The Last Bird on the wire...: December 2013

Sunday, December 22, 2013

No driving this year... we are grandma's house.

We be staying HOME this year for "the" holiday.

Be still. Think. Draw. Meditate.

!! KILL YOUR TELEVISION !!

Creativity rarely comes ex nihilo...

Latin term meaning "Out of nothing".

Fill your mind with beautiful images and you will be amazed... what comes out.

All good things require work, inaction is a far greater burden.

Pray to God, but row away from the rocks.

It is increasingly imperative to be creative, think outside the box...

You'll have the rest of eternity to think inside the box...

Never trade the perks of being an artist with the shallow security afforded those who work for "the man". Security is a wonderful thing, but when it comes at the price of freedom, BEWARE!!

From my friends book : PUT A CHERRY ON TOP

The Secrets of Creating an Artful life

Ben Behunin

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Pain, suffering, writer's block...life goes on.

Storage shed... house not big enough... November 2013

I heard the phone ring, saw the eyes get bigger and watched the tears flow down the face, you could almost watch the "bomb" roll in through the front door... no noise, smoke or flame, or outward physical damage... as it exploded in our home. This was all emotional... at every basic primal level and yes it will leave an ugly internal scar. This is raw human pain that only we know how, as people, to inflict on each other. Nothing we do in this life only effects us as we think it does, might or should, it rolls out beyond us like ripples in a pond of still water and bounces off the shore and comes back at us, painfully again, as ever. At times like this, in families, words almost become useless, because we all become numbed by the explosion of these emotional bombs. The silence becomes almost deafening as we try to regroup and gain balance. Prayer becomes solitude as we try to regain faith and hope. And try not to let the ripples get out of the house!