Stories Collected While Living in France

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What creates passion within you? The type of passion that stirs the everyday current to overflow…where the need for expression electrifies you…catches you off guard and races through you like a waterfall?  Passion. Creativity. Birth. The dance of the thunderbolt and the spark that sets fire in your veins?

When I feel this pulse start its frantic beat inside of me…grabbing my hands, reaching down into my soul, piercing my mind with dancing light, I know that there is a God in love with us, that I could die at the moment and call it happiness!

Tell me what does it take to make us feel alive, and move mountains?

Photo: French antique jewelry, imagine the soirees they attended and the operas they heard? Personal collection from scouring the flea market last weekend.

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Comments

37 responses to “Art Supplies”

  1. Shannon

    It’s a certain spark…

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  2. susan@artstream

    life each day creates my passion to create more. we came from a creative being. why wouldn’t we be smiled upon to create too?

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  3. meredith

    I feel this passion when I am making music.

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  4. Jeanne

    My family, friends and faith are my passions in life………..
    People that are genuine, and have kind loving hearts move my soul!
    The only kind I choose to associate with!!!!!!!!!
    I am so happy when surrounded by everyone I love………
    Life is fast and fleeting and the times spent with loved ones all the more precious!
    Love you Sugar Plum!
    Love Jeanne
    X0X0

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  5. mary ann

    it’s gardening for me… tending to my lovelies…& also being in the great outdoors…all my senses are heightened>>>so happy to be alive!
    as usual, cool post for sf!
    🙂 mary ann

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  6. Britt-Arnhild

    Paintings, like “coat in many colours” seen in my blog today

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  7. herhimnbryn

    P eople
    A rt
    S ensuality
    S ong
    I ndividualism
    O nly him
    N ew beginnings

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  8. cruststation

    I guess it’s not just one thing that stir up passion in me. I love meeting and getting to know people, to find the common interests to learn from others, individual idiosyncrasies. Adventures when visiting somewhere new, learning a new sport…etc 🙂

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  9. Kristen Robinson

    Lovely Corey! I have found lately that passion often flows towards me in a slow wave while doing things that often seeem simple; suddenly before I realize I am consumed by the need to realease it.
    A painting, a book, a photo, even a cup of tea stirs the quiet in me until it is loud and I need to satisfy it by creating my art.
    My Best-
    Kristen

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  10. Josephine

    Passion?
    This question stopped my brain dead in her tracks, and I kept asking myself, what creates passion in me?
    And, I came up with nothing. It seems that since the surgeries, I’ve temporarily lost my passion.
    But I have faith that it will return, stronger than ever before.

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  11. diana

    now that the looooooong loooong rain has stopped…. I have passion for whatever crosses my path today !

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  12. susanna

    What creates passion within me? Art. I once saw a Nan Goldin exhibition on couples in love. Byork wrote and sang music especially for this show. When I left the gallery I was floating, drunk on the love expressed in the artwork, and had to tell everyone I knew about it. I learned another valuable lesson from that exhibition: women should always, no matter their age or body shape, wear sexy underwear! No more granny panties!

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  13. andrea

    Oh these are lovely. I think the victorian woman in the broach looks just like YOU! Especially when you compare it to the photo at the top of your site…see, did you look? It is you!
    To answer your question? Love.
    a.

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  14. Annie

    My passions – my family, observing the world around me, learning to record it through photos and poetry, conversations with friends, coffee!, travel -both mine and the adventures of others.

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  15. deirdre

    I know this is probably boring, but the more stability there is in my life the more creative I feel. I’m an african violet, needing to be a little root bound in order to bloom. That’s when my attention can be given over to passions and creativity.

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  16. mikaelah

    having friends who are gems… who overerlook what needs overlooking and notice what needs noticing.

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  17. katie

    seeing in the moment with fresh eyes, eyes that see with my heart – the object doesn’t matter in that state, it is the act of seeing that invokes passion…
    i love your blog, corey, thank you for sharing your infectious thoughts and ponderings.

