Imagine if we all treated each other as if we loved each other. How amazing that would be. What a wonderful world it would be to live in. Aren’t we tired yet of all the world-happenings crap? So much anger, frustration, violence, opposition – can’t we agree to just freaking get along?
OH NO! SANTA’S STUCK!
I used to bug my parents about Santa Getting stuck, because our chimney was so narrow. They always told me he ‘magicked’ his way down, shrinking himself and his presents until they landed, when they’d all return to normal size.
AFTERNOON GAMES
Watching TV with all my buddies. Not that I even have a TV. But if I did, maybe it might look like this on a fine rainy afternoon . . . Who could resist sitting around with your best friend and critter buddies? -=-=-=-=-=-
WHERE DOES ‘GRATITUDE’ COME FROM?
It was only after I spent a few months in Italy carving marble, that it dawned on me out-of-the-blue one day where the word comes from – It comes from the word in Latin meaning ‘grace.’ When I was in sixth grade, Latin classes were mandatory. I pretended to hate it, but truthfully, I was […]
HOW I DEAL with PANIC ATTACKS
I used to get panic attacks all the time. I never knew to call them that. I just thought I was being stupid-overanxious. A friend of mine had a monstrous panic attack a few days ago. When I read what she’d gone through, I wished I had done what I promised myself I’d do long […]
Playing with Pyramids
Why Pyramid? Well – the word just popped into my head. So there it is! I had been looking at a lot of Egyptian art lately – think maybe it had some kind of influence? Nah, I don’t think so. I was just fooling around with triangles. And golds and browns and black. Sometimes the […]
FREEDOM
Today I had a long list of got-to-do items. I didn’t do a single one of them. Instead, I got hung up in watching some of the save-the-horses reels on facebook. It completely blows my mind how people just throw horses away as if they are worthless pieces of trash. There was one horse who […]
TWISTY CHEETAHS
Did you know that cheetahs have part dog DNA? I wonder who did that – it was a long, long time ago, whoever it was! But it’s why they have such long legs and such a small head in proportion to the body!
BLACK BIRD FLY . . .
I was listening to one of the Beatles’ albums tonight and their Blackbird song came up. I ‘saw’ this image right off, and hadda draw it. I love the colors! Enjoy.
MAKING MAGICK AT MIDNIGHT
Yesterday I told you how I found out about transforming the perpetual, unrelenting pain in my back into mere background noise, rather than full-front, attention-grabbing annoyance and agony. Simply by wishing blessings upon it. And then upon all of me. And then upon others. And other things. And other places. And the whole planet. And […]
BLINDED BY PAIN
I have many friends who are struggling hard every day – either dealing with weird family BS, money stuff, illness, or pain – it’s unreal how unrelenting life can be sometimes. It makes me wish I had a magic wand I could just wave once or twice and their problems would turn into Good Things.
DON’T PUSH ME IN!
When I was a kid, I was bullied relentlessly by a trio of nasty boys. They’d pop out of nowhere and surround me, taunt me, and push me around until I fell or spilled whatever I was carrying. Or they’d torture any animals in sight just to see what I’d do. At the pool one […]
LIGHT
Light. We need lots and lots of light. Times seem so dark and foreboding – so – here’s some light for you for today! Have you ever noticed that most times we look at plants from the side? What happens when you look at them straight down from the top? This!
NOT NICE TODAY!
I’m not feeling particularly nice today – like my Nice costume got eaten by moths in the closet. . So I’m left with my Real Self, which has a red face, sharp teeth and unpadded words. Ever have a day like that? Not fun! And to top it off, the stew I made last night […]
OSHA – HEALING SUPREME
Did you know that there’s a wild plant that is so effective that many healers carry its root and dried leaves around with them? It looks like the carrot plant, with its tall stems and big white umbrels. But the root is way more powerful than the carrot’s. It’s anti-bacterial, anti-viral, and anti-inflammatory. It helps […]
WAVING to MY FRIENDS
Because why not? How else will we perpetuate love and joy? I invite you to choose to have fun today, and purposely add a whole bunch of good hearty laughter to the world.
