a little personal complaint

When I'm hard at work like this, I get screwy. I find it hard to concentrate. I lose all sense of time and space. People around me all seem to lose their perspective. Why can't they see I'm a hardworking son-of-a-gun? I need elbow room! Well, they aren't going to get to ME! I'm going to forge ahead, damn the torpedoes! Somebody has to take the bull by the horns, or NOTHING will get done!

Oh, it will take sacrifice, I know that. But as God is my Witness, I shall PREVAIL!

"World War Final"

"Hands"

God endowed us with something he gave to no other creature in quite the same way: the ability to creatively manipulate our world and our lives... the propensity to reach out and "touch someone" when we are lonely (or when THEY are)... and the spirit to raise our hands in celebration and praise. Or alarm. Like all His gifts, these Hands are merely tools until taken up and used, when they become either blessed instruments or the opposite. Or perhaps still worse... a waste of time and life.

Picture: Mary Stebbins Taitt

"Communication"

Our world is really marvelous today. Alexander Graham Bell, interested mainly in developing a device to help the deaf, pioneered a field which today stretches worldwide and reaches into every corner of our lives. Think what this means... by satellite we can speak, send text and images, converse with another person in a different language, monitor a heartbeat or ekg on the other side of the globe. And so much more... so much more...

Thank you Al... you did good work!

Photo: Mike Serafin

"The Paper and the Pen"

How powerful these two tools can be: how eloquent, how frustrating to use well! The paintbrush and canvas of the mind... the record of the past, the tumult of the present, the vision for the future...

Photo Credit: http://mechanicrobotic.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/pluma.jpg

Here Come da Sun King

Here's a cool one hot off the presses called Sunset Pic #2

Photo:..................... Gail Slaughter

Enhancement:...............MS