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How to Turn Mundane Chores into Mindful Practices

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First lets break down  how- to? this very questions lacks basic ground work before starting something new and fresh the very hold up, what am I supposed to do or how? I must start something how? do I make this simple? how can I read this? how can I be mindful? how do I sleep and wake up to new beginnings and how? should I plan? So many HOWs and never a laid back concept of starting, we tend to burn our time in thinking and thought processing through out the how and forget that our attention span lasts very less and next minute you forget your tasks, hahah been there, done that! Mundane chores are nothing but your regular routines,  same old patterned day, tasks and lifestyle, same old boring shirt and same old shoes, we follow ones life choices as the best approach to our life as well, we never tend to have our own individuality or self magic, it's true we idolize something that fits the system something so in the ordinary and never out of the ordinary? Mundane- ordinary and s...

Renaissance Scene in Chiaroscuro

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The new era: not the eras tour but... Caravaggio- Renaissance “Mythological Renaissance Scene in Chiaroscuro ” Leonardo da Vinci explored the chiaroscuro in the very works like (The virgin of the rocks and mona Lisa) using soft transitions and the night sleep sweep between light and shadow- the modelling of three dimensional forms Caravaggio took off further with tenebrism, drastically and quite dramatically isolating figures in the darkness of the nocturne punctuated by sharp but exhilarating light scopes- profoundly the calling of saint Matthew Rembrandt and Vermeer refined and refined the approach using warm but focused light to sculpt faces and emotional presence in their Baroque era portraits  David with the head of Goliath, Caravaggio's most powerful and haunting Baroque masterpieces (painted around the 1609-1610)  a personal but emotionally unsettling version, the widely accepted that the decapitated head of Goliath is a self portrait of Caravaggio, this version of...