Thursday, November 20, 2008

add to the list


It's a habit now.
And not a good one.
I rush through everything. Even if I don't need to.
When did life become a race?
I realize the faster I go, the more I miss.

I've had harbor seals play with my kayak.
People who zip by on their jetski's won't experience that.
I know this.
Yet still I rush.
Perhaps it is the detritus of parenthood. Too much to do all the time.
Perhaps it is striving for too much. Wanting it all, the disease of an affluent society.

Stopping.
If just for two or five minutes.
Without aids, such as TV, or the weekend beer.
Doing nothing. Maybe breathing.
Deliberate awareness of time.

Sounds like a good thing to fit in to my already full life.

Lao Tzu admonishes:
"Do enough, without vieing,
Be living, not dying.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

recession proof


"The feast of life is before us, the only question is what appetite we have for it."

Lin Yutang

Thursday, November 13, 2008

a few of my favorite things

Some of the illustrators who inspire me.
Munro Leaf
W. Heath Robinson
Lisbeth Zwerger
Gennady Spirin
Chris Wormell
Carl Larsson
Gary Kelley
Ivan Bilibin
Andre Francois
William Nicholson
Ronald Searle

Simply the best.

Sunday, November 9, 2008

claustrophobia


An ultimately rejected concept, but a nice sketch nonetheless. I wanted a feeling of insular narrow mindedness. (We could call it Palinbourg.)