I invite you to make a visit to the Technology Engagement Center, 306 Minerva Dr, Murfreesboro, TN. I have a display of miniature paintings, rose studies, landscapes in gouache with free-motion stitching, and children’s portraits. There are wonderful happenings at this library gem.

I thought I’d post this while I still have the right to do so. Maybe I’ll self-publish a book of my drawings and paintings which can be banned by our politicians. The drawing is just a collection of lines and marks and scribbles and scumbles. I think I’ll call it “In The Image Of God.”

After the Shower
Charcoal on Paper
9 x 12
Figurative

Postcards to Reeves and Hagerty. Probably a waste of my money, but I must speak up.

Slaughterhouse47 sheep chainsaw leonscum

Having gleefully demonstrated that they have no heart, republicans are worriedly searching for their balls.

An acquaintance recently decried political posts, flippantly saying that if you’re concerned about people losing their jobs, you should invite them to your house for dinner. She said she couldn’t remember who she voted for. She claims to be a christian, asks god to make her a channel of his peace.

William Holland
Hero—explore his story.
As I imagined his visage, I surrounded him by ghostly images of cemetery stones and bursting milkweed pods.

Amid the political chaos, I will continue to share a little bit of beauty along with my anger and disgust at magats and non-voters that got us in this crisis. Here is a pot of sunflowers on a 1-inch diameter button.

“I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me.”

Think about this when you offer your thoughts and prayers, when you preach from your pulpit.

On January 20, 2025, and every day, let us remember and honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail.”

Portrait of William Holland
Born into slavery
Died a Civil War Hero and land owner
Pastel on paper

January 20 let us remember and celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.”

Frankie Lewis
1871-1947
Charcoal and Pastel

Jan 20, 2025, remember Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I have a dream that one day …one day right down in Alabama little Black boys and Black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today."

Matters
Oil on canvas

Honor January 20, 2025

"I believe it's the person-to-person contact that arouses in our benefactors a sense of compassion and love and care."
---President Jimmy Carter

"Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred."
---Martin Luther King Jr.

My holiday decorating is complete—heat lamps in the chicken manger!

The sun is shining down on a bucket of water outside at the corner of the porch. The reflection is bouncing through the window, off the floor, on the bottom of the chimney mantle, on the ceiling beam, and dancing across the ceiling. Beauty from a bucket of water—I wish you had seen it in real life.