by Marty Coleman | Jul 5, 2009 | James Anthony Froude |
See you back tomorrow with a new drawing and quote! Thanks for
indulging me with the vintage napkins while I have been away on
vacation. I hope you have enjoyed seeing the originals as I created
them for my daughters.
I think this is why so many people never change. I know it is why I haven’t
changed nearly as much as I would have liked to over the years. It’s hard
work.
You have to leave your useless and destructive self by the side of
the road without a ride and without a shelter. You can’t go back for him
or her out of pity or loneliness. You have to trudge on without them and
without the comfort and ease they brought to you. You have to go to the
foundry of your soul and sweat and labor until a better fashioned you
emerges. Not an easy thing to do.
That is why most people change only when circumstances throw them into
the foundry through death or pain or a cataclysmic upheaval of some sort.
It’s the trial by fire we all strive to avoid that finally creates in us the character
we want.
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by Marty Coleman | Jul 4, 2009 | USA |
For my friends from outside the USA, you are invited to enjoy a drawing
of our 4th of July fireworks celebrating our independence from Great Britain
in 1776, 233 years ago. For my friends within the USA, take this as me
sitting beside you while you watch the fireworks, wherever you are.
We usually watch the 4th of July fireworks along the banks of the Arkansas
River in Tulsa, Oklahoma. There is a city park that stretches the length of the
river and they shoot the fireworks from a bridge that makes it easy for
everyone to see. I love America.
This year we will be in Boston for the celebration. It is one of the cradles
of our country and we are very excited about being there for the 4th. Along the
Charles River separating Cambridge from Boston we will sit and listen
to the Boston Pops Orchestra play as they have for a zillion years. The
1812 Overture will be played with cannons being let loose from the river and
bells of the churches of Boston ringing along side them. I love America.
Wherever you are, think about not just the issues of America, but the idea of
America. Just as we as individuals have our ideals that we sometimes do not
live up to, so it is with our country. But it doesn’t mean we don’t have the
ideals and it doesn’t mean we are not working towards their fulfillment.
I love America.
I am grateful, very grateful, I had ancestors that seized the moment and made
the US happen. I love America.
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by Marty Coleman | Jul 3, 2009 | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Hope you all are enjoying the summer. I am on vacation and am presenting
some of the original napkin drawings I created for my daughters from
1998-2004 until I get back.
Just get off it as soon as possible is the idea.
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by Marty Coleman | Jul 2, 2009 | Thomas a Kempis |
Day 6 of Vacation – I figure I am in a kayak or hammock now!
Oh, this one is so hard! I succeed at this at a ratio of 1 per 20. that is one
day out of 20 maybe i am at peace with myself. How often are you at peace
with yourself, and how do you go about achieving it?
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by Marty Coleman | Jul 1, 2009 | Jonathan Kozol |
Day 5 of the vacation, I should be sunburnt or something by now!
Wow, how long did it take for me to even partially learn this lesson!
And then I go and forget it and have to learn it all over again.
How about you, have you learned this? When did this lesson come front
and center for you?
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