Author: Tim

• Alienation: your own wishes oppress you if they don’t become actions.

• Schizophrenia: when my performance-oriented self reads my faith as an accomplishment worth zero.

• Gentlemen:  you might think your bed is attractive and perfectly functional, but new forms of bedclothes are yet to be invented, by women.

• Sketchbook: Children gone. November 2013.

  

• Normal is the one thing I never wanted to be.

• Einstein’s “God” was interested in an elegant cosmos but not in people – oddly, just like Einstein.

• Sketchbook: Apple On the Bough

  

• Sketchbook: Amish Apple, 14 September 2013

  

• Sketchbook: Protect the Young

  

  The Farm at Walnut Creek, Ohio is a working Amish farm with a collection of animals to attract the tourist trade. On my wife’s birthday we fed zebras, yaks, llamas, and giraffes.  These guys were comfortable and hardly stirred as we drove next to them. They may as well have been Disney employees in costume.…

• As If For The First Time

  I’ve wanted to name the connection between drawing and composing poetry. Drawing is a mode of seeing.  We don’t see, then draw; we don’t draw what we see; we see by drawing.   And we see, truly, only what we love.   So as we draw we fall in love with what we are seeing,…