I Protest Protests

 The show, now showing in the main gallery at City Arts, 

334 N Mead, Wichita, Ks is call "Seeds of Change: Replanted". It is somewhat political in nature. It mostly illustrates the need for changes within America. I just had the opportunity to visit the show and was pleasantly surprised. The works are excellent with the messages clear. 

I Protest Protests!!

Every time I see or hear of a new protest, I say or think: “I protest protests!” I usually get lots of giggles or snickers from those around me. The truth is, I really don’t like them! Besides being disruptive and destructive, it seems everyone becomes lemmings just following “whoever”. But in actuality, protest is sometimes necessary. When you look through the eyes of world history, protest led to the change of government in France, gave birth to the nation we call home, and is currently at work in the middle east. 

Glimmer of Hope

The show, now showing in the main gallery at City Arts, 334 N Mead, Wichita, Ks is call "Seeds of Change: Replanted". It is somewhat political in nature. It mostly illustrates the need for changes within America. I just had the opportunity to visit the show and was pleasantly surprised. The works are excellent with the messages clear. 

This was one of my entries called "Glimmer of Hope". My point is that we are filled with greed, pleasure seeking and self-centeredness. These personal attitudes affect all decisions we make. We tend to elect leadership who promise to give us everything we want instead of what is good for our     nation as a whole. They lie and promise us everything and we continually fall for it. 

If we as a nation, do not take more personal responsibility, we will lose our rights, including the right to vote. Our wonderful, free nation will be lost. The candle flame is about out, but with the upcoming election, there is still a “spark”  and a “Glimmer of Hope”. 

Happy New Year!!!

December 2011 was quite a month! We traveled to Bartlesville OK to pick up the paintings from the "Artfest" show at Grace Community Church. It was a very good show. I really recommend it for next year. Later in December while painting two pictures for a show at City Arts in Wichita, I began to feel sick. My usual coughing spells got much worse to the point I WAS ROBBED! I was robbed of our family Christmas celebration! I spent all of Christmas Day in bed, asleep. The plan was to go to my number two daughter's home. My wife and everyone else went. I think I had an asthmatic infection rather than the flu. It took a while to get over.  The year and month ended even more sadly with the passing of my wife's mother on December 29th. She was eighty-six and we found out in October she had cancer so it was not unexpected, but she is missed. I did get my paintings done enough to get them into the show at City Arts. They will be shown in the following posts.