Peacocks - "Surrenderance" Giclee by Laurie Blum

Peacocks - "Surrenderance" New Life Day- Meher Spiritual Center- Myrtle Beach, South Carolina / October 16, 2007.In the Lagoon Cabin amidst vibrantly colored bouquets, a single white ginger lily in a small glass vase captured my attention with its most bewitching fragrance. On the far wall a sign read: "Things that are real are given and received in Silence." Meher Baba.I mused over the extraordinary brilliance of this tiny flower that released its inner fragrance, its essence, in silence. Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "What you are, speaks so loud, I can't hear a word you are saying!"A few months earlier I had dreamt of a White Peacock flying to me from beyond the lagoon, gold dust streaming from her tail. After encircling me three times, she stood in front of me so I could touch her soft white feathers and golden yellow down. I painted her after a deeply touching call with my friend Mahmoud Farshchian. He told me: "My whole family and I, respect your art." When my heart felt those w