PLANT A WORLD TREE
I find solace from the woes of the human world by being in nature. Even if it’s only standing on my door stoop, taking time to take breaths of not-house air. I’m reminded today about the first time I did that – stood out on my stoop, just breathing in the lovely clean sea-air of […]
APPRECIATE WHAT YOU’VE GOT!
Why? Because sometimes life is short, hard, and brutal. And some people only get a few chances at The Good Stuff. And some people get mowed down, their lives cruelly cut short. It’s sad and discouraging to think people value life so little that they have the gall to take other peoples’ lives, ending a […]
ROCKY LOVES FISHIES for DINNER
When I was a kid, I used to love watching the resident raccoons wash their food. I thought they were the most fastidious critters I’d ever seen. Then one morning on my way past the trash bins on my way to the bus stop, The raccoons had tipped over one of the bins and there […]
THE GOOD CATCH
In our not-too-long-ago past, there used to be little fishing villages where the guys go out every morning and come back with their boats laden with fishies. When they return at dusk on the rosy horizon, the women and chilluns gather round down on the strand and dance and sing, celebrating the good catch as […]
LEG CRAMPS!
Do you get leg or foot cramps? Did you know those cramps are known to be caused by lack of water in your system, and possibly not enough magnesium? Next time these debilitating cramps wake you up at night, or pounce upon you as you sit at dinner, or as you walk down the street, […]
ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS – I WIN!
We don’t play enough. We’re so serious, our faces dragging across the floor like wet mops, full of regret, anger and seriosity. Remember your mom saying, don’t frown – your face is going to get stuck like that? Turns out it’s true! And then we look aghast in the mirror at the lines running down […]
WHAT ART DOES FOR ME
Today it was so hot I felt like someone was sucking my energy right out of my cells. Have you ever felt like that? I think it was pure miracle that I didn’t just wither and slide into a fluid puddle on the floor! But I have a Secret Thing I use to re-energize – […]
PEACE BIRDIES
Are we tired of chaos yet? As if it will ever end! Right? It’s the nature of this contrasty world! That still doesn’t mean I can’t wish for a moment of peace once in a while. Actually, I’d like a very lonnnng moment of peace. I find I’m the one responsible for that, however – […]
IS IT TRUE ‘WE ARE ALL ENERGY’?
Well, maybe it is – I think so, anyway! So – how’s your frequency lately? Are you radiating light yet? I was homeless in the late 90s. The only thing that kept me out of desperation-depression, and kept me going every day, was being able to make art. I sat in my car drawing, I […]
CELEBRATE!
Because you just don’t know when the End is. It’s really that simple. Life is precious, but we treat it as ho-hum, it’ll be here tomorrow. Well, maybe it will, but maybe you won’t. I’ve had friends just up and leave the planet – no warning, no illness, just – poof – gone. One got […]
FIX the LEAKS!
Although my kitchen sink was replaced recently with a beautiful stainless steel one, somehow they forgot to update the funky old sink-swallower. Generally called disposals, but I like my name better. I don’t use it much. Because instead of oh-so-nicely downing and chewing the content inserted, it rears up and gags and spits and roars […]
Ever Looked into A Whale’s Eye – from 3 F
It’s whale time of year! So many whale videos lately! Breaching, jumping, having baby whales, humans swimming with them — I never get tired of them. Makes me remember one of the best things I ever did in my life. I sailed from Kauai to California in August, 1984. It was just me and Skipper, an older […]
SINGING HOME THE FLOWERS
Pain vs. Beauty is a real thing. Life can be so distracting! I have a chronic pain thing that keeps trying to usurp my energy and attention 24/7. Such a bludy PITA. That’s one of the reasons I do so many designs. During the time I’m drawing – it’s like imbibing a whole bottle of […]
TO-DOs that I DON’T DO, and SOME THAT I D
Last night I sat down and organized my latest to-do lists. Long term, short term to-dos, and in betweens that don’t really fit anywhere. Planning, of course, that when I got up today I’d dive right in and tick them off one by one as I got them done. Have I done any of them […]