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Don't Complain ... Thoughts and Horse Paintings by Laurie Pace

Detail of Blue Mist     © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.” ― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now Allergies are driving me crazy. Seems like I have struggled with them since January.  The symptoms seem to change slightly and occasionally I get a week without problems and wham a week in misery.  Ragweed right now but cannot figure out what is in the environment inside our house that may be triggering this.  Sometimes symptoms are of something deeper maybe

I just wanted to reach out.... Horse Paintings and thoughts by Laurie Pace

Fall Horizon Play © 2011    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.” ― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me Did you realize that your life truly has nothing to do with what you are doing right now? Your life has everything to do with what you are being. We all seem to get caught up in the "doing" of things every day. I do not believe that is why God has us here. He has in mind a sacred journey with our lives to be and to be more than one thing. We have choices to Be Happy; Be Content; Be Safe; Be Peaceful; Be Forgiving; Be Compassionat

We are not trapped in these bones... More Contemporary Paintings by Laurie Pace

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Sold  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.” ― Walter Mosley, Blue Light I want to hurry through my blog this morning so I can go walk. The temperatures are in the sixties and I want to be out there! We still have a strong wind but it feels good. Terry has  several projects he has attacked and I am hoping they get finished. This morning I started humming my fav song by the Beatles "there are places I remember.... all my life..." and my brain sings the song through

Don't Waste your Time with Fear... Horse Paintings with Laurie Pace

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Blue Herd Sold   Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Don't waste your time with fear.. Fear won't keep you safe from being hurt.” ― Tiffanie DeBartolo, God-Shaped Hole Yesterday I wrote about Liddle, the Scottish runner from the Paris Olympics years ago...After the Olympics were over he followed his Christian background and retraced his parents journey becoming a missionary in China. At that time WW II was in full force and he ended up in a concentration camp in China with a large number of children from the school and teachers. Thankfully he had sent his wife and children home to Canada just before he was imprison

What Lies Behind us or ahead of us is not important... Laurie Pace, Horse Paintings, Contemporary Fine Art

Blue Horse © 2008 Laurie Pace    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Size: 8 x 10 Sold  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.” ― Henry David Thoreau Lord, give me the strength and the wisdom to walk through this day; to go where you will lead me; to embrace it and give it my all. I fully believe we are missing some of the journey the Lord has for us because things get in the way. We have such will and power that we basically run off in several directions at one time. That too is part of our society right now...being busy. We watched a special on the Olympics about

Don't let yourself feel worthless... More Horse Paintings by Laurie Pace

Morning Run ©2013 Laurie Pace    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Sold Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself; and don't worry about losing your "personality," as you persist in calling it: at fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 p.m.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise Well I have been up for an hour and a half and not really accomplished much. I we

We Search in Reasoning and Science... Horse Paintings by Laurie Pace

© 2009 Laurie Pace    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Majesty Sold   Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "God alone is capable of making Himself known as He really is. We search in reasoning and in sciences, as in a poor copy. What we neglect to see is God's painting Himself in the depth of our soul. Always be with God. Do nothing, say nothing and think nothing which may displease Him. Do this without any other view than purely for the love of Him and because He deserves infinitely more." Brother Lawrence This 2008 painting is entitled MAJESTY because as I painted it I felt the passion and fullness of the spirit within. Beauty, power and life al

When everything seems to be going against you, God is there. Laurie Pace Paintings

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ....” ― Henry Ford Last journal entry I shared Big Eddie. While in Wine Country that trip,  we stopped for wine tasting at Rooster Hill Vineyards where my art show had been two weeks earlier. I am not a drinker, but I did like their Cabernet Sauvignon and I am not a red wine drinker at all. I am more into their Dry Riesling. We have been members of their wine club for seven years, and all my galleries get good wine for the Holidays.  With the popping up of hurr