The Traditional Artists Guild

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"Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you." Kahlil Gibran

"I am not a teacher, but an awakener" Robert Frost

"In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath." 'Narcotics and Dissecting Knives' Kahlil Gibran

"The treasure is not gold but insight, and the mystery is cultural not extraterrestrial." Dr Saunders

"In art it is necessary to study the hidden side of life. The artist must be a clairovyant: must see that which others do not see; must be a magician: must possess the power to make others see that which they do not themselves see, but which he does see." Tertium Organum by P D Ouspensky

"There are moments that hold aeons of separation. Yet parting is naught but an exhaustion of the mind. Perhaps we have not parted." Kahlil Gibran

"Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy." Sir Winston Churchill, Speech, 1941, Harrow School

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete" ~Buckminister Fuller

"i before e, except after c" we live in a weird society. No wonder that rhyme never works!!! When the English learn to spell and rhyme in tyme, we will just learn to break their rules again. My condolences to the British, for the English rule the roost.

These are a few of my favorite writers Poets:
William Blake Ogden Nash, the poem, The Tale of Custard the Dragon, the first poem I loved and the first thing I recited in front of an audience... third grade
Richard Red Hawk, T.S. Elliot Edgar Allan Poe (My youngest son is named Raven)
A Tear and a Smile Kahlil Gibran....
King Rene's Book of Love, the only book my husband bought for me. Written in the 15c
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Emilly Dickenson
Virginia Woolf
Maya Angelou

All the Beat Generation: esp. Ken Kesey, Gary Snyder, Charles Bukowski, Allen Ginsberg; The Evergreen Reader, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, editor.

Other Authors I love: Kurt Vonnegut Jr
John Steinbeck (I did have two sons and they loved his works too:
The Winter of Our Discontent
C. S. Lewis
J. R. R. Tolkien
Dan Brown, I enjoyed "Angels and Demons" over "The Da Vinci Code"
Henry Miller
Douglas Adams (I have so much of his work on books on tape)
Virginia Wolfe
bell hook

Some of my favorite books that I read often:
The Three Marias: New Portuguese Letters, the best feminist eroticism I have ever read... written by, of course, the three Marias. (They were jailed for pornography after it was published)

I have read almost all of Tolkien, several times

The Never Ending Story, by Michael Ende... I have it in the first print where the fantasy is typed in green and the "reality" is typed in red. I read that to my youngest son three times.

Daughters of Copperwoman by Anne Cameron (NW Native writer)
Five Minutes to Midnight by Sabi H. Shabtai... very prophetic in relation to 911

As for non-fiction:

Theater of the Oppressed by Augusto Boal (I brought this book and author to our local college and they now actively use his work) Native... I used to be a Jobber... a wholeseller of books about on Indigenous Truths.

There are too many to tell but some of the best are:

Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions
Black Elk Speaks... if you read that you must read,
Forgotten Founders by Bruce Johansen
Mexico Mystique by Frank Waters (any and all of his books)

The heavy stuff:

Tertium Organum and The Fourth Dimension by P.D. Ouspensky All and Everything by G.I. Gurdjieff

Ladies of the Rope: Gurdjieff's Special Left Bank Women's Group by William Patrick Patterson, Barbara C. Allen (A must read to know Gurdjieff)

Atomic Suicide? (1957) by Dr. Walter and Lao Russell ... if you don't know Walter Russell look him up in Who's Who... These two are incredible souls. They founded the University of Science and Philosophy (formerly, The Walter Russell Foundation) In Swannanoa, Waynesboro, VA. (It resides in the former summer White House of President Calvin Coolidge)

I study the doctrines of esoteric knowledge including the Kabbala