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New Year's Day 2024

 Today is the first day of 2024 and I had many plans for the weekend, but no, I spent the weekend on the couch down with a cold. I'm finally getting over it, just in time to go back to work. I would love to have a whole week off but I am saving up my time for a good vacation. I would love to do a workshop this year somewhere. Also this year I would to do... pray a lot more make a difference become more righteous make more meaningful art make more art period sale art write more be more at peace and joyful And create fearlessly. So I'm praying for a good year. For myself. And for my family and friends. And for everyone. My prayers for everyone this year is for health, joy and happiness, and good fortune. God bless everyone in the coming year.

60 year old me

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Happy Birthday Me! Last full moon of 2023

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Today is my birthday. My sixtieth birthday. Wow. Just wow.  When you are young you never think that you will get to this age. You have the thought that you have all the time in the world. Like the song from For King and Country says "Why are we spending time like someone is making more". I never thought that I would get to this age even though I knew some day I would God willing if the Rapture hadn't occurred yet. Isn't this a lovely full moon. The last full moon of 2023. So beautiful and bright. The kind of life I would like to have. Beautiful and Bright. The kind of light that no one could ignore (another FK&C reference). This past year went so quickly that it was gone before I could really get it all in.  So I am hoping that this next year will be better. I would love to look back on my sixty one birthday and see that I made a change in the world or at least to someone in this year. All this is by God's will alone of course.  

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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Holiday Craziness

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I was browsing the magazine racks at Barnes and Noble the other day looking at the Christmas issues and just wishing I could decorate my house like some of these, but then I thought maybe not. The houses decorated in the magazines are staged to look good. No kids or pets running around. Not real. Seriously, if someone tried to keep their houses clean and untouched like these houses it would drive them crazy (or make the families very unhappy with them.) And I admit that I was one of these people a long time ago. But then I couldn't enjoy the holidays. I think no one could. Too busy trying to be House Beautiful worthy. Homes are meant to be lived in and show it. Children running around. Pets running around. Smells of dinner cooking. Loud and wonderful. That's life. Not those pictures in a magazine.  

Ruth and Naomi

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Ruth and Naomi walking through a village among the wheat field. The story of Ruth and Naomi in the Book of Ruth is a beautiful story of love. The love of Ruth for her mother-in-law Naomi, the love of Naomi for Ruth and her wish for Ruth to have a good future after the death of Naomi's husband and sons. Also the love of Boaz for Ruth. And even though the Lord is not mentioned in the story I can also see His love for us, His children.  I was actually struggling with this painting as an abstract until I was passing it on my way out of my studio and happened to look at it and saw the figures of the two women, the older and the younger. I like to think that the Holy Spirit showed them to me. The work is done on a 12 x 12 wooden panel. Materials used are acrylic paint, oil pastels, white ink, interference paint, and graphite pencil. $120 with free shipping