I am tired and have got to travel to london to Studio Upstairs and do some art there. Doing it all at home makes Jack a dull boy.

Greetings love and peace to you all, my wonderful brothers and sisters.
As I have stated, I am off to london and I am already tired. So without further ado, I will post photos of my latest art, some taken whilst still wet!



Accompanied as you will see with quotes from those more famous than I. (not that I am at all famous.)

Starting Each Day Anew

I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercise, and one of the best things which I did.  They say that characters were in-graven on the bathing tub of King Tc hing-thang to this effect: "Renew thyself completely each day; do it again, and again, and forever again."  Henry David Thoreau

I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred.  I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Try dying every day to your old self . . . So that you emerge renewed and young again as the tired mind sheds its load . . .  Kristin Zambucka

I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred.  I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.  Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you have the capacity to count, then you have the capacity to pray. If you pray for others then you are counted as a friend of Jesus. Mr Nebblesworth.

                  Each morning we are born again.  What we do today is what matters most.  Buddha
 

                    ...There is no better means of attainment to the spiritual life
                       Than by continually beginning again...  Saint Francis de Sales

                      Finish every day and be done with it.
                     You have done what you could.
                     Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt, crept in.
                     Forget them as soon as you can,
                     tomorrow is a new day;
                     begin it well and serenely,
                     with too high a spirit to be cumbered
                     with your old nonsense.  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Always hold fast to the present.  Every situation, indeed every moment, is of infinite value, for it is the representative of a whole eternity.  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

       

I am grateful for what I am and have.  My thanksgiving is perpetual.  It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence.  My breath is sweet to me.  O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches.  No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.  Henry David Thoreau

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Be content with what you have;
Rejoice in the way things are. 
When you realize there is nothing
lacking,
The whole world belongs to you.  Lao Tzu

There's only one reason why you're not experiencing bliss at this present moment, and it's because you're thinking or focusing on what you don't have....But, right now you have everything you need to be in bliss.  Anthony de Mello

Dorothy tries to sum it all up before leaving Oz.  "It's that if ever I go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own backyard," she tells Glinda, the Good Witch of the North.  "Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with.  Is that it?"
"That's all it is," confirms Glinda.  Joey Green, quoting from Wizard of Oz

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.  William James
   I am in actual fact walking in a mindful state to the station, a few minutes and will have a wonderful day creating art in London. Content in the fact that the majority of you, my brothers and sisters who visit here will be praying for my well being as I do for you now. Blessings and peace to you and all beings. Pass this on with loving intentions in all you do. Your bro Peter. 

Love conquers all!

Waking up this morning, I smile, 24hrs and brand new, are before me and you. I vow to live fully each and every moment and look at all beings with love and compassion. How about you?  

Yep that's how the saying goes. `Love conquers all.`

So my brothers and sisters, I will not tell you that my life is wretched without one special woman in it, to love and share experiences with. I will though share that as I have had a true love who died. Then a second wife who like me wanted children but was not able to see beyond the limitations of my brain injury and preferred to set up home with one of my lodgers. I say in prayer, God almighty, please dont bring me into a relationship with another women unless its the real deal. Love is too sacred a thing to be mixed up with want and needs of a temporary nature.
This world will pass but God is eternal and God is love. We exist if we can only know it, by the grace and love of God.
We are children produced by an incomprehensible powerful force and when we become enlightened we look forward to returning home to dwell in the whole presence and love of God. For now, we have to do what we each must to make our time and journey here as fulfilling as we can. Helping others to realize that they are loved so much, God came down from heaven to earth to be born a Jew and be rejected by his own people and hung upon a cross and killed as a sacrifice for our wrongs. You do not have to choose to believe this, but if you do then its a grace we share which we could not earn by our own works!
So my wonderful visitors, I do not just spend time in prayer, meditation and contemplation of Gods majesty, I do paint for Jesus. This is somewhat from the biblical saying, `However you treat the least of my children, you treat me.` So here for you now and of course especially those of us who can say, "I no longer live, yet not I but Jesus lives in me;" This following work has been painted this morning and photos taken whilst still wet. So until it is dry I will not be sure if it is finished. I pray that you will enjoy this.

