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Left Behind

by | Oct 6, 2020 | Motivational, Random Favorites, World View

What the American Dream Has Left Behind (a rant) Here’s the VLOG version. Or you may read the BLOG version below. (edited for clarity) What people would have us call the “extreme left” is really what many are now calling the extreme middle way. Even...

mARTtyrs

by | Sep 26, 2020 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, World View

People are Starved for Meaning Like the Fishfly, which are born to be consumed by fish, artists are born to be consumed by humanity. I’m talking about being consumed as in nurturing the consumer. Artists provide meaning to actual people, not some idea of people...

Freedom from Consequences

by | Sep 9, 2020 | Motivational, World View

Pleasure vs. Enjoyment Though we often confuse these two distinct emotional states, there is a huge difference and relationship between them. Pleasure, a source of arousal, is the product of the human desire for love, power and money, which all too often seem to be...

The N Word

by | Sep 7, 2020 | World View

This horrific photo, taken in the 1940s, reminds me of when I was nine or ten, my neighbor friend used to yell the n word at the shopping news delivery man from his porch in our suburban Detroit neighborhood. I tried to get my friend to stop his taunting but he...

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