Losing Our Marbles

Tootles, a character in the movie, 

"Peter Pan," lost his marbles. They

were his memories, his ability to 

remember and a variety of mental

skills. He was old and he had lost his 

mind. The fantasy was he finally 

found his marbles.   

It is a metaphor for what happens as

we get older, and scientists say that

it is written in our DNA, though some

lose more of their marbles than others.

The truth is that our brains are like 

muscles and they need a workout

every day.

Yet like the many different colors in

my three folk art paintings, we may

invision the same marbles in different

ways. We know that we can all keep

our marbles much longer if we stay

healthy and exercise of brains.

The scientific journals report on 

advances and one day in the future

we won't lose any of our marbles.

As for me I have great compassion

for all of those who are slowly losing

their minds. One day we may be 

those people who are like Tootles,

but they may never find their marbles.         

Inside of Us

Inside of us there are many things

and we think in words or pictures;

some are black and white but many

are beautiful coors and some are very

shiny to attract on attention. Our

imaginations embrace words and

pictures and create very new things.

Inside us us there may be scars and 

pain caused by abusive people so often.

Inside of us is the face of our first love

who captured our hearts and somtimes

broke them. Inside of us is what we 

believe in and the actions we take

because of them.

Inside us us are words, thoughts

pictures and faces of enemies, 

friends and loved ones. The question

is which one of them will get our

attention and fill our lives with pain,

anger or happiness and love. Inside

of each of us is our need for love and

acceptance.

              

 

Cat's

Imaginations

And

Dreams

My cat Malok is very smart and

she learns things O so quickly.

I goes beyond our daily rituals. 

She figures things out and tries

out new things on me which

usually work toward her benefit.

Well if she can do that it shows

me she has an imagination and

some days I think she is 

imagining about be a very big cat

like a ferocious tiger, yet she is

usually very kind and gentle.

I believe my cat Malok has dreams

just like human beings. If she

could speak she might tell me

all about her dreams about being

a bid ferocious tiger. Before you

doubt what I think, take time to

answer "What do you dream about?"  

   

 

Playing At Any Age

When I was a child I learned how to

play and to have fun every day. But

then I grew up and learned about

hard work and for too many years

there was no time to play. But finally

I learned that my inner child needs

to play.

I learned that while playing my mind

finds the freedom to answer questions

and come up with solutions to so many

problems. I also learned that playing

gives us new energy to do things and

fills us with new hope and joy for all

of our days.

I learned that I don't always have to

take life so seriously. I learned that

it was okay to play and laugh and

YES relax. Such an important 

lesson that doesn't need seriousness

but should be taken seriously.    

  

  

 

Colorful Complex People

I originally got the idea for this painting from a

novel I was writing about people whose senses

were represented by colors and they could use

them to have a lot of ways to connect deeper into

the world arround them. They experienced more

than us is so many ways through O so many senses.

But then I learned something new about us. We are

complex beings and filled with so many treasures.

We call them many things, talents, skills, and abilities,

intelligences, gifts, and O so much potential. Yet we

have only begun to explore all of those things that 

each of us has. But that is the true joy of our

journeys.

The colors of the people in my folk art painting

represent so many things about us, and we have 

just begun to explore all of our gifts and our 

wonderful potential. But first we must let go

of the many ways we limit ourselves and then

begin our colorful and wonderful journeys.   

      

 

What IF?

What if one day the way we practice

medicine changes, and instead of

cutting bodies in surgery or killing

cancer cells with radiation therapy

doctors communicate with our DNA 

and then our body heals any given

part of our its self.

Our bodies know change organs

that have failed; can give us new 

hearts, lungs and livers. Our bodies

can make our cells right again and

correct the cells that are  not

functioning properly. Science is

getting closer, already can use stem 

cells to cure cancer and other things.

One day soon people will look at how

our doctors practice medicine and say

that it is very primitive.