Monday, May 28, 2012

My Wife



Sunday, May 27, 2012
Yesterday was 12 years with my wife. Hurrah someone could put up with me and my mind for that many years is amazing. We have had our ups and downs, yet we haven’t giving up on each other. I am sure that many times she has thought about it, after all I am not an easy person to live with. My history has always been one of a nomad, if I didn’t like something I was gone. On the other hand if I want something I will get it no matter the cost, and I won’t lose. I have gotten older and look at things a little different than when I was young, I am still a hard case (ass) and I want things a certain way, I just deal with things a little, let’s say more tactful. I love my wife and my family, I still travel when I can, but I always have a home to come back too.

Sunday, April 29, 2012

STRESSED



Well some things are not up to us to change, like others choices to be idiots. If stress makes you stronger I am Hercules. The artwork is a poor man's mind.

Saturday, April 28, 2012

PERCEPTION



Saturday, April 28, 2012
I guess my mind is on overdrive, I see so many things in everything. Lay my face down and in the sheet design I see a perfect bird, yet the print is of a fruit basket. This is one reason that I can do cover-ups so well. I have always wondered how others see things. Many of the artists that create optical illusions have caught my attention for years. But in the goal to see how others see I had to see how others think. Years ago when I started people watching, the biggest problem is communication. Not so much the lack of, but the understanding of what they are trying to communicate. Simple that one sees it one way and the other sees it another way.
In this piece that I created years ago, I purposely turned it as I drew it. That would keep my perception changing. Over the years people have seen so many different things that I did not have “that idea “ when I drew it. But now that someone has said it I can see it and ever wonder how I could not have seen it before.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

My Fruit Loops soaked in pee


April 10, 2012
So out of all the love that we have been shown in our lives how come it is so hard to pass it on?
Why do people spend more time trying to get as much as they can from others, instead of maybe giving a little bit of the extra that they may not use? So much waste and some would rather see it go to waste than help one who might use.
There are good and decent people out there, I understand that some of those have been used out or up. You can only help someone if you don’t use up what you need to survive. Taking advantage of a good thing only lasts so long, and then the idea of helping anyone becomes bitter. There are largely growing groups that don’t want to learn how to fish, they’re to use to the fish just jumping in the boat. When the boat sinks or leaves they go and find another boat, I think it is time for most of the boats to go out to sea. We can leave them some line and a cane pole, maybe some hooks. It may seem like I am mean, but I have others that can’t take care of them selves. So why should I let someone take all that I have and short the little ones of the things that group had when they were little. Some won’t like the decisions I have to make; it is just a matter of survival.

Monday, April 9, 2012

RE-DO



the recent pics are recreations of tattoo and other designs I have done in the past.
Thanks for looking
Ray

Sunday, April 8, 2012

Happy Easter

Sunday, April 8, 2012

Good morning all and Happy Easter.
I guess the best thing to remember is that it is the time of season for new beginnings. No matter what your belief is, know that you can have new growth. Weather it is the buds on the trees, the time to remove the old air from the house, or just the time to forgive for something of the past, it is time for new growth or air. Many times we forget that to grow we have to shed some of the dead skin. Meaning that if we hold on to the feelings that make us bitter, it will weigh us down. So how do we move forward when we are stuck in the past? I am not saying forgive and forget, although sometimes that has to happen. Forgiving yes. Forgetting the past often leads to making the same mistake twice, so yes remember the past so you are more informed for the future. Also remember the past to give you the warmth and good feeling of the past. Enjoy the smiles of the past that may come back to you from those cherished times and loved ones. That is growth, forgiveness is growth, and yes if you think about it death is fertilizer for growth. It is always nice to have a second chance.

Saturday, April 7, 2012

My mind keeps bringing me back to money

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Sometimes when we think it all comes at once, or I am just off a bit. It would not be the first time someone has told me that I was.
Financially, I suck; here are a few ways to state the obvious;
I’m making it,
Just so no one knows how good or bad it really is.
Feast or famine,
Yep it is always something. The trick is how to make the feast last longer than the famine.
In the financial ocean I am…
Keeping my head above water, another way to say I haven’t drowned yet.
Sailing the high sea, show off. Even those with enough to be comfortable are terrified of the economy. And why not, you get use to a way of living and change really mess some people up.
One of my favorites, I’m still here. The waves keep hitting me and I’m still here. Well as I have said “I suck financially” I am not the only one living day today. Bills are bills and, budgeting is all good only if you can count on nothing happening.
The true really is that “things” happen. Sometimes the best reason to keep fighting the good fight is the person standing next to you, or the one you are carrying , or the hope of finding that one person to make it all worth while.

Thursday, April 5, 2012