Mrs. Happy Housewife inspired me. 🙂 She’s kind of like my neighbor blogger even though she lives hundreds of miles away! She’s like me and has a love for art expression through poetry, painting, music, writing, etc. There is a bunch of junk on Youtube that I hate but it also has some good videos that are helping me learn about art.
R.C. Sproul, a greatly respected theologian of today has a favorite painting of Rembrandt. I have also claimed it as a favorite too. It is called Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem. I found it on a website called Artchives. You can view the chronological order of his paintings from 1630 to 1669 from this site.
Here is some background info about Rembrandt van Rijn. He lived from 1606-69. He was the fourth of six children. His father was a miller and his mother was a baker. He painted at least 300 painitings in his lifetime. Here’s some more info about him.
This is a Youtube video you’ll enjoy. Rembrandt stayed busy in his life. This video contains just his self-portraits. Hmmm, makes me wonder if he was vain. I don’t know. But I’m glad that he painted himself alot so I can get a better grasp of his appearance.
Author Archives: Linda
Looking For Answers
I look for God to show me things through the Bible. This morning I did a quiet time. There were various avenues I went down for Godly wisdom. Here’s where I looked:
2 Samuel 20 & 21
Hosea 1 & 2
the verse “For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.” (Matthew 16:25)
Streams In the Desert devotion
All My Lovin’ By Paul McCartney
This is my favorite Beatle’s song. Check this out. Paul McCartney voice is still strong after so long. The crowd goes wild in both videos. It’s just there’s a wider age range in the first.
In 2002:
38 years earlier! Amazing!
Tulsa’s Buried Car: The Miss Belvedere That Should Have Been
Just imagine that this was the Belvedere that they had pulled out of the vault. (There are pictures of the interior.) This is a ’57 Plymouth Savoy.
Starry Starry Night
I would like to dedicate this entry to Mrs. Happy Housewife. I love it when she takes a famous poem and couples it with a masterpiece.
In college one of my most memorable classes was humanities. The teacher was good and I learned world history that I hadn’t been exposed to yet.
In that class, my teacher Mrs. Lurz, took an old hit song from the ’70’s and told how it was about a famous artist, Vincent Van Gogh. The song is Starry, Starry Night by Don Mclean. The beauty and expression of two incredibly talented people combined so we could enjoy.
What a way to memorize the Masterpieces of Van Gogh; Listening to a peaceful song beautifully sang as a guitar is strummed.
Through YouTube, Don Mclean’s song, and through the artist’s own hand the world will listen now, much more than ever, to what Van Gogh tried to say through his paintings.
Taking Back my Household
For this past year, I’ve been working 6 days a week. My thoughts were focused on working a 40 hour job and working at two other one-day jobs. The focus of my life was torn. Mostly focused on getting money and then what was left over went to my family.
What Are the Odds?
Lately, one of my favorite devotional books is Streams In The Desert by Mrs. Charles Cowman. I like her set up. Each devotion Has a Bible verse, an interesting subject, good Christian examples of the point she is trying to make and then a poem that is focused on her lesson.
I read Streams in the Dessert at the Back to The Bible website. And I read a daily Bible reading from Heartlight’s website.
Phil Collins
Eeeeasscchhhhhh! This is a little embarrassing but you can date me as growing up in the “80’s quite easily if you watch these Phil Collins videos. But I do like his incredible talent via the drums and his voice. I used to “cruise” the tiny, mostly-empty town of Collinsville, OK when I was young and I had a Phil Collins tape I’d listen to. I would have worn it out if someone hadn’t stolen it out of my car!
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