There are so many people without a pastor. Maybe millions. They have no one they can talk with about their spiritual journeys. They have no one skillful enough to trust with their very serious, complex and deeply disturbing questions. They have no one they would dare bare their deepest selves to. They have no one who will validate their own unique pilgrimage and provide hope in the outcome of their search, no matter where it leads them. Not that everyone... Read more
I don’t know how many times I’ve been admonished for biting the hand that feeds me. But I know when I’m being fed a sedative. I bit. I paid. But I’m still awake! You can buy a fine art print of this cartoon HERE. Read more
This watercolor that I completed today was commissioned by someone who loved the Freebie Friday version of it. He asked if I could do one similar for him as a gift for his wife. So here it is: I call it “Enduring Moon“. It is a watercolor on Arches 300 lb. coldpress acid-free cotton rag paper, measuring 5″x7” (12cm x 18cm). I’ve been meditating all day on the fact that my beliefs are not the same as the object of... Read more
The people asked Moses to meet with God in their stead. It was just too terrifying for them. From Genesis to the Revelation there are stories of those who met with something or someone Other, and their immediate response was to fall down as if dead. We’ve learned our lesson. Thinking we are doing people a favor, we have made it impossible for people to have direct experience with Otherness. Pretending we have provided a method of approach, we have... Read more
I’m pleased to announce yesterday’s FREEBIE FRIDAY winner: Barbara James of San Antonio, Texas. Congratulations Barb! The darling little charcoal drawing will be shipped out to you on Monday. I drew this one last night. This young woman continues on her journey towards her own liberation: It’s graphite pencil, pen & ink and colored pencil on Arches 300 lb. coldpress cotton rag, measuring 2.5″x3.5″ (ACEO). You can buy the original here or here. I’m calling her Sophia. Read more
Nearly every day someone challenges me with the question, “What do you believe?” This isn’t important. Nearly every day someone informs me that they can no longer follow me or read my blog because I offend them. Even yesterday, someone close to me told me to stop blogging and drawing such offensive material. I said I couldn’t use that as a criteria or I couldn’t write or cartoon at all. This person informed me that they will no longer be... Read more
There is beauty. Will you clear away the rubble, which we ourselves often create, to see things purely, simply, directly? Can we perceive raw beauty unadorned with the accretions of our fantasies? I want to give you something… an original miniature drawing of mine based on a larger work. This is drawn on Arches 300 lb cold-press acid-free cotton rag paper, 2″x2″ (5cm x 5cm). I call it “Charcoal Moon”: All you have to do to enter the contest is:... Read more
The French philosopher Michel Foucault (1926-1984) argued that there are three ways to control people: hierarchical observation normalization the examination That is, there are those in power who observe people. Foucault believed that simple observation was enough to control people. Take the security camera: just its presence alone is intended to maintain control. Normalization is simply having a standard of behavior and expectations. This is expressed and disseminated explicitly or implicitly. Finally, the examination is the effective combination of #1... Read more
You can buy an affordable fine art print of this cartoon HERE. You can buy my fine art HERE. Read more
Every once in a while I like to post one of my paintings just to show you that I have a sensitive side that isn’t always wrestling with ideas: This is a watercolor I did on Arches coldpress acid-free 140 lb. cotton rag, measuring 20″x30″ (51cm x 76cm). Excuse the bit of blur from the flash in the center which I tried to Photoshop out. It is framed and hangs in my home. It is a winter’s night with a... Read more
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