I don’t profess to know everything. As much as I want to know the reason why some things happen, there are times I am resigned to just accepting and enjoying them. Here’s one of the few of them - finding a gem in the blogs:
Today is her birthday. She is a terrific human being, extremely gentle and kind, intelligent and talented, gracious, compassionate and unselfish. (True)
She is tall and beautiful has very long legs which served her well as a dancer. She is a beloved and loving wife, proud mother of a beautiful smart daughter and handsome brave son. Her husband is brainy and brawny but loses bets intentionally to help friends and neighbors. (True)
One day when she was a teenager, she was late for dance practice, so she hopped on an elephant and rode it to the dance hall. (Tall Tale)
But she was really a dancer and now a poet. (True)
Deborah, the Pachyderm Loving Dancer Speeding to Dance School (Ces's Interpretation)
My Dearest SisterFriend (True)
I love you.(Very true)
This is for you. (True)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Dearest Deborah!!!
Tsup! Yowza!!!
What a lovely tribute, tall tale, and drawing. Lucky Ces and lucky Deborah!
ReplyDeleteOh, Ces! Deb is going to turn cartwheels and do the splits when she sees this (and she can do it!). What a lovely birthday gift to a very special person. :) xo Pam
ReplyDeleteShe would have ridden an elephant to dance practise had one been available, I think!!!
ReplyDeleteLovely, lovely....just like Deb!
Have a good day Ces♥!
XXOO!!
Anne
Wonderful!! I love elephants
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Deb. She is going to squeal Ces when she sees this. She must be sleeping in for her birthday.
ReplyDeleteDeborah is a lucky beautiful woman and such a great sister friend!
I will forever love Deborah. I am grateful to her. One night I was frantic and she was the first person I thought to call knowing she would understand and she did not disappoint. She loves me without conditions, never once asked me I needed to do one thing or another. Her love has no strings attached. She is a friend of virtue.
ReplyDeleteWonderful! And all so very true about sweet Deborah!! She is going to love this, LOVE IT!! You are wonderful! Love, Silke
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ReplyDeleteOMGoshOMGoshOMGoshOMGosh CES!!!!!!
**squeals** **swoons** **chokes a little bit on own saliva**
Oh Ces.
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This is so FANTASTIC!! The drawing and the words. Blessed was the day I was led to your blog by Angels. You are The Best Ever and Ever. I have no words to express the feeling that your art gives me, let alone something done FOR me! This is Cesaslicious!!! The height of your Royal Cesessness!
I am obCessed with Ces! Oh LoVe lOvE LoVe!!! **blows a million kisses, and a parade, a rainbow, a unicorn, and a baby bunny** Deb
I had to look again!!! Still LoVe! MUCH. BIG LOVE. Gigantic love.
ReplyDeleteMy Dearest SisterFriend (True)
I love you.(Very true)
**sigh** Deb
What a beautiful tribute to a wonderful friend. You are quite the poet as well as an artist Ces, lucky, lucky friends! Gorgeous drawing!
ReplyDeleteAnd still the snow falls. My baby sister wants me and my husband and child to ski to her house in West Orange, NJ. Now you've got to picture this Ces. A black family on going up a mountain on Ski???? Oh Just picture little chunky me on a pair. HILARIOUS is not even the word!!! I have been sitting here at this computer all day and now my butt hurts like nobodies business! Hope that you are warm and dry where ever you are!
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AAAHHHHH!!!! I had to laugh with delight at Deborah's response. This is fantastic! Look at the elephants in the background about to cuddle. And my, oh my, what beautiful, long legs! Happy birthday, Deborah! Ces speaks many truths. You are truly lovely and generous and sweet and beautiful!
ReplyDeleteHaving met Deborah in real life .... I can honestly say that she has those long legs that you've depicted in your work!!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday, sisterfriend!!
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ReplyDeleteI love elephants too and your much loved friend Deb will be having a happier birthday all because of you.
be well
Ribbon
Your drawings are amazing....!!! My daughter's bday 26th too!
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Wow!! I think Deborah likes it, Ces!! Lovely tribute!
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by Ces, we're doing fine, not much snow after all, it's been such a bust this winter - it's all staying in NJ, PA, and DC as you've heard! Where are you on the Gulf - Texas? It's so true nurses don't get excused from the weather, I've often wondered how many docs and nurses had to stay overnight in a hospital! Hope you're doing well and have a wonderful weekend!
