Another collection of seven dailies from the Facebook Page!
The Rod
Raise the Rod of the Ruler of wild things
Worthy of waking the waste to his will;
Even the ash will answer to aid the Otherworldly.Where will the Cry in the way take the wakeful?
To hidden, hoary teachers of high tokens,
To loose their lines into the unlocked lands.– Patrick Lauser
Another collection of seven dailies from the Facebook Page!
A technique for using Gimp:
Instead of using a brush to apply something, duplicate the layer you are working on (right click the layer in the layer list and it has the option, or do Ctrl+Shift+D).
Change the filters and settings on the copy, then put the altered layer below the original, and use the eraser brush on the original.
I have found this makes a vastly smoother gradient for some reason, and because the eraser has the anti-erase option you more or less do not have to worry about running out of or confusing undo steps. This also allows a brush to be used to apply changes that would not otherwise have a brush option.
You can also try different effects while keeping the same brush pattern, by making multiple duplicate layers and altering them differently.
Another collection of seven dailies from the Facebook Page!
Rise with the rosy light, right your way,
Clothe yourself in craft and fiercely cry;
The world, the watching, the ways of them,
Nay, the never-ending sound of night;
They force offense on the friends of law:
The crooked colour of the high cloud
Shall judge their injustice with fell joy.– Patrick Lauser
It should never be “Quantity versus Quality”: they must work together.
Quality can hardly exist without quantity, and quantity without quality is useless.
– Patrick Lauser
“You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve, and that is both honor enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth.
Be content.”– Aslan in Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis
“Now are the clouds like fiery shrouds; the sun, superbly large,
Slow as an oak to a woodsman’s stroke, sinks flaming at their marge;”
– From The Ballad of the Boat by Richard Garnett
The Moment Thought
A hand
On the shoulder
Laid in purposeful rest
Says a word in silent fullness
And peace.– Patrick Lauser
There are two things you will never get used to:
Heaven, and Hell.
– Patrick Lauser
A Wind in the Heart
Breathes a token of Fear,
Darkness builds his Art
And lays foundations here.
While hopeless in strife
He has wounded me sore,
In the Light of Life
There is opened a Door.– Patrick Lauser
Till another week, God be with you all!
– Patrick
Another collection of seven dailies from the Facebook Page!
Let eyes be opened in this world, truth taught by truth, and the thoughts of many generations weighed in the balances that are dusty and unused.
– Patrick Lauser
Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.
Isaiah 41:4
At the Temple of Truth in the glory of your Name I will worship the King of Peace.
– Patrick Lauser
“How can such a very little creature as you grant or refuse anything?”
“Is that all the philosophy you have gained in one-and-twenty years?”
– From Phantastes by George MacDonald
Enlarge my Steps
A Star,
A King enthroned,
A Light in glory raised;
A glint, a song, its pureness praised,
And lost.– Patrick Lauser
I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
Isaiah 45:12
“The children huddled close together on each side of Puddleglum. They had thought him a wet blanket while they were still above ground, but down here he seemed the only comforting thing they had.”
– From The Silver Chair: Travels Without The Sun, by C. S. Lewis
Till next week, God be with you!
– Patrick
“You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve,
and that is both honor enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar,
and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth.
Be content.”
– Aslan in Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis
