Remembering a Christmas Long Ago

I remember hanging stockings on the mantelpiece over the fireplace every Christmas Eve when I was a kid–six of my dad’s big wool hiking socks in a row. We all put something small in each other’s stockings, but Santa always surprised us with the orange in the toe, the Brazil nuts, the filled chocolates, and a special just-for-me gift.

Stockings first before breakfast followed by the Unwrappathon. Sometimes Santa hid gifts like bikes and instead set us a series of clues that kept us treasure hunting from one end of the house to the other.

I did this collage as a reflection from my increasingly more golden years back to a time both long long ago and as near in memory as yesterday.

I’m just a Lollipop of the Gods

Daily Create was to express the concept of being an “outsider” as in “outsider art” as in “art not officially recognized.” I looked this up. “Outsider art” is so cool that it is “a thing” and “officially” recognized, which means anybody can see it’s cool and “officially” put it in a gallery or show. Therefore, it’s really no longer “outside,” is it?

Romeo “denies his stars,” but they get him in the end anyway. Odysseus is a plaything of the gods. The cleverest man in the world can’t get home without their help.

In this image, I am taking a selfie, totally self absorbed as a god annihilates me with no more consequence than if I were a child’s sweet.

This is not about belief or atheism. Neither matters. We are caught in the vast machinery of the earth and stars, and we are of consequence only to ourselves.

Ah, the nihilists! Ah, the existentialists! What have they done for us lately?

cathleennardi:

azure

ocean waves

they are crashing

I hear the mermaid

siren

Loving this! You’re the first one I’ve seen who actually read the pronoun guidelines!

Christmas 2015. There’s Peter putting the angel on the tree. Then a Fauvist vision of the tree, and then a mysteriousnightvision.com drawing I did of it for today’s Daily Create, which asked us to draw and name a tree in our neighborhood. This Tree is definitely in my neighborhood!