Rigor Vitae: Life Unyielding

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

ANOTHER TIME-LAPSE PAINTING CLIP

Eastern Painted Turtle

Saturday, July 04, 2009

THE MANDATORY FOURTH OF JULY POLITICAL POST

As in much of the country, conservatives are throwing “Tea Parties” here today in protest of what they see as irresponsible spending of federal funds. I'm sympathetic with the basic gist of their gripe and agree that only fools spend their money faster than they earn it (such behavior, of course, is always temporary). I notice though, that the loudest voices are the same ones shouting “drill baby drill,” and can't for the life of me figure how they reconcile their monetary and natural resource policies. However much you love it, the former is the abstract element of the two, and is wholly dependent on the latter. Despite my sympathy with the conservatives' denouncing our living beyond our financial means, I'm still more inclined to protest our using up our real resources faster than they're replenished. At this point it would be appropriate to post a Bald Eagle painting, but I've never painted one. Another big endemic American bird will have to do. Happy Fourth of July!
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illustration: CALIFORNIA CONDOR (2008) acrylic 30" x 20"