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Life is a Story

by netGALAXY Studios | Mar 4, 2019 | CSA Advocacy, Motivational, Uncategorized, World View | 0 Comments

Lifting the Veil I had an epiphany last night. I’ve been thinking about our stories, how they bind us and free us at the same time. Honestly, if we are not in the midst of a chapter or chapters of our own story, then we are asleep. All stories require conflict,...

Our Human Tribe

by netGALAXY Studios | Feb 5, 2019 | Motivational, Random Favorites, World View | 0 Comments

Only by embracing our differences, uniting around our common diversity, can we break the cycle of oppression.

Fake is the new True

by netGALAXY Studios | Jan 24, 2019 | Motivational, World View | 0 Comments

Is it too much to hope that someday we can find our way back to news being news, not fake or true, but credible or not credible?

The Evolution of a Race Awareness

by netGALAXY Studios | Jan 20, 2019 | Motivational, World View | 0 Comments

Gerald Malloy Testifies As Dylan Roof Looks Away I think there is much confusion around the question of race. Without trying to rewrite the dictionary, I have arranged a simple hierarchical progression of race terminology, evolving from the primitive to the more...

New Years Revolution

by netGALAXY Studios | Dec 31, 2018 | Fine Art, Motivational, Uncategorized, World View | 2 Comments

Equestrian Head Study As we cross over into the future tonight, to what ever extent, in whatever way we can, let's go from being a watcher to a doer. It’s so easy to accept being a cog in the consumer machine, part of the elaborate ecosystem of what’s expected. We...

Capture the Rapture

by netGALAXY Studios | Dec 27, 2018 | Motivational, World View | 0 Comments

Dove Abovehttps://maniscalcogallery.com/product/dove-above/ I am a Christian and an American. Whether or not you believe in the rapture of the church (a word never used in the Bible) it is wholly (not holy) inappropriate for a high ranking government official to...

This Christmas

by netGALAXY Studios | Dec 24, 2018 | Motivational, World View | 0 Comments

Hallowed As I listen to the Christmas carols and enjoy the lights and decorations and the smells of the season I reflect upon Christmases gone by. Everything changes when your parents die. The world is filled with people finding ways to survive the good tidings...

Student Work Inspires Me

by netGALAXY Studios | Nov 30, 2018 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture, Uncategorized, World View | 0 Comments

As I wrap up another semester at Charleston Southern University, I am so impressed with what I have learned about the process from my students. I often say, if you want to learn how to sell, try teaching art to college students as an elective. But I think once they...

When Will it End?

by netGALAXY Studios | Nov 29, 2018 | CSA Advocacy, Motivational, Uncategorized, World View | 0 Comments

This morning, I found out about an incident of CSA, which took place at a church just down the street from us. We had even attended as a family a few times. Everyone was warm and welcoming. She was a nurse, taking my blood pressure and checking my temperature. She...

Marketing: Money vs People

by netGALAXY Studios | Nov 23, 2018 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, World View | 0 Comments

I love being an artist. I've always considered it a privilege. In recent years, however, it has also become a luxury. In fact it has become a vanity. It used to be that vanity galleries, founded by the super rich as tax shelters, were all the rage. Now, the...

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