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The English Patient

September 18th, 2013

The English Patient

It's not being abandoned that is my worst nightmare, it's the fear of being the abandoner, of letting someone down, though I imagine that has it's origins in fear of abandonment.

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The English Patient

When I Come Home

September 10th, 2013

When I Come Home

One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.
- Pam Brown

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When I Come Home

Stand by Me

September 10th, 2013

Stand by Me

Recently on the forum the subject came up again and advice was given on how to make a good, saleable portfolio. Artists were urged to only include what they think will sell, and to tighten it up, to clean it up. While I appreciate the desire to be helpful of those giving the advice, I can't think like that.

I do my thinking when I walk my dog, because it is about the only time, aside from driving my automobile, I don't have cats crawling all over me, and because when they are, I am only thinking only how do I keep them from knocking over my coffee, pulling keys off my computer, getting in the cabinet I am opening, etc.?

But here's the thing, I have sold images on FAA I never dreamed anyone would ever understand, much less buy. These are images I love but I didn't think anyone else would. Some I almost didn't upload, some I almost took down. I suppose out of intimidation, our of a fear people would assume I don't know what I am doing. But I stood by them and exposed myself to possible ridicule, disdain, misinterpretation, and worst of all, dismissal.

And what I realized when walking Muji yesterday was this, good artists try to appeal to current tastes, great artists shape tomorrows tastes. I want to be a great artist. I want to be an artist that shapes tomorrow's tastes.

Though I am frought with the anxieties and insecurities of any artist trying to do something new, especially presenting in front of a bunch of obnoxiously self assertive and arrogant (know it all) artists who seek only to create more of the status quo - comfortable art that appeals to current tastes, I stand by my work. I believe in it.

You can only say so much about this in the forum though without making yourself a target. ;)

To anyone who reads this post and was one of those people I may never know who bought one of these pieces, who took a chance on what I see, on how I see the world, or perhaps you even see for yourself with your own eyes and we share some kind of soul, thank you. It's the best feeling in the world. I do know what I am doing and why I am doing it, even though everyone may not like or understand what I am doing and why I am doing it. I stand by me. And I hope you feel like I stand by you, too.

Sometimes you have to stick your neck out for what you believe to be the truth. There is no better friend than the truth which is constantly sticking its neck out for us.



Animal Rescuers Burnout by Gila Todd

September 7th, 2013

Animal Rescuers Burnout by Gila Todd

Great article

Animal rescuers: burnout
by Gila Todd

Remembering Theo or Something You Somehow Have Not to Derserve

September 5th, 2013

Remembering Theo or Something You Somehow Have Not to Derserve

'Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.'

'I should have called it Something you somehow haven't to deserve.'

-- Robert Frost, from The Death of the Hired Man


'Theo' was short for Theodorus. Theodorus is an old Greek name meaning "gift of god" - from the Greek words, θεος (Theos) "God", and δωρον (doron) "gift".

continue reading http://alteredcats.blogspot.com/2013/09/something-you-somehow-havent-to-deserve.html

Leave Room for Beauty

August 13th, 2013

Leave Room for Beauty

I don't like work that is too polished or too finished, or work that tries to impress itself upon me by skill. It is tedious to look at. I like to see the artist struggling with the truth, like Jacob wrestling with the angel. And I like when they leave room for me to enter the painting to figure it out. Whose understanding is so great they are going to define beauty for me with a painting? It always turns out laborious. You can't define beauty. It simply is. Beauty, if we are willing, and we get down low enough, will by the grace of God visit and define us.

The Great Liberal Death Wish by Malcolm Muggeridge

July 11th, 2013

The Great Liberal Death Wish by Malcolm Muggeridge

http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles/MuggeridgeLiberal.php

"They say, moreover, that when it's a question of choosing whether to save your soul or your body, the man who chooses to save his soul gathers strength thereby to go on living, whereas the man who chooses to save his body at the expense of his soul loses both body and soul."

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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
--Fyodor Dostoevsky

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.
--Fyodor Dostoevsky

Why people walk away from the truth

July 11th, 2013

Why people walk away from the truth

The wayfarer, by Stephen Crane

The wayfarer,
Perceiving the pathway to truth,
Was struck with astonishment.
It was thickly grown with weeds.
"Ha," he said,
"I see that none has passed here
In a long time."
Later he saw that each weed
Was a singular knife.
"Well," he mumbled at last,
"Doubtless there are other roads."

Heartbreak - Losing Theo, Losing Purpose

June 26th, 2013

Heartbreak - Losing Theo, Losing Purpose

Heartbreak - Losing Theo, Losing Purpose

"“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, ..."
Matthew 25:31-46

Theo passed away early yesterday morning, about 4:15 AM. I was up with him all night.

Read more: http://alteredcats.blogspot.com/2013/06/heartbreak-losing-theo-losing-purpose.html

Heartbreak - Losing Pookie to Reality

April 15th, 2013

Heartbreak - Losing Pookie to Reality

"Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect." — C.S. Lewis


Yesterday morning I was drivng to the feeding stations when I saw something in the road just in front of the park. There was a car ahead of me. I strained to see around the car. But the car steered around whatever it was, leaving me an open view. It was a cat.

I pulled over to take the cat out of the road and held my breath until I was close enough to see who it was. It was Pookie. She was dead. She must have been hit hours before.

I moved her out of the road and looked around in the open field for her kittens. That's where she was headed when she was hit. She had her litter a couple of weeks ago. I couldn't find them. Pookie was coming up on 1 year old. I have been feeding her since she was a kitten.

Read more here: http://alteredcats.blogspot.com/2013/04/heartbreak-losing-pookie-to-reality.html

 

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