Euphrosene Labon

Huge apologies for not completing the pay it forward element relating to a recent blogger nomination. It does take a bit of time to find and link! NB Leaving a comment will have to be fitted in this week.

Thanks again, Daniel at Art Marketing Secrets!

To recap: Kreativ Blogger originated in May 2008 in a post by Huldas Verden. The Kreativ Blogger award comes with the following ‘rules’:

1. You must thank the person who has given you the award.
2. Copy the logo and place it on your blog.
3. Link the person who has nominated you for the award.
4. Name 7 things about yourself that people might find interesting.
5. Nominate 7 other Kreativ Bloggers.
6. Post links to the 7 blogs you nominate.
7. Leave a comment on each of the blogs (or Twitter) to let them know they have been nominated.

My 7 Things...

1. I wrote this list starting with number 7 first.
2. My first car was a Vauxhall Viva.
3. The energetic push on Glastonbury Tor made it almost impossible for me to climb without being dragged up by another.
4. I have had a near-death experience.
5. I have not read a fiction novel for more than 20 years.
6. I lived in a park home - a walled in caravan - for several years.
7. My last carnivorous meal was Steak Tartare.

My nominations are:

Kate Harper
Lynn Chapman
Rod McKie
Artsy Shark
One Millions Giraffes
Robert Genn
Ancient Art - after 50

Art is informed by the life we lead, by our thoughts, experiences and desires. My blog posts are either streams of consciousness, wrestling with spiritual concepts or other experiences in on this particular spiritual journey. For examples of how this translates into my art, please visit my gallery. Euphrosene Labon Mind Body Spirit Artist Author Writer

blogger nomination

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 remove 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
For examples of my art please visit my gallery.

art blog, Wise El’s Big Thoughts, business plan, cellular memory, reincarnation

Ego and ‘ego’: fame, if not fortune, whether from blogging or higher up the sleb scale, could just be a cry to be heard, to feel there is some meaning to one´s life. Creating is one way, I suppose.

Parents create children to give their lives meaning; artists, authors, musicians - the obvious; businessmen, their
organisations. But what of the poor saps without any of these obvious blessings, skills or talents?

That stream of unfinished thought was from Monday. Yesterday, I went on a flower painting course, and discovered I could draw but not paint the blessed things in watercolour. With a bit of effort, and more learning, I probably would be able to but I couldn´t bear to look at yesterday´s efforts so they got ripped up - in the class.

It got me wondering why I saved my equally pathetic results from the portrait class (see corner) and, having seen M again, I dug them out. Because she still appeared to think I took hers, part of me really did wonder if I had.

Nope. No sign of them at all chez moi. The only oeuvres are my own. But I don´t think that´s going to stop her feeling I spirited them away.

Meanwhile, faithful readers will remember I have mentioned a few times how, even at a very early age, I had ideas which were dismissed as `scientifically impossible´. Some are now being accepted as plausible: consciousness in all sentients, even at microbe level; life on the Sun and so on. The latter is more open to possibility as scientists have found life underground that thrives in horrendously hot temperatures.

So where did my knowledge come from? At around 10, I was certainly not reading metaphysical tomes. Why did I always seem to have a profound belief in the interlinked consciousness of all life … but not as it is generally known?

Last week, I ordered some books by Swami Prabhupada from Amazon.

Reading Life Comes From Life, I could only nod in recognition, although Prabhupada quotes the Vedas which I have never read from cover to cover - and certainly had not even glanced at in my earlier life. So it´s back to wondering precisely where this information comes from, and why just some not all.

Euphrosene Labon Mind Body Spirit Artist Author Writer

Euphrosene´s Gallery of Contemporary Spiritual Art & Cartoons

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