Eat your vegetables...or else.

EAT YOUR VEGETABLES



What we should eat has become a hot political topic. Don’t be distracted, don’t even listen…..just do what your grandmother told you to do. Eat your vegetables !

Or else. Sooner or later all the sugar, salt, fat, and the secret ingredients will catch up to you. And when it does I guarantee that you will hate that part.

I have this piece hanging next to my dinner table to remind and warn me what will happen if I don’t eat my vegetables.

Even if you break all your New Year’s resolutions, don’t lose weight, save more money or quit this or that, if you just eat your vegetables you will be better.

CAN'T HURT ME

Can’t Hurt Me

This piece is somewhat the same idea as the “wild heart” but this heart has no desire to get out from behind bars. Armored with metal and behind a heavy screen this is a lost and lonely heart. Beyond caution this heart has erected barriers that are limiting in ways we can’t imagine. As closed eyes see nothing a closed heart feels nothing. This is a common condition and it is self inflicted. No one can close your heart, they may give you plenty of reasons to close up shop but in fact we do it to ourselves. It may be that this is the biggest mistake we can make. Queen Elizabeth of England once said “Grief is the price we pay for love”. If that is all love costs it seems a fair price.

The picture is not very good…..my camera is limited and it is tough to get good shots of the several lighted pieces I have been making. I plan to borrow a friends Nikon one of these days to make the photos but the project is not high on my list of things to do.

Also posted are pictures of Pippy visiting with the neighborhood cat who stops by for a free meal almost everyday. The morning shot reminds me of “red sky in the morning, sailors take warning”…..and sure enough the final picture taken the next day shows the results of the storm we were warned of.

The Wild Heart

This heart is all dressed up but rather than a night on the town it’s locked in “protective” custody. Turned loose a wild heart can create or get into situations with unexpected and at times disastrous results. The explanations for these events range from “one thing leads to another” to the old faithful “the devil made me do it”.

No matter the reason, once turned loose a wild heart faces all manner of risk and danger.. Injuries that can last an hour or a lifetime can occur anytime and without warning. Insurance to protect you from heartbreak does not exist, and there are no guarantees or promises you can depend on. No surprise than a lot of hearts are in hiding, safe from injury.

True the walls that we put around our heart may protect us from injury but the protective barriers also keep out anything good that may come our way. While we avoid the things we fear, we also lose the opportunity to experience the things we desire.

What to do? I have no idea except to hope for the best.



FYI: In Mohnton today we are enjoying a chilly 19 degrees and snow that may last all day. Also enjoying a steaming cup of Cuban coffee, a wonderful view of fresh snow, and a warm calico cat.
Hope you are enjoying your day, thanks for visiting.