True Art & True Artists

Be original, one-of-a-kind, create from deep inside your heart & mind, not only from your eyes & ears. Be inspired, but be you and no one else. Those who do will be recognized, respected & remembered. Imitations are easily forgotten.

Most great Artists suffer(ed) despite their amazing gift(s). Great Artists ahead of their time often were recognized later in life or when they were gone. They did not choose Art because it brought them power or money. They chose it because it was their love, their soul and who they were born to be. They chose nothing, Art chose them. 



~hYdE

Wolves need your Help!

As of January 18, 2013, Judge Brenda Gilbert has issued an injunction allowing wolf trapping & hunting to resume just north of Yellowstone.  More information regarding this devastating news here: 

http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/judge-wolf-hunting-trapping-can-continue-near-yellowstone-park/article_a10df02c-61d5-11e2-90f1-001a4bcf887a.html. 

Please sign and help these beautiful animals that cannot speak for themselves. Thanks, all. ~ h

SIGN HERE & SHARE:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/583/565/737/stop-wolf-

hunting-trapping-at-yellowstone/#

Photo credit: ____?

Cat with 2? Lives.

Yea, so.. another year has passed.. but what's special about this time of year, is that I was reborn.  Kicked the bucket, dumped the pail, made a sand castle out of it. Yep!  You folks all get to endure my hippie-peace flags waving & beach pics & fruitcake-jumping-for-life pics because why?  I was reborn 21 years ago about this time.  I'm officially legal all over again!  Prost!  I think that's cause for a celebration, don't you?  =)  Happy 21st Birthday to ME! Yes, I feel young, happy, blessed & grateful for everything.  Amazing that one small incident can alter a state of being in a second.....& another can make it OK...or take it away.. I was lucky.  So tell the people you care about how much you do, & love them with all your heart.  Because maybe someone loved me, & wouldn't have been able to tell me; like my Kids who came some years later. =)  Life is so short, respect it. Respect people.  Put differences aside. Forget the stupid stuff.  Nothing is more important than your loved ones.  Time is short & time is all we have. Always leave on a good note.  You never know which day your last words will be said.  

Make a statement!  Make it love.

Peace. ~hYdE 

RE: January 1992
[art by ____?  but thanks.]

There is a beginning & an end to everything......
It's simply a personal choice to take & make the best of both.

http://www.hyderock.net

Precious are these times, to appreciate the small things in Life 

& the big people in our Lives... our Children. ~ Hyde Rock. 

[Nov 11, 2012 - Smith Point Beach, Post Hurricane Sandy]
Photo by hYdE rOcK ©
http://www.hyderock.net/

Go Bigger

Perhaps many people are afraid of getting what they truly want, 

taking the dive into something bigger, something better... 

challenging themselves; because there's much more to lose if they did. 

But the secret is: If you haven't tried, you've already lost a lot.