David Given Schwarm

Married, Father, United

Chuck Close

Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine

Graphic Novels just keep getting better! Seriously Ward, Moore, Clowes, Hernandez Bros, etc. etc. so much good stuff is coming out in the genre that I cannot keep. I almost missed this collection of the Optic Nerve stuff & am I glad that I did not. An amazingly gripping tale full of humanity, love, loss,…
Fuji Small Organic 94129

This was a good one, but again a little softer then I like.
Mahatma Gandhi

Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.
George Bernard Shaw

The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation.
Glory of the Aposticha of the Feast

Make glad, O Jerusalem, and all ye who love Sion, keep feast. Today the ancient bond of the condemnation of Adam is loosed. Paradise is opened to us: the serpent is laid low; for of old he deceived the woman in Paradise, but now he seeth a woman become the Mother of the Creator. O…
33. Standing Still

Which is the nearer to you, your name or your person?Which is the more precious, your person or your wealth?Which is the greater evil, to gain or to lose? Great devotion requires great sacrifice.Great wealth implies great loss.One who is content can never be ruined.One who stands still will never meet danger.These are the ones…
St. Seraphim of Sarov, Spiritual Instructions

The body is a slave, the soul a sovereign, and therefore it is due to Divine mercy when the body is worn out by illness: for thereby the passions are weakened, and a man comes to himself; indeed, bodily illness itself is sometimes caused by the passions.
47. Difficult Recognition

Easy are my words to hear, and also to practice.Yet none is able to understandnor yet to grasp them. What I say springs from the ageless,the supreme Tao.No knowing Tao, no one can know me. Those who listen to me are few.What can they hear? To the world I am outwardly poor,but I carry a…
Go

I have been reading about Go and starting to play a little–I am really enjoying the game, but I do not think that I am very good.