Facets of a Diamond – Blog

Can a lullaby
ever be played?
Isn’t love
to be sung?

You are as my mother 
aspired to be: 
when I look in your eyes 
– it’s her love I see. 

This is reprised (“haiku’d”) as

You are as my mother 
– it’s her love I see. 

Which can be further abbreviated to

You are 
– I see. 

And the “you” is anyone, everyone, anything, everything. And in this context the “see” means to Know in

I paint for you:
for you to be inspired
to paint for others.

I am a healer,
and to heal
is to help make whole:
one with your Soul.

And your Soul
is your Muse,
your innate Creativity.

Paint from your Soul,
and, at last, be Whole.

And then paint
to help others
to their Souls.

When I meet with a sufferer from any disease I recommend that he read all the books on it that he can find. And then choose the particular approach that appeals to him.

I reassure him that I will assist him along his chosen path. But – and it’s a big but – it must be

Yes, I am pantheistic. Everything is Spirit – is its own unique individual manifestation of The Spirit. Everything is Alive! And the more we Know this Truth, the stronger can be our relationship with It.

Every painting is Alive! Every painting projects, emanates, This into the space before it, into us in that space. And the

Yesterday,
the trees danced.
Today,
they are still.
Different meditations.

At the end of his tragically short life (1850-1904), Lafcadio Hearn, “Japan’s Greatest Interpreter,” wrote this in his Reverie.* Especially poignant as he had been separated from his mother since he was two:

“It has been said that men fear death much as the child cries at entering the world, being unable to know what loving

Most self-help books
are primarily for the help
of the self of the author.

There is a purpose other than the usual for living. It is to be healing.

This, to the best of my efforts, is at the core of my endeavors.

I am not an author, only a writer attempting to heal. I am not an artist, only a painter attempting to heal.

Whoever I am, I am a healer