Unconditional Wavelength: March 2018

About Me

What can I say about myself? I am an ordinary, down-to-earth person who occasionally takes a side-trip down the road to unconventionality. My normalness comes to pass when I’m working my day job. I am obedient, thorough and friendly. My silly self comes to pass when I am within the bosom of my family and friends—who know me well and love me anyway. But it is my serious and oft times eccentric self who surfaces when I am writing. When I take this approach to life I find myself looking at everything with an exploratory eye. I slow down my pace a bit and I develop a keen sense awareness. I become intelligent. I look up, down and all around—and I listen. I may even howl at the moon.

Thursday, March 1, 2018

My Art Work

After I retired I started to learn how to paint. Watercolor in particular. At first it was terrible. I could never draw and even my straight lines weren't straight. But the artist who oversees our Art Open Workshop at the library told me that I should not give up trying. I didn't and my work seemed to be getting better. It's still very amateurish, but at least it's starting to look like something. I've only been at it for a few years, working on my watercolors in between my writing projects. Here are just a few that I have completed.

My niece Kelsey also gave me a lot of encouragement. She is an excellent artist and illustrator, as you can see from some of her art work below:

My Hope

I have always felt strongly about the nature of my fellow man; part of me despises who we are and what we may become; how we are so capable of blindly leading our race toward destruction, rarely thinking about the consequences of our own actions. But with all my heart I love the good-natured soul among us who cares deeply; the soul who reaches passed the sanction of his own, to embrace and comfort those who are alien to him. I hold dear the prospect that it is this loving soul who will preserve our life on this planet and make peace among men.