.
My intention is to honor the lives of Johannes, Catharina, their eleven surviving children and Maria Thins, his mother-in-law and patroness.
This book does not represent or endorse any financial, spiritual, religious, political organization or practice or philosophy of any kind. All personal observations and opinions offered by the author herein are purely and solely personal opinions, with no other source than those noted in the footnotes or appendix.
Any and all individuals or organizations from whom research and/or opinions have been borrowed or sited for referential purposes in this book are not affiliated with and do not in any way acknowledge the validity of or endorse the findings or assertions of the author or publisher of this book.
Finally, this book is not intended for people who have a vested interest, or who “know best”. Personal observations, whether visual, empathetic or conjectural, of the author about the life and death of Vermeer, 300 years after the fact, are wholly subjective.”
Vermeer: Portraits of A Lifetime https://itunes.apple.com/us/audiobook/vermeer-portraits-lifetime/id569744974
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Listen to Chapter 8 from my new book, “Loud Zoo – The Tao Terra”
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A wish is a hope or desire for a thing or person to appear, for an immaterial thing to become real, for a condition to change, or any of an unlimited number of desires for change. Traditionally, a wish is request from a supernatural being to cause something to be changed or created. A template for fictional wishes could be The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, specifically the tale of Aladdin, although in the tale of Aladdin the actual wishes were only part of the tale. Classically the wish provider is often a spirit, Genie or similar entity, bound or constrained within an object, like Aladdin’s oil lamp for example.
In the case of the Magic Lamp, there are several steps to getting your wish fulfilled:
What are the odds that all of these circumstances will ever exist? You do the math….
However, there are other forms of “wishing” or asking for something from a supernatural being. The most common kind of “wishing” is prayer. Another kind of wishing is daydreaming, or imagination or meditation. Another kind of wishing is figuring out how to make something happen and working hard, and persisting long enough to MAKE it happen!
This is almost always the most reliable way of making a wish come true. And, YOU are a Supernatural Being that can make YOUR wishes come true.
— Lawrence R. Spencer. 2013.