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ReplyDeleteThank you very much for stopping by to greet my dearest sisterfriend Deborah a very happy birthday.
ReplyDeleteSusan, most if not all hospitals have an inclement weather policy and disaster preparedness and coverage. Nurses, doctors, police officers, and other professionals who are considered primary and essential personnel cannot be excused from not coming to work because of the weather. Oftentimes arrangements have been made in advanced and way before inclement weather arrives. Here for example, preparations are made before hurricane landfall so personnel make arrangement for their families' and pets' care then report to work days before landfall. Once inclement weather policy is in place there is lockdown and no one can leave. The longest I have stayed at work for weather related reasons was 36 hours. I don't know if you have heard of this but our hospital was flooded during a tropical storm not even hurricane, the facility had to close and we transferred hundreds of patients when power failed throughout the building and water submerged the ground floor. The hospital was closed for two months. All employees have to sign up for disaster planning coverage. I am no longer an essential personnel because I am not in the clinical area. Our department has a ride-out team, a disaster recovery team, an off-site coverage team and a replacement team. Some of us actually travel to upstate or farther west to support our facilities during inclement weather.
HEy Ces, This is sooooo beautiful. You must have been blown away at this beautiful work. Hey when you get a chance come pick up your grass skirt and coconut bra! Snows coming!
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Good morning, lovely! I had the most fun just now reading through all the comments and Deb's comment made me laugh out loud! She's such an amazing woman!! Hope you are staying warm and dry and not working so hard! Play some, paint some, cuddle the Viking! Love, Silke
ReplyDeleteGood morning, Hula Doll! Did you find what you were looking for this morning?
ReplyDeleteAH! I hope badge and board are off playing TOGETHER!
ReplyDeleteHello, dearest Ces! Thank you so much for your visit earlier... I am just not making it to my fave blogs so often with Daniel's brother visiting... But, I am getting to cook a lot and make dishes Daniel's mom used to make for them. She died when they were both young (Daniel was only 9) and both have such great memories of how she used to cook. So, we eat her food and I get to hear the stories... Wonderful!!
ReplyDeleteGlad you are drawing!! Love, Silke
oh i love this!! and i soooo love deborah's response. lol *chokes on her siliva* lol...oh and she is obcessed with ces....glad to see i'm not the only one. she is hilarious!
ReplyDeleteanother beautiful post ces.
xoxo
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Ces, please post the illustration to your side bar. It's a gift from me to you.
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ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely way to say Happy Birthday!
ReplyDeleteoh that is so so sweet of you CES!!! Deborah is a very wonderful soul and I am so thrilled we are all sisters....
ReplyDeleteYou have outdone yourself with this piece...the trees are so cool!!!
She will be over the moon!!!
Hugs
Diana
Ces are you here?
ReplyDeleteYes, I am. How are you?
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im really sorry.
you're very very nice to me.
i want to hug you right now.
i meant to write something funny on your blog just to make you smile and laugh and stay young and beautiful, really!
about the other day... it felt like i lost my magic power, so i went to my secret garden and took a deep deep breath.
Do you know that plants and gardens and trees can hear us if we talk to them?
if you feel sad, you go to your secret garden, it will help!
now now im feeling better!
have you seen Andrew's work:
http://andrewfinnie.blogspot.com/2010/02/return-of-black-unicorn.html
He made it for us!
I told him that you wanted to see him as a unicorn, you know ;))
and... and.. if you dont mind, i want to keep you in my forest!!!
ReplyDeleteps: dunno why but im ok if you are here.
Mita, we cannot force ourselves to feel emotions that are not real. That will make us very dishonest with ourselves and that destroys creativity and imagination. An artist has to have honest emotions otherwise they can pose as someone else and pretend to make art, well, they can but that makes them technicians rather than artists. You are an artist. You are not a technician. You can keep me in your forest. You are already in mine.
ReplyDeleteso it is true.
ReplyDeletethat im ok if you are here.
to me, you are like my secret garden.
of course im not a technician.
im a hot witch :D LOL
my email addy: mita_indira(at)yahoo(dot)com
i want to share you a little secret later ok ;))
just you and me.
im having my lunch now, 12.23pm here!
Talk to you later, Ces.
truly a visual delight and lucky deborah to have you dedicate this lovely image to her, she must be in nirvana ;)
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