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"A boundary of moist air along the cold front is forecast to stall in some areas, bringing repeated rounds of rain and storms, with a slight risk of excessive rainfall over various portions, with some additional isolated instances of flash flooding possible through the night. Access routes are out."

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In a shimmering forest, the tiny sprite named Lumia discovered a lost star fallen from the sky. With her courage and a little sprinkle of magic moonlit dust, Lumia climbed the tallest tree to return it to its celestial home. The grateful star gifted Lumia a radiant glow, lighting the forest forever.

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“Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble.” ― Ed Yong: science journalist #Xerado: creative visualtor

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“If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?” ― Carl Sagan “Our capacity to #create and manipulate mental representations has many benefits." ― Randolph M. Nesse #Xerado: visualize

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“Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite. It is the emancipation of the mind. It is an exploration into unknown areas.” ― Arshile Gorky “Life is an abstract art, and it’s up to you to make sense of it.” ― Talismanist Giebra #Xerado

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“A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.” ― Ursula K. LeGuin A painting hears more ridiculous opinions in a museum or on the walls of government than anything else anywhere else. ― #Xerado:

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#Xerado: Signs Of The Urban Shaman ― watermedia on paper, 9”x12” - 23x30 cm “Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.” ― Albert Camus This Life of mine stretches in both directions

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#Xerado: Feelin' Funny The Morning After (The Secret Travails of Being An Urban Shaman) ― acrylic on canvas, 24"x36" - 61x91cm “Behind every work of art lies an uncommitted crime” ― Theodor Adorno: philosopher, musicologist, social theorist, leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory

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Memories, like scattered missives across the surface of now, but thens and past are bold foundations for new edifices of experiences, perfect for inquisitive wandering; kicking through, as feet in leaves of yesterday, reminding one of a forgotten future deftly eluding capturing once again. ― #Xerado

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“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.” ― John Steinbeck “In times of war the law falls silent. Silent enim leges inter arma” ― Marcus Tullius Cicero “The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.” ― Joseph Heller "Make Art, Not War" Mr.X

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“Art is not the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not the production of pleasing objects; and, above all, it is not pleasure; but it is a means of union among men, and indispensable for the life and progress toward well-being of individuals and of humanity.” ― Leo Tolstoy

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“The only thing that makes one an artist is making art. And that requires the precise opposite of hanging out; a deeply lonely and unglamorous task of tolerating oneself long enough to push something out.” ― David Rakoff: essayist, journalist, actor "I am my harshest critic and best ally." ― Xerado

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One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven. Eight. Nine. Ten. Eleven. Twelve. Fourteen. Fifteen. Sixteen. Seventeen. Eighteen. Nineteen... #Art. They say a picture is worth many thousands of words. Twenty. Twenty one. Twenty two. Twenty three. Twenty four. Twenty five. Twent... How many here? — #Xerado

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Creativity arises from our ability to see things from many different angles. ― Keri Smith: author, illustrator, conceptual artist Every fight is one between different #angles of vision illuminating the same truth. ― Mahatma Gandhi: lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, political ethicist #Xerado #art

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time to change course. few had the courage to face overwhelming odds despite a lack of support from ones sworn to stand fast against the aggregate chaos forecast by even experts at the very beginning of current maneuvers still underway. nerves on edge never make for restful sleep. — #Xerado #poetry

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keep hatches battened down tightly for those monsters you think without are ones that lurk within. there is no real escape, only the fragile truce negotiated at length for certain stretches and periods of time before the imminent threat of serious savagery raises its ugly head again. — #Xerado #poem

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Le temps est comme un acide ce qui érode l'inutile et révèle des trésors perdus. Time is like an acid which erodes the useless and reveals lost treasures. — #Xerado Live every day as if another poem and you may find your rhythm and rhyme within the allotted time life has afforded you. Fulfillment.

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Her 'hawk was red and gold, like a flickering flame so bold, burning ever brightly in a writhing darkness, nightly #Xerado : watercolour, gouache, ink on paper & poem I "Paint" performances, and sometime paint performances. It is the Art of Music. A unity of that seen and heard. #art #artist #poem

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Plug in. Power Up. There is so much incredible #music to experience. The problem is that much of it lives and dies in obscurity. That seems a huge travesty, one that should not go unaddressed. I film bands, "Paint" performances, saving good stuff from the dustbin of history. It seems a noble effort.

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"You may read a book a few times, you may watch a movie a dozen times, you may listen to a song a hundred times but a good work of #art will last you all the days of your life, sometimes even longer than friends or family. Quiet and steadfast, art is forever a visual refuge and #sanctuary." — Xerado

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uncharted territory in an unconstructive maze, wandering a mercurial playing field dotted with key positions, ambitions are unclear without ultimate responsibility, tending to produce agreements of power and autonomy as tangential and transitional as sand upon the beach of time. ― #Xerado poetries

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“Only through #art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.” ― Marcel Proust “To all appearances, the #artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.” ― Marcel Duchamp #Xerado acting as an aesthetic guide.

