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Join The Symphony
685. Join me in inspiring truly powerful people. Each day I will add a new thought, story or idea to support your quest and mine. The exercise in class was a word cluster, a free association...
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Sound Glorious
687. Join me in inspiring truly powerful people. Each day I will add a new thought, story or idea to support your quest and mine. Today as I walked north on 5th Avenue from the International District...
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Revisit And Revise
I used this painting as the cover image for The Ground Truth. I call this painting Pigeon Pier. With the success of my book, The Seer, I’ve been revisiting some previous manuscripts and ebooks. I have...
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Speak Your Truth
old photo of an old watercolor. I did this painting sometime in the 1980’s Words hook me and lately I’ve been paying attention to the difference in the phrases: Speak the truth, and Speak your truth...
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See Again and Again
A detail from my painting, An Instrument of Peace It has become my habit, when I finish a painting, to take photographs of sections of the piece. It helps me see it again. Often, I like these detail...
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Walk Through The Firewall
from my narrative series: Sleepers The text read something like this: There are some things in life you cannot circumnavigate. You can only move through them. Carol told me that each year there is a...
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Use Reason
“When a speaker who does not know the difference between good and evil tries to convince a people as ignorant as himself, not by ascribing to a poor beast like a donkey the virtues of a horse, but by...
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Do Anything Else
It occurs to me now that all along I’ve been asking irrelevant questions. Or, perhaps framing my questions too narrowly. For instance, years ago I went to graduate school to study systems because I...
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Find The Way Home
“Our search for truth must be wide open, even when it takes us in directions we preferred not to go. This is the difference between propaganda and truth. Propaganda has a certain end in mind, and so it...
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Begin
my studio and all of my current messes-in-progress “Where I create I am true, and I want to find the strength to build my life wholly upon this truth, this infinite simplicity and joy that is sometimes...
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Look To The Living Thing
my latest, as yet un-named, painting Kerri looked at this painting and told me it captures how she feels when our daughter is hurting and calls home. “Describe that feeling to me?” I asked. She pointed...
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Stay Fully Alive
a more recent smaller painting: In Quiet Prayer Horatio issued me this challenge: do something new, something you’ve never done before. Paint something different, something that boggles you. I love...
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Chicken Marsala Monday
A Chicken Marsala thought-nugget from the melange to help you start the new week Faith is one of THOSE words. So, as is my practice when wading into one of THOSE words, I look it up before writing...
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Put On Your Rubber Boots [It’s Chicken Marsala Monday]
A Chicken Marsala Monday nugget to help kick-start your week. find your puddles and play We were clearing the room of furniture. We needed wide open space to do our work. It was early in our...
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Let It Catch You [on Flawed Cartoon Wednesday]
Although I wish I could claim otherwise, I drew this before our most-current age of Truthiness (thank you, Stephen Colbert). All those years ago when I first saw a photographer alter a photograph with...
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Savor Good Moments [on KS Friday]
When you find yourself wondering what it’s all about, play this game: fill in the blank, “In this life I have….” Fill in the blank again and again and again, searching your memory banks for all the...
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Pray In Opposites [on DR Thursday]
A Prayer Of Opposites, acrylic on panel, 48 x 48IN I love this painting and for some reason have never included it in a show. An early version of it hung for a few years in the undergraduate offices...
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Eat Some Laughter [on Not So Flawed Wednesday]
“Every lie begins with a truth.” Jonathan casually tossed that gem-of-a-phrase into our dinner conversation. I could write pages on his prompt – especially in these times – but that is a rant for...
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Ask A Question [on Merely A Thought Monday]
“The world is as full of opinions as it is of people. And you know what an opinion is. You say this, and somebody else says that. Each one has an opinion, but opinion is not truth; therefore do not...
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Close The Gap [on Merely A Thought Monday]
Do you remember Robert Fulghum’s book, All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten? Share everything. Play nice. Don’t hit people. Clean up your own mess. It is filled with simple undeniable...
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