Caricature Express

Today’s drive - it was the easiest ever.
There was practically no traffic on the roads
(Very unusual for going over the Throggs Neck Bridge).
And the roads had been cleared perfectly.

Even shoveling my driveway was fine.
It wasn’t so cold. It was nice out there -
felt like I was communing with the earth, gently scratching it’s skin.

I worked at a First Night Celebration in a Library -
It was nice and comfortable - Lighting and sound were plenty to my liking,
I was interviewed on the Radio there (New Rochelle),
and I felt very much appreciated by the polite guests.

Just goes to show
once again
that we don’t have to be afraid to do what we’ve decided to do.
I usually say that I learn how to live
by creating the Drawings,
but today I even learned how to live
by doing the Work part of my job.
We don’t have to be Afraid! If we wouldn’t have recognized it as a danger when we were babies, it’s not a real danger. Fears can disappear like floating dust-clouds.

Most of the things that hold Adults back
are completely unnecessary fears
that dissipate as soon as we refuse to let them have any power over us,
as soon as we refuse to let them affect us.
Do what you think you should do
to get what you want.

Best Wishes to us all in the New Year.
I’m confident that I’ll see a lot of growth in all areas of my Life.

This one was quick and easy for me.
Although sometimes I’m studying,
most of the time I’m just having fun.

Let’s get real.
Art is supposed to be for Fun.

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This picture was Sooo hard for me. To stick to my original idea of
scrunching up one side of the face as in the last photo. But I didn’t give up.

The vision - what I want to draw - that’s the art - that’s the part that some people fake - never even knowing what to see - how to see it. And then, even if they could imagine it, not pushing themselves to draw that vision. But I have drive. I’m really interested. For myself. I want to be inspired - I want to find my own ideas. And I want to figure out how to bring them to fruition. Even if other (plainer) pictures would be passable since nobody else knows an Artist’s visions. They don’t know what’s inside us, or if there even Is anything there.

Without that, the Artist is just a sham.

Just like nobody else really knows what we think - what we feel. Unless we choose to admit our truths. To be true to ourselves. Our feelings. Our desires. Our visions.

Sometimes it’s harder than other times. Sometimes we don’t feel inspired.
Sometimes we don’t know how to express that appropriately (visually when
I’m working as an Artist). But without it, Life is Just Work.

I choose to really live the full life - to take advantage of all the time I have -
to do it Now - this very moment.

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i was just telling my Brother that he was going to get his Birthday gift late this year - because I had bought an adorable card that said: “I blame it on brainfreeze - Happy belated birthday”

Then we got to talking - Our Mother used to keep a box of cards - so they’d be available whenever needed. But there was one in the box that never got used - was she waiting for something Real Special? I had thought the card was just the best thing ever. I tried to scribble out what I remembered of it. Got the idea, but the original was even better.

Who could have drawn that card? Who drew the card I currently bought? Who are the unsung heroes who enrich our lives with such wonderful visions?

Thank you all. Thank you world. It’s a good life.

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Tension and Relaxation. The more intensely we experience one,
the more intensely we have to experience the other.
In order to stay balanced and comfortable.

But deciding to stay ‘in the middle’ - neither tense nor relaxed —
that obliterates any connection with life. And you know what that means.

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