Euphrosene Labon

According to a law of internet marketing, this should be either an art blog or one to promote my books. It´s neither - and it´s both. My art, in all its forms, and my books, are extensions of my inner life. I suppose it doesn´t hurt to repeat this from time to time - as I do - as I have no intention of creating one just for one or t´other. This is an all-round package - art, educational books and Wise El’s Big Thoughts.

The last couple of days have been spent revisiting my business plan - or rather my art tasks which became a revised business plan. And what a lot there is to do.

I managed to mess up Poppy´s birthday card which she now won´t get in time (apart from an e-card version). Am currently gearing up mentally to re-draw the whole thing. And the draft for an Easter card has a manic-looking bunny (see corner).

Happiness is when I paint loosely, freely, almost in an abstract way, and people see what I see and BUY. Soon.

Meanwhile: Are all children really born innocent? If cellular memory is viable, or indeed reincarnation, then logically (in spiritual terms) the soul would not be a totally clean slate.

I currently subscribe to the spiritual idea of different circuits being switched on (or off). It would be horrendous to be reborn with appalling memories. It would immediately negatively impact a fresh life. That said, there would be undercurrents; attractions to people and places; affinities or repulsions. But it would also give credence to the idea that some children are born with less good natures.

Having worked as a housemother in three children´s homes, I know children can be very devious and manipulative. In one home, I had to lock the door as one child had taken to leaving lit candles under the bed.

From this distance, I wonder why the senior house parents didn´t just removed the matches and candles. Being behind a locked door would not be much fun if the blasted home had burned down!

But it was a short-stay home so she wasn´t around for long. Maybe not evil, but there were examples of even worse behaviour - and one cannot always blame the parents. Many of us have had a troubled upbringing without going out and killing another sentient.

If you really want to depress yourself, read this article.

Art is informed by the life we lead, by our thoughts, experiences and desires.
Euphrosene Labon Mind Body Spirit Artist Author Writer
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Freedom of self-expression is a mixed blessing. Like the Monarchy losing its mystique, or discovering how really stupid most MPs are (take a bow, Ed Vaizey), the more we say, me included, the more we expose our faults and prejudices to the world. So why do we do it?

Maybe there is a need to be, if not loved, at least accepted, regardless of our various failings - and, of course, having unpopular or uncommon views could be perceived as failings. I have to keep reminding myself that my particular life delusion does involve thinking differently. Or at least trying to.

Preparing the speech bubbles for WEBT, and cross-referencing some scientific terms, I found myself repeating the metaphysical ideas of someone else. As it happens there is a parallel but it made me feel flat.

Yet when I write from personal experience, even if it is nothing new, it makes me feel alive, even original. But I seem to need to stop and be silent within far more frequently otherwise it doesn´t seem to work. And then I wonder why I bother. It´s not enough just being a high-performance computer in some humongous whole. I need to see and touch as well as feel that my life is worthwhile.

Euphrosene Labon Mind Body Spirit Artist Author Writer

Euphrosene´s Gallery of Contemporary Spiritual Art & Cartoons

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At Rank Xerox, we were taught that if someone did not understand something, the fault lay with how we were explaining it. I´ll blame the second bout, in one week, of negative food reaction for my lack of clarity, and start again.

Point one: the government, as usual, got it wrong.

It managed to whip up the public by not being straight enough, quickly enough, about Jon Venables. His name and location need not be revealed but the alleged deed should have, as it could potentially affect the well-being of others, and indeed got the ethersphere in a wild lather both for and against.

As for prejudicing any trial by talking of those potential misdeeds, my current understanding is that, being under licence, means Venables could be recalled to prison, without trial, should he step out of line at any time. Which he seems to have, frequently. I believe there may thus be a case for a swift return to prison without benefit of a tainted trial.

I do feel pity for him in some ways. If he has been revealing his true identity, it seems like a cry for help - or perhaps a desire to properly pay for his crime? Pointless giving him yet another identity if what he wants is forgiveness as `Jon Venables´ not A N Other.

Point two: name the deed but I strongly feel it would be wrong to share his new name or location. That really would be pandering to the mob.

Point three: Obviously that expensive rehab, continuing care and support, plentiful money, and early release were not very beneficial in this particular case.

I now read in The Guardian that "Relatively few people who have served a life sentence are recalled - last year there were only 89".

ONLY EIGHTY-NINE!

In my book, that´s a heck of a lot of murdering horrors wandering the streets for even a minute longer than necessary!

If this means of forgiveness, reconciliation and rehabilitation does not work, then there has to be another way of helping them to make good their wrongs. And, from everything I have read, the focus has been on rehabilitation, education and transfer of skills. Not a word of them making reparation. Even their freedom was not severely curtailed.

The taxpayer, ostensibly the wronged party in terms of overall harmony, continues to give, to care and to make good their paths for presumably their life.

Forgive, says The Bible. Seventy times seven. Yet The Bible also talks of reparation. And that is what is missing in this scenario.

What are these young men giving back? How are they making reparation for their wrongs?

Of course we should help others, but not to the extent where they cease to try and help themselves.

Enough. I am sure the papers will not let this one go and the other (Thompson) will also start to feel uncomfortable at this renewed interest.

Meanwhile, singletons cannot indulge in staying in bed all day, no matter how lousy we might feel (and I did) as there is no-one to fetch and carry, so I did go out, bought a couple of woollies - to make up for the huge bag of clothes I emptied from my cupboards earlier in the day - but couldn´t face food shopping. Got back home and mostly slumped on the sofa.

Today, feeling much better, I planned to go for a lengthy walk in the bright sunshine. But it was bitingly cold.

PS Balance is important. There are those who would have us pay another mega sum to give Jon Venables and other child murderers a second, and possibly third chance. Yet an MP who transgresses - and I will never be their number one fan - is forever `the disgraced MP´. It´s unbalanced and unfair. And that´s not forgetting the rights of the victims or their families.

PPS No time to proof. Apologies in advance for typos or lack of clarity.

Euphrosene Labon Mind Body Spirit Artist Author Writer

Euphrosene´s Gallery of Contemporary Spiritual Art & Cartoons

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