The Turkish art of Marbling: Ebru

 

Water...It represents purity, cleanliness and  limpidity. Few things are as miraculous.In my opinion, Ebru is one of them. Ebru is graceful, and powerful art. The art of Turkish marbling is called Ebru. Ebru means colorful in Turkish. Actually, no one knows exactly about when it started. There are different origins about Ebru however; most scholars believe that it originated in Bukhara, Turkestan. From there, it spread along the trades routes to Persia, India, Anatolia, and later to France, Italy and Holland. According to Ebru artists, —Ebru is the art of creating colorful pattern by Sprinkling and brushing color pigments on a pan of oily water and then transforming this pattern to paper. It is an art which cannot be learning by listening or reading.It is extremely difficult to do. I wish I learned it one day...

Interesting questions...

Let’s think about these questions and please try to answer…

• When you make a big sacrifice, do you tell people about it or keep it to yourself? What would you never willingly sacrifice? Your life? Your health? Your integrity? Your dreams?
• If you saw someone cheating on a test, what would you do? What if you had signed an honor code?
• If you were guaranteed honest responses to any three questions, who would you question and what would you ask?
• If you could spend one year in perfect happiness but afterward would remember nothing of the experience would you do so? If not, why not?

When you make a mistake,admit it;learn from it and do not repeat it...

In everyday life, everybody has a mistake as a small or big. The important thing is what we are learning from our mistakes or what our mistakes gain to us. As a proverb "Only a fool makes the same mistake twice". Mistakes are an important part of life. George Bernard Shaw says that " a life spent making mistakes, is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing". In my opinion, mistakes give us many experience to how to stand in life. Moreover mistakes give us more ripeness in life. Take it easy...Do not afraid to make a mistake but, do not repeat it again and again...:)

A story...(You cannot ride away from your fate)

There was a merchant in somewhere who sent his servant to market to buy something whatever his master wanted. When he came back, he was trembling. And he said to his Master " In the market I jostled by a women in the crowded and when I turned I saw it was Death. She looked at me and made me threatening gesture.Please let give a horse and let me go to India where is distance from here and the Death cannot find me" The merchant let him go. After a while the merchant went to the market and he saw the Death. He said to Death:"why did you make a threatening gesture to my servant?" And then the Death answered:"That was not threatening gesture,it was only a surprise because I have an appointment with him tonight in India...

It is nice to be important,but it is more important to be nice...

For many of people would like to be important however, for my opinion, it is important to be nice. Many people would like to shown up by their important ability or they just want to be important. however, there is a case here. If everyone would like to be important, everyone could be thought just about themselves. This situation makes everybody selfish and we cannot live in the world. We have to sacrifice something all the time. This is make a difference of life. Frankly, we cannot be important for everybody but we can be nice for everybody. So it is important to be nice...be nice all the time:)

Teachers are keys for students...

• As you know, in the “concepts for today” book we mention about “teachers are keys for students”. I really appreciate this topic. Even though teachers are keys for students teachers can unlock the door or lock the door for the students. What does it mean that unlock and lock the door to the students? It means that, teachers can make the students loving the lessons or not. Teachers can change your thoughts and you can change your world. Good teachers are key for student achievement and success. Think about it, when we start going to school? The answer should be when we are so little as a 6 or 7 ages. Sometimes under these. Especially, in those ages we do not believe anyone except our teacher. Even though our mom or dad is a teacher, they are wrong about what they say...On the other hand there is a Chinese proverb says" Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself"...:)