“A Blue Woman Dreaming She Is Becoming Orange”
Wouldn’t it be great if they had emotional tanning salons, where you could be bathed in rays of happiness or seriousness or mercy?
What would you set your emotional tanning bed to?
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Should I make a little kids book out of these guys? LOL
Oppo and Sites attracted
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A Puffy Cloud Day
I love puffy cloud days, those skies that are filled with Simpson clouds (like those in the opening of the TV show, The Simpsons) The make me smile and make me sing ‘What a Wonderful World’.
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“Certifiable, Fortifiable, Undeniable”
The Neckless poet knows how to rhyme!
“Eating is so selfish!”
What could be more selfish than that? It is the ultimate selfish act don’t you think?
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“Edukashun iz importend cuz without it you is stuppid.” – me
I wrote this one so my daughters would realize that going to High School was worth it! haha…truth be told it is always easy to talk in generalities about smart vs stupid, but not very nice to get specific about it. However, it is true that many people, even those with degrees, really aren’t very well educated. They paid attention to only their narrowly focused interest and thought other areas weren’t worth paying attention to. They didn’t apply to their lives, in other words.
What really is happening in that case is the person is unknowingly setting themselves up to be ‘stupid’. ‘Stupid’ in this case I think of as being unaware of the larger world, whether it be history, geography, religion, science, art, politics, ideas or a thousand other topics. However, it is also obvious that none of us can know all there is to know, or even the surface of, all the topics available.
That isn’t the sin of ‘stupidity’. The sin is when you don’t attempt to learn anything, when you think you know it already, when you have no curiosity or interest in the world. That is the sin of ‘stupidity’ and it has consequences just as traditional ‘sins’ do.
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“I probably shouldn’t smoke.”
Notice that these recent napkins are different than previous months? First off, I got a new scanner finally. Second, these are from very early in my drawing of them. Less ornate and detailed in the drawings.
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“Some say you cannot change the world. But I say it’s impossible NOT to change the world. The only question is will you change it for the better of for worse?”
This quote is from me. I have never doubted that every person changes the world, and most change it radically more than they realize, or can realize. Just to take one example out of current affairs (2008) Barack Obama’s father is Nigerian. His
grandparents and great grandparents from that side had no way of knowing the impact their relationships, their unions, would have on America many years down the road. So it is with us.
Some things we can see we have done something, built a business, given good advice, etc. But so much more we will never know. But what we do know is if we behave with love and care, try to grow and mature, build beauty, truth and love wherever and whenever we can, then we will most likely change the world for the better.
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The older I get the more I realize this is true. Great art is not something done in a tub of luke warm water, it’s done with the passion and focus of the bees.
What do you think it takes to create great art?
“The artists, like the bees, must put their lives into the sting they give.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
I remember when I was burned severely as a teenager. My friends didn’t think they could handle it if it happened to them. And I remember realizing at that point and afterwards that ‘handling it’ is much more about what you take from the experience than going through the experience. Going through ‘the experience’ is often pretty automatic in some ways especially if you are in intense pain, turmoil or grief and you are not always consciously thinking about how to ‘handle it’. But, who do you end up being afterwards – Better or bitter, courageous or more fearful? That is the important question.
Anyone have an experience like that?
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“Experience is not what happens to a person. It is what a person does with what happens to them.” – Aldous Huxley