The Sunny Pea

I had a run-on thought this morning. I've been having a lot of those lately, and they usually end with a "huh".  Here's mine today: We all live… in our tiny homes, in our tiny worlds bustling like teensy ants on our tiny planet… and if by chance our tiny paths cross from thousands of miles away, we recognize our tiny-ness and if we get a glimpse of what is beyond ourselves throughout the universe, we recognize our tiny-ness, if we dare imagine a God far bigger than any god man has created, we recognize more than just our tiny-ness... we become infinitesimal. So then most of us don't dare or care to think that deeply. Instead, we vainly try to build each other up, to become bigger people. Then we knock each other down to keep each other from getting too big. We build ourselves up to stand above the rest. Then, we loftily try to take a servants bow and put others first, but in our subservient humbling grow even larger in our own minds. Soon we are looming as gre...

It has been almost a year since I last posted on here (things have changed here in the blogosphere and how it all works!) Since my last posting, I discovered 99designs (dot com) a place that artists around the world compete to "win" logo and other art designs that clients bid on, I have competed in hundreds of contests on the site, have gone to the finals of many and have won a few. I have even developed a couple working relationships with clients beyond 99 Designs. One is a cosmetics company that I am working with right now (more later)! Meanwhile, I have not painted anything and truly have missed it.... I started a painting last week... it is a painting of the woods nearby our home at this time. It is from a photo I took in late fall... so it is kind of barebones and austere. On one side, the forest is in shadows, the other side is in light.... I want the painting to have a lot of meaning, and say a lot by saying nothing....  but as I paint it... all I am seeing is ...

Don't let your flame go out, give it the oxygen it needs.

Keep your head in your heart, your heart in your head.

Sunapee, NH Digital Painting