Balancing Effort & Ease

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence.  Dalai Lama

Summer Solstice

Midsummer, and the long sun's big and free.  Every chattering color stretches with impossible detail.  Another squinting, endless day under the cloudless blue.

Connections & Perceptions

I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree
--Leonard Cohen

Challis & Roos -- Skins & Cases!

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Here's To Spring!

Let The Music Play

Driving through Joshua Tree recently, listening to Gram:

Let my guitar-playing friend do my request
Sing me back home with a song I used to hear
Make my old memories come alive
Take me away and turn back the years
-Gram Parsons

Sweet, Comic Valentine, You're My Favorite Work Of Art

Right Hand Side of the Water, Left Hand Side of the Road

And up on Abbey Road, zebra-crossing tourists in groups of four...

Pretty Poison

Brand new design.  A little Halloween fun...

Mushrooms, Leaves, and bits of Autumn

Early Collaboration

The author had at this point lost track of the comings and goings of “the character” and decided to name him so as to better remember the identity of this thought on the wind.

“Call him “Thought On The Wind,”” someone shouted to the Man With The Pen.

“No, it’s too long.  Can you see me writing “Thought On The Wind” every time I want to refer to him?  Besides, where is the cachet?”

“Call him T. O. T. W.”

“Don’t be ridiculous, how would anyone know how to pronounce it?  Tot-Wuh?  No, no… it won’t do.”

Well, maybe Totwind?”

“Tot Wind.  Yes, I believe that’ll do it.  Very good.  You may go back to your lair.”

“Yes, sire, only too glad to be of porpoise.  Uh, um, I mean service.”

And so, blowing unafraid (for after all Tot Wind was a thought, and how can you hurt a thought?) through the primeval smog, Tot Wind easily avoided the grasping Lamosaurus.

(from a very early Challis & Roos collaborative art piece)

Fresh...

Turning On The Television

The mind is a television

with thousands of channels.

I choose a world that is tranquil and calm

so that my joy will always be fresh

Thich Nhat Hanh