SAYINGS OF THE SAGES - DAVINCI

Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 - 1519, Italian painter, sculptor, with many ingenious works in anatomy, botany, geology, hydraulics and mechanics.

"Vitality and beauty are gifts of nature for those who live
according to its laws."

Leonardo wrote left handed in mirror writing, (letters are made backward.)
His mother was an Italian peasant girl and as a child he roamed the hills, sketching plants and rocks. Early boyhood was spent with his father's parents. At about sixteen his father, a lawyer, took him to Florence to study painting. He never married. In 1495 he began painting "The Last Supper." In 1503 he started painting the Mona Lisa, the wife of a Florentine merchant (the painting is now in the Louvre in Paris.) Leonardo was so fascinated himself with it, he worked on the Mona Lisa for years. He left sketches including flying machines, parachutes and helicopters. Many books were written about him and can be found in local libraries.

Thanks Leonardo, for the many wonderful works you left. Here are some words I have dedicated to him:

A thirsty desert felt the rush, Of season's early showers,
That changed the barren sandy dunes, To bright and fragrant bowers.
Imparting beauty through the land, As colors blend in form,
A sweet and gentle fragrance, To meet the early morn.

Its beauty moved as energy, In rays from depths within,
Illuminating body forms, Through patterns each life spins.
To harmonize with All-That-Is, In thought and deed and act,
Its gentle fragrance woven with, Forbearance, love and tact.

That's seen within all lovely things, That good grace manifests,
In tune with true desires of soul, Love's beauty to express.
That joins the flow of life in time, A channel flowing free,
Soul's beauty holds a lighthouse bold, While sailing through life's sea.
Suzie-Q