Naiade oil painting

Naiade oil painting
Nighthawks Hopper
Nude on the Beach
One Moment in Time
Luke could no longer wait. "I can be a Jedi," he interrupted. It meant morethan anything else to him to become a part of the noble band that had championed thecauses of justice and peace. "I'm ready, Ben…Ben…" The youth called to hisinvisible mentor, looking about the room in hopes of finding him. But all he sawwas Yoda sitting across from him at the table. "Ready are you?" the skeptical Yoda asked. "What know you of ready? Ihave trained Jedi for eight hundred years. My own counsel I'll keep on who is to betrained." "Why not me?" Luke asked, insulted by Yoda's insinuation. "To become a Jedi," Yoda said gravely, "takes the deepest commitment, the mostserious mind." "He can do it," Ben's voice said in defense of the youth. Looking toward the invisible Kenobi, Yoda pointed at Luke. "This one I havewatched a long time. All his life has he looked away…to the horizon, to the sky, tothe future. Never his mind on where he was, on what he was doing. Adventure,