Where Do We Go From Here? 2024

Excerpts from the Soundtrack of my life (210)

in no particular order. The Soundtrack of my Life continues…

Perfect day

LOU REED

pencil drawing, Calbayog City, 2025

Today is my birthday.

I'm 74 years old and it's a perfect day.

Live long and prosper my friends.

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pencil drawing on watercolor paper

Calbayog City 2024

I just drew this about 30 minutes ago. I know it's not a finished complete drawing but its finished enough that she's talking to me. And I'm listening to her.

I think I'm going to listen to her for a while. Tomorrow is another day.

Update:

I worked on her some more. She's still only half done but she's still talking to me so I'm going to quit while I'm ahead. And it's dinner time.

A young woman with a hair barrette

Simple life

pencil drawing on paper

Calbayog City 2024

Everywhere I look in the Philippines there are women holding young children. It's so beautiful.

Some thoughts:

I had an art teacher once who told me to work fast. So I work fast. When I draw it's a battle between the pencil and the eraser. I draw and erase and draw and erase. What's left on the page is "the drawing." I had another art teacher once who said "I like to draw a lot of lines because I know at least one of them will be right." I think about that when I draw.

pencil drawing on paper

Calbayog City 2024

Mommy outside the store yesterday

pencil drawing on paper

Calbayog City 2024

Day to day living

pencil drawing on paper

Calbayog City 2024

pencil drawing Calbayog City 2024

Pencil drawing Calbayog City 2024

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Neil Young: Fireplace

Each time you fall in love

Coloredpencil and Watercolor

Monrovia 1996

I made this drawing in 1996.

When I drew it, by the grace of God, I had been free form alcohol for one incredible year and I remember, so clearly, that as I drew, I was feeling a deep new creative surge born of hope.

Life is an epic journey my friends.

Each time you fall in love - Cigarettes after sex

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A new chance

Ballpoint pen

Los Angeles 2014

I was in a lecture once and the professor asked,

"Why are babies young?"

That's a pretty deep question if you think about it.

How is it that the weathered old cells of two adults can come together to create a fresh new life?

The professor went on to give a scientific explaination which to me just lost the plot.

To me, when conception occurs a new reality begins.

A new miracle.

A new chance.

The next generation

I don't know anything

MAD SEASON

pencil drawing, calbayog city, 2025

Lèt me ask you something. What are you going to do in the future when every transaction we make is done on line and someone who you can't even talk to decides you can't do something?

Wondering outloud for a friend.

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Pencil drawing in my Moleskin

Los Angeles 2023

When I draw a face it's like meeting a new person.

So very lonely

Black sharpie on paper

Los Angeles 2016

De Kooning once said, "In order for art to work the finished piece needs to at least look better than the original blank canvas."

I think de Kooning said that.

Maybe I imagined it.

In that case I said it.

I don't know.

The Rolling Stones- 2000 Lightyears from home