Is it possible for people of different faiths or no faiths to live in peace with one another? I do. I believe that essentially we are already one, that unity is a reality indiscernible to many, and our work is to make this unity manifest. There have been times and there have been places where a vast diversity of people have lived in peace, respected the others’ right to their own beliefs, and cultivated communication and even community amongst themselves.... Read more
Lisa (my wife), Casile (my daughter) and I went to see Eat Pray Love yesterday. (Right off the bat I would say the movie has to augment the book. The movie by itself, I surmise, wouldn’t do as well. Read the book first.) I cried right from the start! This happens once in a while. I recognize, even while it is happening, that there is something much deeper going on than me being emotionally touched by a chick flick. Same... Read more
Click on the image for a larger picture. Lisa (my wife) and Casile (my daughter) and I went to see Eat Pray Love yesterday. I cried all the way through it. It broke something in me. I plan on writing about it today and you can read about it later. Essentially, I realized that the decisions I’ve made recently have had a more profoundly traumatic affect on me than I’ve pretended. buy this cartoon as well as my others/ art/... Read more
There’s something kind of zen about watching yourself watching yourself watching yourself. But, as I’ve discovered, it can also become a personal nightmare. Inception gone mad! What’s a life lived vicariously? Empty and meaningless. Eugene Peterson once wrote that if you have a tv, you should slowly dismantle it with a sledgehammer. I wasn’t that drastic, but I don’t watch tv. I don’t even have cable. It’s nothing religious. I just want to live my life more directly and tv... Read more
Click on the image for a larger picture! This is pen and graphite on Strathmore coldpress paper, measuring 8″x10″ (20cm x 25cm). I’m calling her Sophia. The promise is that, if you so will, nothing shall move you. You will take your stand. And you will keep your stand. ‘Til death. You can buy a fine art print of this cartoon here (free shipping!) art / tees Talk with me. Please join my newsletter. I’m going to give away a... Read more
So here are a few notes I’d like to bring to your attention: 1. Becky Garrison’s new book is out, Jesus Died For This?. I enjoyed reading it. Garrison is a satirist who is willing to take on anybody, and she does it with style and grace. Her sense of humor, that has gotten her in trouble more than once, certainly shines through the pages. It is a kind of autobiographical journal of her search for Jesus… where she doesn’t... Read more
Silly generalizations, I know. However, that’s what cartoons, satire, comics, comedy and humor are made of. I know these are generalizations because, although I find myself in the Christian tradition, I have shared all of these ideas of suffering. Our preconceived ideas of suffering are often ways of coping with it. Our minds crave that our experience makes sense. It demands that it has meaning, some purpose. It reminds me of the story of Job who insisted, much to his... Read more
I am pleased to announce the Freebie Friday winner. It is Jan Scholl in Flushing Michigan. Her print of choice is “Not By Might”: Click on the image for a larger picture. Let’s talk. buy my cartoons, art, tees Please join my newsletter so that you can enter my contests, get my cartoons, and other benefits. Read more
There are times when there is absolute silence. The heavens are as brass. Our ears are deaf. We can never truly discern which one it is. If the Spirit is silent, all we can do is ride it out like a test. In any case, the best thing to do is to become self-aware. Do an interior examine of your mind. How have you shut down yourself? Has something within you died? Let’s talk. My fine art prints of cartoons.... Read more
This is my submission to this week’s Illustration Friday contest, themed “star gazing”. This is exactly what Lisa and I and our little terry-poo Abby were doing, watching stars and the meteor shower. It measures 4″x6″ (10cm x 15cm), and is watercolor and ink on Strathmore cp watercolor paper. If you want it, click here. Click on the image for a larger picture. I’m announcing yesterday’s freebie friday contest winner later today. Buy fine art prints of my cartoons. Buy... Read more
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