Julia Dreamer

Makeup artist / animal protector

[Kylie Riordan @mindfulheal]

It's all one big miracle… life that is 💙

[Ramblings @ramblingsloa]

Wake at dawn with a winged heart ❤️
And give thanks for another day of loving.

Khalil Gibran

[Julia Dreamer @ArtistFromNARS]

@marcellino60 Courage à vous. J’espère de tout cœur que vous ne souffrez pas.

[Ramblings @ramblingsloa]

The Earth laughs in flowers 🌸

Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Francisco Ribeiro @fraveris]

"The moon shines bright: in such a night as this, when the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees."

~ William Shakespeare.

Kaoru Yamada artwork

[Julia Dreamer @ArtistFromNARS]

@LairdOfThManor Not sure where you live but try vintage shops or charity shops

[Julia Dreamer @ArtistFromNARS]

@LairdOfThManor Beautifully written Laird

[S★ @xxyllinn]

I don’t want to "download the app" to pay for parking. I don’t want to "create an account" to see a menu. I don’t want to "provide feedback" on a 30-second interaction. I just want to exist in the physical world without a digital leash.

[Ramblings @ramblingsloa]

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

Jimi Hendrix

[Julia Dreamer @ArtistFromNARS]

@Irina_exh The phone book

[Julia Dreamer @ArtistFromNARS]

@herodpriovolos The American colloquialisms and accents disappointed me

[Herod Priovolos @herodpriovolos]

Dear Christopher Nolan,
My name is Herod Priovolos and I want to tell you what #TheOdyssey truly means to me and to generations of Greeks who grew up with Homer’s story.
Homer did not sing of Odysseus simply to entertain us with ships, storms, gods and monsters. He told the story because he understood what war, time, distance and loss can do to the human soul.
Odysseus leaves Ithaca as a king, a husband and a father. He returns twenty years later alone, exhausted and disguised as a beggar, carrying the memory of every companion who never made it home.
The monsters are not merely creatures created for spectacle.
The Cyclops is power without justice. The Sirens are the beautiful voices that tempt a person to abandon their purpose. Circe represents the danger of losing our humanity. Calypso offers Odysseus immortality, but even eternal life becomes a prison when the price is forgetting his wife, his son, his homeland and his own identity.
And Ithaca is not merely an island.
Ithaca is the place that remembers you when the world no longer recognizes your face. It is the home that remains alive inside you after everything else has been taken away. It is Penelope growing older while she waits. It is Telemachus becoming a man without his father. It is Argos surviving long enough to recognize his master one final time.
Odysseus is not great simply because he defeats monsters. He is great because he is proud, frightened, wounded, clever, imperfect and deeply human. He loses his companions, his youth, his name and twenty years of his life, yet he refuses to forget who he is.
When he finally returns, Penelope does not recognize him through strength, glory or appearance. She tests him. Odysseus proves his identity by remembering the bed they built together around the roots of a living olive tree.
That is the heart of The Odyssey.
Not the battles.
Not the ships.
Not the monsters.
Two people standing before each other after twenty years, asking whether love, memory and identity can survive everything time has done to them.
That is why this poem has survived for almost 3,000 years. Every human being is trying to return to something: a home, a person, a lost part of themselves, or the life they had before the world changed them.
So use Homer’s seas, gods, heroes and monsters. But please understand what you are touching.
The Odyssey was never truly about how far a man could travel.
It was about how much the world could take from him before he stopped being himself, and whether, after losing almost everything, he could still find his way home.

[Julia Dreamer @ArtistFromNARS]

@KingTunde_SZN 16

[Julia Dreamer @ArtistFromNARS]

@utolupi @CharmOfCulture Could not agree more

[Julia Dreamer @ArtistFromNARS]

@CharmOfCulture California

[Ramblings @ramblingsloa]

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Lao Tzu

[Julia Dreamer @ArtistFromNARS]

@lady_valor_07 Brilliant

[Francisco Ribeiro @fraveris]

Gennady Kirichenko

Still Life with Apricots.

Oil on canvas

[Julia Dreamer @ArtistFromNARS]

@SoVeryBritish I’d like to have a word…