    O yes, its to me like these marks above are the foreshadowing of a time to come, where my lover and I will be laying down together!  Yep its like its there in the painting and so we will bide our time till it becomes apparent!

                                                   Here is the rush of life with areas of calm.

 

                      Its just abstract and so any shapes or lines we find uncomfortable, we can use our
                      imagination to change. Dont focus on what your mind doesnt like. Wipe that memory
                      out like its on a big blackboard and you get the rubber and its getting rubbed out!
 

                                                    Just look inside yourself for love and you
                                                    will see it linked to that it attracts from without!
                                                    Just as if you only dwell on that which is lacking
                                                    you will attract more lack. So lets all see we
                                                    have an abundant universe. I may be sitting
                                                    here in the presence of Gods holy spirit alone,
                                                    yet of course this is more than enough for me
                                                    right now. All else which is coming on its way
                                                    to me as I type this, is just a wonderful bonus.  
                                

 

    If you have love you will do all things well.  Thomas Merton

        Although the above shot was taken without conscious deliberation of all it would show. You of course may see differently to what it provokes in me and that diversity we should celebrate.
I do see  though an uncompleted circle with a cross through it. Yet it could be a plus sign! There is both movement and balance in the lines and the calm colours. Have a good day you all an know that you are all in my prayers and are loved.
              Blessings love and peace,
               to you and all beings.
                Your brother Peter.  

Sunday and its sunny. Hoping that you are all one in the love that sees all which is seperate as illusion! If not I shall pray for our connected/collective enlightenment.

Good day my brothers and sisters.

I was blessed yesterday on my visit to Kate Rothwell, the excellent forensic art therapist; not only to come away with an understanding of something I had been hiding from, which I can now embrace, but Kate also gave me a load of paper to bring here and paint on.
I did two paintings for us last night, which I have taken photos of one, to share with you, my blessed ones, here. 
Interspersed you will see, with sayings from Black Elk. A holy man, who came from a holy woman and holy man. We, my brothers and sisters are all holy people, yet some deny this fact by thinking and doing all they can in denial! Its good to pray for all, but dont leave walking in the light of Love, to stumble and fall. Believe me, I have done it and it can be an uphill task getting back again and many we see stay fallen!

 The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.

                                            The Holy Land is everywhere

       

  Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that one.

 Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of the little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

                                                     Behold this day. It is yours to make

 Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his own passions
 My sister Viv will be glad to hear, I have finally conquered this and there is no need for me to hide from the truth any longer. The truth does indeed set us free.

 You have noticed that the truth comes into this world with two faces. One is sad with suffering, and the other laughs; but it is the same face, laughing or weeping. When people are already in despair, maybe the laughing face is better for them; and when they feel too good and are too sure of being safe, maybe the weeping face is better for them to see.

                    All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.


Know that you are loved my brothers and sisters and let this love flow out blessing all.
Your brother Peter. 

Great artists!

THIS IS SATURDAY AND SO IGNORE ANYTHING HERE THAT TELLS YOU THIS WAS PUT OUT ON FRIDAY. WONDERFUL.


Good day to you my brothers and sisters. 
Apparently Picasso said that great artists dont borrow, they steal.   
Unfortunately the artist supply shop here in Luton as well as the police, do not agree. I am due in court on Monday.   Joke, my brothers and sisters, its only a joke. I only steal laughs and glances at some women.
Picasso meant I believe, stealing ideas, techniques and styles.

This was just a little bit of light humour to counterbalance some of the writing in todays main blog which I hope isnt really on the heavy side. Its just that I did grow up as an outsider, after my mother died when I was two and then my father dying when I was sixteen.

Blessings to you and all beings.  Your bro Peter.

Saturday morning started this at 5am..

My wonderful brothers and sisters. 

Blessings love and peace to you and all beings.

