Drawing #90, The Tissue Out of Which Our Life is Constructed, June 6, 2012
The truth of life is what our heart loves and sees, what goes on behind the scenes that we only catch glimpses of when we look through our heart - "Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right" and the world that we use our eyes to see, is not really what is important.
Drawing #92, An Inch of Tape, June 8, 2012
There are 4 people who share the same arms - including a baby, mother and children - above them is a magician reading their future. The Holy Spirit is present.
Drawing #93, Butterfly Crying, June 10, 2012
Why is the Butterfly Crying? She transformed, but the world she was born into had not.
Drawing #94, Baby Raccoon, June 11, 2012
Baby Raccoon - this morning there was a baby raccoon crying outside my window. He was stuck on the roof of the shop and woke me up at 5am - I went outside and tried to give him a piece of wood to climb down on. I worried that his mom had been hit by a car as I live near a freeway. I tried everything I could to help this kid out - and then I prayed for him - when I got up later my neighbor said he saw a big fat mama with 2 babies - I guess God protects animals too - I pray for animals - like the cows in the feed lots - all the time. No creature should suffer at the hands of our destruction. Animals are innocent. In this picture 3 woman are building a cross - one clings to it, one lifts it above her head and one does a cartwheel under it. There is a baby raccoon in the lower right corner. It is the only entity in color in the picture.
Drawing #96, New Beginnings, June 14, 2012
The Adult Self loves the child self, cradles him in her arms - looks deep into his eyes, and she is pregnant with a new idea but she won't abandon her self or her other persuits, she will learn balance. She has 2 angels protecting her in this experience.
Drawing #98, Women are Smarter, June 16, 2012
This is about the Left Brain thinking submitting to the Right Brain - A new beginning, yet they love each other and could not survive without each other. But here, the Female side is in charge - the meditative, wholistic, community-thinking, other-centered, cooperative view with access to God leads the person, and the calculating, self-centered, masculine, planner and detailer comes second - the plan and the journey is intuitive and the details get put in later - the part of the self that makes the plans thinks of the consequences of the plans and how they will affect all life and the ego serves the Spirit... it is a new way of looking at life - symbolized by the New Moon.
Drawing #99: June 17, 2012 Nick from the Ukraine, 8 x 10 Ball Point Pen on Paper.
Nick from the Ukraine - Nick is in our spiritual family. He posted on our message board that he wanted to come to the US for our conference in July but has no money to do so... "I have not money for flying and living in hotel during the conference. So my question/request:
"Can you help me with paying for flying and ask somebody from Copper Mountain, Colorado to take me for living during conference?" It will be cool if you will help me, it will be ok if you can not help me) Any way I wish to have a recording of conference!) I will wait for your answer) Hug you) Your Nick G) ... So, i started writing to Nick & I suggested maybe it would be easier to get him to Ireland - it costs around $1800 RT to get to Colorado from Kiev and around $650 RT to go get to Dublin from Kiev. FOTS Ireland is August 18, 2012 with Mike L., Indianapolis, IN. Here's a little more on Nick's story: In Ukraine our spiritual fellowship is more than 20 years, but there was no structure. Only 5-6 years ago one guy, Oleg, found our spiritual fellowship in USA and come back to Ukraine. He bring Program in Ukraine. His sponsor is Scott L. Oleg bring Scott L, Bob D, Don M, Tom I in Ukraine. We have some meeting all over the country, they call them self our spiritual fellowship, but they just therapy meetings. I know couple real spiritual group, they making 5 Tradition. But I live in the city where very thick meeting. I heard about Fellowship which Scott L, Bob D, Don M, Tom I. I describe it is cool, it helps me many time in my sobriety, just when you know that there are many people like me. As for me, I am real alcoholic, I am that kind of chronic alcoholics who needs God to be sober. So I try to be useful for our Fellowship. I almost translated "The Fellowship of the Spirit - 2001" with Dave F and Mark H. It was Mark who inspire me to send letters in USA. He said: "Problem is not in receiving, problem in asking". So I start to go through my fear, because you must understand what mean to ask somebody that you do not know for help. So I make my side of the street, I ask. Now it is God turn to help or not. I feel this is the extension of Don P’s work to carry the message to Russia – we have an opportunity here. If you want to help Nick please make checks/money orders payable to...As it turned out - someone put up the money and many others contributed - some of us wrote letters to the embassy and we got Nick and expedited visa. We purchased his tickets and he will be here from July 14 - August 15, 2012.
"Can you help me with paying for flying and ask somebody from Copper Mountain, Colorado to take me for living during conference?" It will be cool if you will help me, it will be ok if you can not help me) Any way I wish to have a recording of conference!) I will wait for your answer) Hug you) Your Nick G) ... So, i started writing to Nick & I suggested maybe it would be easier to get him to Ireland - it costs around $1800 RT to get to Colorado from Kiev and around $650 RT to go get to Dublin from Kiev. FOTS Ireland is August 18, 2012 with Mike L., Indianapolis, IN. Here's a little more on Nick's story: In Ukraine our spiritual fellowship is more than 20 years, but there was no structure. Only 5-6 years ago one guy, Oleg, found our spiritual fellowship in USA and come back to Ukraine. He bring Program in Ukraine. His sponsor is Scott L. Oleg bring Scott L, Bob D, Don M, Tom I in Ukraine. We have some meeting all over the country, they call them self our spiritual fellowship, but they just therapy meetings. I know couple real spiritual group, they making 5 Tradition. But I live in the city where very thick meeting. I heard about Fellowship which Scott L, Bob D, Don M, Tom I. I describe it is cool, it helps me many time in my sobriety, just when you know that there are many people like me. As for me, I am real alcoholic, I am that kind of chronic alcoholics who needs God to be sober. So I try to be useful for our Fellowship. I almost translated "The Fellowship of the Spirit - 2001" with Dave F and Mark H. It was Mark who inspire me to send letters in USA. He said: "Problem is not in receiving, problem in asking". So I start to go through my fear, because you must understand what mean to ask somebody that you do not know for help. So I make my side of the street, I ask. Now it is God turn to help or not. I feel this is the extension of Don P’s work to carry the message to Russia – we have an opportunity here. If you want to help Nick please make checks/money orders payable to...As it turned out - someone put up the money and many others contributed - some of us wrote letters to the embassy and we got Nick and expedited visa. We purchased his tickets and he will be here from July 14 - August 15, 2012.
