As I reach the last page in my block of 15 Arches Watercolour Sheets… I know that I must come up with something “timely” to paint on this humble last sheet. It is by no random coincidence that the last sheet is the most paint splattered of them all… being as it is… well… at the back of the book! (grin)
Maybe it’s nothing very special really… but that last blank sheet with it’s colourful clash of paint seeping along the edges and around the back… sure does have “character”. True grit even. For it has survived relatively unscathed to the end of the block. And with the prior experience of the 14 pictures that have gone before it… that’s got to have made it something kind of wonderful right? (I just know there’s a metaphor in there somewhere…) (((chuckles)))
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I decided with all the gloom and doom around on the tellie and in the news… I would try to make a small positive contribution to the betterment of the Universe by staging a virtual positivity “rain dance” (if you will). It’s my way of striking back. So now… if we can all join hands… (((chuckles)))
I have a theory. If everyone across the world were to switch off their television sets and stop reading the doom and gloom peddled by the newspapers for one whole month… the world might spontaneously come out of recession. I say “might”… because the theory is untested. But what if it worked?
Let’s face it… things aren’t really all that bad. Well okay… they might be kind of bad… and for some they might be truly terrible… but the world as we know it isn’t going to end. It might change… but maybe it needs to?
Truth is… things can only be as bad as we believe them to be. Life is a confidence trick. If we keep a positive attitude… and refuse to listen to the doomsayers expounding their pontifications at every opportunity on the little bright box in the corner of the living room… we are half way toward being in a better place already.
And in reality… we can be anywhere or any way we want.
We can be happy.
We can be sad.
We can worry.
Or complain.
The choices are endless.
In the end… it’s what’s going on inside our head (and our heart) that will ultimately determine our own personal experience of the world. And who knows what sort of influence a few positive thoughts… all put together… might collectively have on the world at large?
Okay… it’s just a theory. But from what I’ve seen and read… no so-called expert out there has so far come up with anything better! (((chuckles)))
As for me… I’m on top of the world (as you can see)
Last weekend my son Andrew dragged me kicking and screaming (okay not kicking and not actually screaming) into the lift and up to the 77th floor observation deck of the world’s tallest residential tower (the Q1 Tower on the Gold Coast) No… not scared of heights at all! The lift? Well… yes… maybe just a bit. But it only took 45 seconds and I can shut my eyes and hold my breath for at least that long… (grin)
Awesome view eh?
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