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“I hate people who collect things and classify things and give them names and then forget all about them. They call a painter an impressionist or a cubist or something and then they put him in a drawer and don’t see him as a living individual painter any more.” ― John Fowles Upon his fruited planes

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There was a time when #art was only for the rich and powerful, like kings and queens. Materials were expensive and one needed a patron, a commission. Times have changed. Colors are not made just from ground gemstones. Linen canvas and marble have become ephemeral. Art shows are open to all. ― Xerado

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There is so much incredible #music to experience. The problem is that much of it lives and dies in obscurity. That seems a huge travesty, one that should not go unaddressed. I film bands, "Paint" performances, saving good stuff from the dustbin of history. It seems a noble effort. My Berlin friends.

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“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.” ― Elie Wiesel: writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate Truth

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“You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider." ― Dr Timothy Leary

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Painted dancers greeted the bold arrival, in a tent, at a site sacred to the locals, a week every year, in an indigenous area, allowed the cultural pleasures of tribal life, despite it being in such a remote corner, where revered spiritual figures glowed on a warm and golden morning. ― #Xerado #Art

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Why do humans insist on making each other suffer? People have to sit in long traffic lines trying to get to and fro. Kids have to go to school at the crack of dawn. Just say no to feeling good. Burn some bridges. Insist on divisions. Suck in the stink. Life is strife. Kill the weak. Tiring. #Xerado

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#Art is the emergent self, peering into a different kind of mirror. Not the reflective kind that shows only surfaces but a mirror of what constitutes the inner substance of the real nature of being, and seeing. Not so much the transitional but the essence of what's long-lasting, an eternal. #Xerado

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"They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things." – Constantin Brancusi "Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction." – Paul Gauguin #Xerado is often unnatural.

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“To evoke a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed in words, so to transmit that feeling that others may experience the same feeling - this is the activity of art.” ― Leo Tolstoy Art activated. #Xerado

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"What matters is that you enjoy doing something creative. And I'm more and more seeing that as the key. That success and money or any sort of accolades are really not the experience of the journey. It's all about the process of building something." – Josh Lucas, actor Foundations of dreams. #Xerado

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“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.” ― Erich Fromm “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” ― Albert Einstein “The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.” ― Edith Södergran #Art is not for feeble minds, but for the bold. ― #Xerado

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“To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed in words, so to transmit that feeling that others may experience the same feeling - this is the activity of art.” ― Leo Tolstoy #Xerado #Art

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There is so much incredible #music to experience. The problem is that much of it lives and dies in obscurity. That seems a huge travesty, one that should not go unaddressed. I film bands, "Paint" performances, saving good stuff from the dustbin of history. It seems a noble effort. My Berlin friends.

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"My favorite people are the astute, curious souls with open minds, who relish the nuanced nature of existential explorations; those more philosophical types filled with inquisitous tendencies who wonder about the purpose, meaning and intent of life and the art thereof." — #Xerado, an artistic mystic

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"Upon the hill, ancient stone totems demarked a dreamline, seducing the favorite parts. Mundanity a rejected offal, lay upon the scrapheap of history. Not long after, a solitary figure emerged, observing the turmoil from the outside. Nonverbal clues allowed an expression beyond words." Visual poetry

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Mysticism thus serves as both a personal spiritual path and a profound influence on the broader cultural and #religious landscape, inviting believers to transcend the ordinary to touch the extraordinary. Mystical states might involve visions, #ecstasy, or a profound peace. ― #Xerado, artistic mystic

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Mystical experiences are considered beyond the capacity of language to fully describe. Mystics often resort to poetic, metaphorical, or paradoxical language to convey their experiences. Mysticism emphasizes an internal quest for truth, involving introspection, and silence. ― #Xerado, artistic mystic

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“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.” – Georgia O'Keeffe “If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.” – Edward Hopper “Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.” ― Plutarch #Xerado

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“Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.” ― George Bernard Shaw “Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.” ― Camus

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The backfill of time. a situation known to archeologists and researchers. places long inhabited, built upon and over layer on layer erecting the new atop the rubble of old building for tomorrow on the backs of buried yesterday, shards of memories fit for museums all that's left of lives once lived.

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a spark in old circuit boards once wired to provide a semblance of usefulness to a populace insisting on its own extinction with distinction phased arrays of molten surfaces where molecular changes beginning processes of which the building blocks of life are formed #Xerado #VisualPoetry #PhoneArt

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