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  18. Shelley

    Passion…
    I am very passionate about lots of things. This one is so opposite of who I am-
    Nascar. From qualifying on Friday to the race on Sunday, I can’t get enough. I am glued to my chair with my heart pounding. It is excitment I can’t explain. How can I be passionate about going in circles for hours? I don’t know,,,,, but I am.

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  19. arttealife/onecrabapple

    I think your “Garden Angel” might do that for me…(heh heh heh)

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  20. Tammy

    My passion comes from my husbands love, my grandson’s smile and know God is by my side cheering for me 🙂

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  21. lauren

    A passion within which I could “die happy at that moment”? It would probably be with a mouth full of chocolate… or maybe… doughnuts?! hahahaha!!
    Teasin’,
    My true passion–my daughter, my husband, our life.

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  22. amber

    For me, love. And also, need. I feel fire in my gut when I see a need that should be met. I know I feel God’s true presence, when I feel passionate about meeting a need in someone, for someone. I get excited about life, and passionate, when I see change for the good, and see a way I can contribute.
    🙂

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  23. renee

    Thank you for the beautiful photo — all the beautiful photos and words that keep me coming back. Do you realize that the girl in your cameo winked at me? Probably an illusion, but such an unexpected little surprise!

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  24. Paris Parfait

    Such a beautiful post, Corey! As you know, I share one of your passions – the hunt for beautiful old things at brocantes, flea markets and the beauty in the everyday. It’s like unearthing buried treasure and what a thrill it is to find something really precious! 🙂

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  25. kit

    Food
    and my family
    the flavours
    of both
    infused
    with love

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  26. tiffini elektra x

    love, art, wine, good food, traveling, conversations with good friends, faded antiques, people ignoring their obstacles, music, fantastic websites like this one. . .

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  27. Sarah Scott

    Passion: Color, art, my children, my husband, cheese, rain, books.
    I love this photo. I must confess I love to shop, and your blog feels like I have gone antiquing without spending a dime!

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  28. Cat

    This is beautiful. All the comments posted are beautiful and passionate. I’m filled.
    My passions are my God, my husband, my sons, my grandsons, my freedom to create and live and love. Plus crazy quilting and motorcycling and snowmobiling and oh…I am soooo blessed!
    Corey, you are such a light!

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  29. susan

    “the dance of a thunderbolt”. I love that! Why be afraid of thunder? Dance with it!
    My passion and creativity (which i see as one in the same) comes from EMERGING myself in what I am doing, without caring about the outcome.. this is key. It is in these moments I suddenly come back to “reality” to find 2 hours have passed by while I’ve been “working”… completely in touch with and plugged into the spark of the divine. THAT’S what being creative and passionate is about to me!
    🙂

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  30. naturegirl

    Gardening is a passion of mine
    an extention of my soul.I also have a passion for my pets and
    that comes from my heart.I am passionate about my husband and children and grandchildren…from the heart. I have a passion for chocolate! Having passion a wonderful thing!!:)Lovely photo.

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  31. jinxthegypsy

    Beautiful words and picture. I feel the passion while i’m painting or listening to foot tapping music:)

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  32. Catalina

    the old costumes “d’epoque” and hats (one like Napoleon one) and umbrellas found in an old chest at the attic of the ancestors house…
    Flamenco music and salsa
    blues (the colour)
    Islands
    Tropical weather
    mountains
    some people, specially kids.
    people who safes lifes (in many ways)

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  33. Catalina

    oh! I forgot a true passion: Water……..ocean…..lakes….drinking water….water……..and trees

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  34. Catalina

    and snow of course! huge quantities…so white, calm.

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  35. Lee

    A Woman. A lovely woman.

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  36. am*

    that ring is just lovely!
    I trust you are enjoying California and wearing out your sandals + flip flops (I sort of dislike those words together like that.
    summer loving.

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  37. tempestdelfuego

    God, art, music, my love, family, friends, the ocean, the rain, silence, hugs, adventure, each new day…

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