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Your Writing System
If you know me, there is a running theme that fascinates me, those who are so talented, they pursue two passions very successfully. Many have heard me write about Tony Bennett, but today I would like to share another person who was instrumental in my writing and painting. He is a man I’ve never met, his name is Richard Skelton, known to the world as Red. In his lifetime, he wrote 8,000 songs, 64 symphonies, 4,000 short stories, as well as multiple books. He was an artist as well as a writer, earning roughly 2.5 million a year from his lithographs. At the time of his death, his paintings were…
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Memorial Day 2022
I see them in my mind’s eye, soldiers of every era of our country’s history. Warriors some with barely any uniform at all armed with muskets, others in every color of uniform from the sections of our history. Soldiers, whether born here, or those who’s hearts brought them here. Americans of every ethnicity and background came together because they believed in the idea of freedom. We honor all of our soldiers, both the names we know, and those unknown to us, yet never unknown to God. In every generation, there have been noble hearts who have stood to keep us free. Americans do not celebrate merely a weekend, a barbecue,…
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iPainting Happy Birthday Yellowstone
Happy 150th Birthday to Yellowstone National Park!!!!
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Sketch T R Smiling
I love Teddy Roosevelt, and this digital sketch was taken from a photo that reminded me of one of my favorite Teddy Roosevelt stories. Of course he preferred to be called The Colonel, which is so Teddy Roosevelt. He was making a speech, and someone shot him, the bullet hit his eyeglass case and then the speech before hitting him. As blood seeped from his chest he completed the speech. Teddy had enough medical knowledge to know if he wasn’t coughing up blood, it had not hit his lung, so he continued. After the speech, he accepted medical attention. The doctors determined it was more dangerous to remove than to…
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Sketch Danny Thomas
I have always loved comedy, and comedians, but I admire Danny Thomas both for this, and a far bigger reason. We know it as St. Jude Hospital, a hospital he built to keep a promise, and that has helped I don’t know how many people. His daughter, the actress Margo Thomas has continued his legacy. He sent her a gift once, I think it was during her first play. It was a box that flowers come in, and I think he sent roses too, but in it was a set of horse blinders. These are what they put on a horse in a race to keep them from being distracted…
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Sketch Oswald The Lucky Rabbit And Walt
The above sketch is a wonderful reminder that when things don’t work out the way you want, that’s not always a bad thing. Oswald The Lucky Rabbit was a character a young Walt Disney created in 1927 for Universal Pictures. Through a series of issues, Walt lost the rights to the character which led him to create another character, his name was Mickey Mouse. Had Walt never lost Oswald, Mickey would never have come along, and perhaps the Disney Empire would have at least looked very different. All my life I’ve heard it all started with a mouse, and while that’s true in many ways, there’s a rabbit hole involved.…
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January 3 – On This Date
On this date, Washington won the Battle Of Princeton, construction began on the Brooklyn Bridge, and Apple Computers is incorporated. Each event overcame obstacles to accomplish something incredible. A battle, a bridge, and new opportunities, what a wonderful way to begin a work week.
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iPainting Armstrong And Crosby
For the day before New Year’s Eve, I thought this iPainting of two of my favorites was appropriate. It’s Mr. Louis Armstrong and Mr. Bing Crosby, taken from the film Now You Has Jazz from 1956.
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Stephens Day Boxing Day
Today is called Stephen’s Day in some parts of the world, Boxing Day in others. Traditionally it’s the day when people remember the first Christian Martyr Stephen. In England it was a time for people to box up some of their Christmas bounty to share with the less fortunate. In Christ both ideas marry perfectly. Jesus came to give us something we could not attain to, and opened up possibilities we could never imagine. Stephen’s Day not only follows Christmas, Stephen followed Christ’s footsteps to give his life for what he believed. I’m so doing his life impacted thousands, including the man who would become the Apostle Paul. I did…
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Sketch Young Sinatra
Thought this sketch of a young Frank Sinatra was appropriate on his birthday.
