Anisette Studio

As of last night, I have twenty-six slides made for a slide show of Shibui Found Image Art. Out of the blue I decided to work on it. I will need to do a photo shoot of more Shibui to continue and get them into photo shop. Also, I will create some new foundations to add to the slide show. I have several ideas for new types of Shibui, once created these can be added.

Getting the slide show done will help another Shibui Instructor Julia Baker Waite, teach her brand of Shibui foundations. “To everything There Is A Season to page 95, the chapter begins as follows. Chapter 12, “A time to keep silence, and a time to speak____.”

“Don’t tell a soul I told you this____ a secret must be kept____ and I wouldn’t tell you not to tell____ of what I said except____ that someone might tell someone else____ and what would I do then____ but say I don’t know how____ or where, or who, or when____ For secrets are not meant to say____ who told them, don’t you see___ for if you said a certain thing____ It might get back to me!” I always liked this because it fits exactly my own sentiments about keeping secrets.

Hifler: “We learn so many good things from great souls, not always what they talk about, but their silence. There is often meaningful communication of understanding and trustworthiness in silence than in conversation.”

“There would be much much less clamor if we could just stop talking soon enough. The plight of the human being is that he creates a mountain of disturbances and then tries to climb over it.”

“We seem to think nothing is working well for us unless we can see it, and to make up for what we cannot see, we talk about it until we create problems where none existed. When time is all spent talking there is no time for listening, and without new ideas talk is cheap.”

“Robert Louis Stevenson said, “You start a question and it’s like starting a stone from on top of a hill; away the stone goes, starting others.”

And so, it is with talking, the first idle remark may foster others until the words all run downhill and cease to have meaning. Getting b ack to the silence that is golden is to start back up the hill.” I am certain that this same page has turned up before. It, however, is the page that I turned to today, so I will let its message stand.

I have found in the past, many times, that by not adding to things said; I have been better off and so have others. We do not have to say something to anyone. Feeling compelled often needs restraint so to “Think before you speak.” A pearl of wisdom from the elders in my home.

If something seems serious, and someone may be harmed, we should judge the situation, however. At that time dropping pearls of wisdom without naming names may be the best recourse. But if we must say something then what you say need to be accountable towards your own barring. It will be passed on that we said something about something. My mind begins to think of scenarios now and jumps to this. I am thinking of not hiding abuse. Abusiveness is something we should never be silent about. Or someone’s partner cheating on them. We know that what we say will hurt as much as what someone may be doing to someone we care about. Keeping silent then seems wrong. Action seems right. “There is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence.” Pejj Nunes.