Lets without further ado get straight to my art which yesterday and the day before I was exploring the transient nature of life and art. This was maybe on reflection inspired by the brief visit for only a few days of 22,000 visitors from Germany and then yesterday it went back to `2` from Germany and the UK was once again top with 47. Next was Turkey with 30, which is handy as it sort of rhymes.Then in 3rd place, ahead of China, was America with 29. I wont list all the other countries as you know who you are and you must I hope know that I appreciate you visiting my site.

I painted this one directly below as part of a tryptic which once  photographed I then destroyed them.
This was a precursor to a `Peace` below this one where I painted the top half of one wall, took a picture and then asked two of my sisters to scrape it off!
 

 Having took a couple of photos at the art studio I have been going to do work at in London of the concrete floor, which has paint on that wasnt purposefully put there; I have been doing some painting on paper which has used this theme as a starting point. You can see this in these five directly below. 

                                                 

                                                    Here its as if a painter was just wiping the
                                                     the black paint off his/her brush before
                                                      washing it!

                                            There is just too much to mention of all that I like about this one.
                                             I hope that like me, you will be glad I didnt destroy this one!
 

Its now coming up to 5.45am and there is still two hours before My eldest sister comes to drive me to Kate Rothwells studio in her garden where I shall do some work today. All the work I have been doing with Kate, who is a forensic art therapist, has been an intrinsic part of keeping both myself and one or two other people from dying!
The time during the night when I lived in the Philippines and went swimming out to sea not knowing if I would be swimming back or going to far to make it possible, it was the thought of my two sons - one a toddler and the other a baby - which had me swim back. Its as if now one is a teenager and the other soon to be; my grip on life is tenuous!
My late wifes suicide did mess up my life and leave me with a poor short term memory. It enhanced my life though and gave me a passion for life and art which was not there before. My intelligence though if anything is a hindrance, as I am so aware of all the different positive possible outcomes for myself and others, yet feel hampered by others lack of understanding...
I shall do a little bit of both yoga and tai chi now to become centred and accepting of myself and you in the now. Aware of course that you may well not be reading this when I typed it, but you are NOW.
Ha ha, I hope you, most of you are going to seize this day and do all you can to make it a wonderous one for both yourself and others. You are worth the almighty God, descending to earth and dying on the cross, even if you and me were the only two people needing His sacrifice for our misdeeds and to pay the price so we can have eternal life. Thank you Jesus, cos I can now say that I no longer live but Christ lives in me. One particular guy a mile from here does not know - after stealing and conning me out of money in the past years - how lucky he and I are for the fact that the old me is dead! My therapist and thank God, himself does and I am so glad to be a forgiving loving softy now. 
There you go. I thank you for giving your time here today to what I have been sharing. Bless you all. Your new brother, Peter.   
  

Fish on Friday and blessings and love to all beings.

   Good day to you my brothers and sisters

Peace and love to you all. As those of you who have been following me for awhile will know, I often do a blog on a Friday which is more spiritually based and thus called `Fish on Friday` after the common diet for many Christians and also because the fish symbol has been used in places where Christians are liable to suffer persecution. So although this was also partly instigated as my eldest and beloved sister who said that as I am an artist, then my blogs should be mostly art based. I took this point on board, yet had to have an expression of my love for the intelligent creative force many of us call God. It is the force that is omnipotent, omnipresent and all loving.
However, I am going to start now by saying the photos I am about to share with you, are in my own way a unique expression of thanks and gratitude for my whole being as a gift from God and in God and to you. We are all one and can realize the union of one body in Christ and in the trinity of God.      May the Holy spirit be with us 
                now and always.



                  Enjoy                                this                                         is                                                       
for each one of you.
 

      I am my beloved brothers and sisters, not going to - although much tempted - explain some of the thoughts these images provoke in me, as this may prevent quite different ones being expressed within you!

                                        Hang on in there and know you are so loved.
                                               
I may well do an afternoon post, but hang on, just remembered, I have to strip a bedroom of wallpaper as one of my nephews is going to plaster it for my youngest son.  Blessings and love to you and all beings. Please pass this on. Your bro Peter.