I have moved on from the type, and have stepped into the world of cute characters, usually with a think black outline, which is paying of…
I have moved on from the type, and have stepped into the world of cute characters, usually with a think black outline, which is paying off. Check the latest little alien (named UV) here> http://www.redbubble.com/people/diesellaws/clothing/1463623-4-uv-spare-me-the-pain What a great resource RB is – fantastic!
This seemed a good day to write about God. / God as I know him and as I don’t. The other day I entered a challenge of goddesses. No…
This seemed a good day to write about God. / God as I know him and as I don’t. The other day I entered a challenge of goddesses. Not that anyone has ever called me a goddess. / No. I was wired at birth, and also plugged in. / But the goddess module went missing and it was never found. It was soon apparent that in its place was the alien module. / I spoke to them and flew with them over our world and others. Surely my father, a N.A.C.A./N.A.S.A. scientist, had agreed / for an alien seed to be planted in my mother. She always said / I was the only one planned(ted) of the four. You see(d)? / Our trip out West, including to Roswell, was to the place / of my (in)seminal birth. Enough about my childhood as human-alien! What about dueling goddesses and God? So I wondered, just for a few seconds (that I might just as easily / have forgotten), is it appropriate for me to enter a goddess / challenge? ...Being a Christian. Being an alien, I thought, why not! And here’s my reasoning; because I’d best get to the point, / before the ethernet routes you around my world to the next. For some, a goddess is real, felt, shared, deep inside the conscious; / more than a symbol. I was a serious student of science and math. / My work in application programming is intensely logical. We probably create our own world within a pre-existing one. / I do believe in absolute Truths, however. / Absolute truths might be true for only a brief period in universal time, or / true in one world for one period of time, but relative to the next, longer or shorter. / The differential exists, because time is a relative measure. What is the truth about God? Did Christ help God create “our” world, as I believe; / or was a god or goddess appointed for this or that? I am logical enough to / admit this: that I could be wrong. Some might say that I don’t “have faith”. / Not true. I’m smart enough to know when I’m beat at the thinking game. / Logical enough to say, “if-then-else” (programming terms). / If I’m wrong, what’s “right”? I believe there is nothing to argue. But arguing is fun. / Especially if you know your argument. The Celts had a goddess for the Black Forest and Danube River, Abnoba, / and apparently a god or goddess for just about anything important. / They knew when something was outside of their ability to grasp it. / And when it was outside of their ability to grasp it, they made a god or goddess for it. That’s how all “religions” are created, isn’t it? The Jewish, followed by the Christians and Muslims, held to the concept of one God. / Was the process so different than the ancient Celts? / Did Celtic gods not give them a promise, too? I pose the question. Because you might have the answer. Christianity is thought by many outsiders to be, at least, a two-God system. But I’m comfortable with my choice. / It squares with my round pegs and triangular ones. / I’ve experienced “miracles” in my life. Miracles are relative, in my world of science and math and logic. / So I’ve experienced relative miracles. / Relative to me. The alien. Not the goddess. If I was a goddess, I wouldn’t need miracles. / And I surely would have found a great, good looking, smart-as-a-whip, / Harvard-educated, old-moneyed god to partner up with by now. / Or he would have found me. Right? So instead, for the challenge, I chose a Celtic goddess who was / worshipped to grant goodness and protect the things I love: -The forests, the parent version of our smaller but glorious woods, / in our currently decimated sub/urban environments. -The little critters who live there, that I find so cute / in their wit and willy ways, / adapting to keep up with their ever-dwindling homestead. -Fine birds of all variety: big hawks and eagles, owls, ravens, / down to the smallest of humming Hummingbirds. -Deer and their tender legged young, with eyes so big and soft, / they swallow you in black velvet. -Frogs and snakes and turtles, for whom speeding is defensive driving. -Rabbits and squirrels, for whom I’ve always hoped to crack the code / of their signal-flag tails. -Big cats, who remind us that eyes are the windows of the soul, / and astound us with their long-term memories of human love and compassion, / when it was there. Ah, yes, I would have liked this Celtic goddess, Abnoba, had I met her. / And If I wasn’t an alien, I would hope that she would be the goddess module implanted in me. God, Christ, alien, goddess, math, logic, intuition, consciousness, conscience; / I say yes. / My world is a mesh. / Abnoba, goddess of The Black Forest and Danube by F.A. Moore The Divine Feminine group is sponsoring the Celtic/Nordic challenge, open for voting now. There are some great contenders. My entry, pictured above, “Abnoba, goddess of The Black Forest and Danube”, a digital dream, realistically doesn’t stand much chance against the hand-drawn ones; I’ve seen the votes so far. / But I think she is beautiful, just the same, / as are the sweet creatures surrounding her, who fear her not. Goddess, alien, or human, I would love to live in that kind of world, / and in some sense, thankfully, I do. Aliens can fly, you know.
I wish all the artists and visitors a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. May all your wishes come large and small in 2010 in fulfillme…
I wish all the artists and visitors a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. May all your wishes come large and small in 2010 in fulfillment. / If all beautiful healthy. greets / Digital-Art
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