Drawing #100: Juneteenth: June 19, 2012
Juneteenth marks the day on which slaves in Texas first learned that slavery had been abolished. Celebrated on Welton & 25th Denver
Drawing #101, Jazz, June 19, 2012
I just saw a woman playing the stand up base and a guy playing sax - then I colored them in.
Drawing #102: The Help, June 22, 2012
I was raised by a woman my mom hired to be our housekeeper - my mother - an Oakland public school teacher hired Johnnie Mae to help raise me.
My mother was working too hard to give me the attention a child needs so she left me with Johnnie Mae. Joh had no children of her own. She and LK lived in Berkeley having left Okolona, Arkansas, where Joh was raised picking cotton.
Johnnie Mae sent me off to school with my fine blond hair braided and ponytailed all over my head like a little black girl. I got my ass kicked over and over.
Mom took me out of public school and put me in private- where the diversity ratio was equal and I could fit in - I grew up in diversity. Now I live in Denver the most conservative rascist city I have ever lived in - surrounded by white people.
Johnnie Mae taught me the funky chicken and how to dance to Parliment Funkadelic... she taught me how to pray to Jesus.
She used to wash my hair and scratched my scalp with her long red fingernails. She'd take me home to her house and feed me collard greens and black eyed peas, and I would fall asleep on her plastic covered couch.
My mother was working too hard to give me the attention a child needs so she left me with Johnnie Mae. Joh had no children of her own. She and LK lived in Berkeley having left Okolona, Arkansas, where Joh was raised picking cotton.
Johnnie Mae sent me off to school with my fine blond hair braided and ponytailed all over my head like a little black girl. I got my ass kicked over and over.
Mom took me out of public school and put me in private- where the diversity ratio was equal and I could fit in - I grew up in diversity. Now I live in Denver the most conservative rascist city I have ever lived in - surrounded by white people.
Johnnie Mae taught me the funky chicken and how to dance to Parliment Funkadelic... she taught me how to pray to Jesus.
She used to wash my hair and scratched my scalp with her long red fingernails. She'd take me home to her house and feed me collard greens and black eyed peas, and I would fall asleep on her plastic covered couch.
Drawing #103: Mother & Child, Prayed Over, Angel: June 25, 2012
Officer Celena Hollis (black) killed by Rollen Oliver (white gang member) City Park Jazz Festival
Drawing #104, Injured In Battle, June 26, 2012
I am in the battle - it's spiritual warfare - like no other - today I really got hurt - I was talking to someone who claimed to be a spiritual leader - I was talking to him about helping his community create sustainable jobs and sustainable food supply and he wanted to tell me that a network marketing company was going to buy me back my time. It just blew me away - like a shot gun - he just blasted my heart wide open - it ate me alive cuz this cat has access to people - lots of people who depend on him and trust him and he actually believes that wholesaling telecommunication products for enormous conglomerates owned by the secret government is better for his community than a democratically run worker owned grocery that would supply healthy food and create demand for farmers both urban and rural - I got done talking to him and I just said to God - take us - kill us off and we'll start over and maybe this time we'll do things differently... I am sorry God - I am sorry it took me so long to wake up - so there I am - the angels are going to sew up my leg 0 the one on the right has the compassion and the one on the left has the needle and thread - both are needed -and behind her is the dragon - the reptillian force that is blocking the light - the thing about it is though that it's an illustion - it looks bigger and stronger but all I have to do is ask Jesus to stand between me and it and it just disappears - the problem comes when I have a belief that someone is on our side, when they are not - that's when I get injured in the battle. I can be so naive
Drawing #105: Angel, Anteater, World Weary Traveler: June 27, 2012 8 x 10,
Ball Point Pen & Tempera on Paper.
Waldo Canyon Fire 32,000 evacuated.... Cop Shot in City Park ....
Here, the World Weary travler pauses to wipe her brow and she uses the rejuvinating hand of the angel - the Anteater symbolizes lethargy, curiosity and nosiness - so what does this mean ? As a result of her curiosity and innocence and a certain niavte and also a certain innocense and belief in people the traveler has her heart handed back to her in pieces a lot - in this case - it's regarding her most recent excursion believing that holy people in the community are all serving the same master - only to discover that they too have lost their way. Once again the traveler is shocked by her discovery and this shock leads to amazing spiritual exhaustion. Curiosity killed the cat. It's a risk you have to take - none of us get out of this deal alive.
Here, the World Weary travler pauses to wipe her brow and she uses the rejuvinating hand of the angel - the Anteater symbolizes lethargy, curiosity and nosiness - so what does this mean ? As a result of her curiosity and innocence and a certain niavte and also a certain innocense and belief in people the traveler has her heart handed back to her in pieces a lot - in this case - it's regarding her most recent excursion believing that holy people in the community are all serving the same master - only to discover that they too have lost their way. Once again the traveler is shocked by her discovery and this shock leads to amazing spiritual exhaustion. Curiosity killed the cat. It's a risk you have to take - none of us get out of this deal alive.