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Green...and getting greener !  " Bad-Ass Cockerel #1 " original painting in acrylic on wood shingle, prints available Dear Friends Old and New, Spring is finally breaking out all over. After rain, today, Verdant comes to mind...green everywhere, beautiful it is! Earth Day has just passed us by. I wonder about this day. No, Earth Day most assuredly doesn't mean 'Vote Democratic, give them money." < grin >  It means, in my opinion, we're all stewards of this earth, every day. Part of our attempts to honor the earth over recent decades has fortunately meant collecting eggs each morning from our 'Spring Chickens,' something we grew to love to do, most especially in the lives of our sons. Here, you see an image dedicated to one of our most feisty cockerels, hence the name, " Bad-Ass Cockerel #1 ." Young roosters were cunningly smart. As chicks, they would take their lessons in the coop each day, waiting patiently for the day to arrive when ...

Holy Week , a Time of Anticipation "My Cosmos Dancer Friend #1 " a detail (#1), oil-on-canvas board original  Dear Friends Old and New, I write for myself in saying this...  but here on Thursday before Easter, Maundy Thursday, the highest of Holy Days in the Christian calendar, my sense is there exists a heaviness in the hearts of millions of us, today. A heavy sense of anxiety, of loss, of utter concern about our Country and its future, about our planet and its future, about life among homo-sapiens, and their future, about our animal friends and their future, about all our biological systems, and their future, about just so much...in this networked, data-driven world. Perhaps in this is to be found the meaning of Easter, the life of Christ, the redemption of sins in Him, the Hope for new life, of His love for all of us, about the meaning of Resurrection , at a time of extreme unrest owing to too many reasons to list here. But I think there is something to it. So here, above,...