Happy Xmas (war is over)

all the difference in the world

An old man was going for a walk on the beach, when he noticed a little boy feeding a thin, shaggy looking dog with bits of bread.

He went up to the boy and asked him why he was sharing his bread with the dogs.

The little boy answered, "Because they have nothing. No home, no family, and if I don’t feed them they will die."

“But there are homeless dogs everywhere," the old man replied. “So your efforts don’t really make a difference”

The little boy looked at the dog and stroked him. “But for him, for this little dog, it makes all the difference in the world.”

Lettuce Prey Four Whirled Peas

Lettuce Prey Four Whirled Peas

("let us pray for world peace")

is my first blog and the inspiration

for "GlobaLove Think Tank".

Apparently, several people thought my

photographs and ideas were "objectionable"

and let Google know they were "offended".

I find this fact a vindication of my assertion

that some people are "offended" by the truth.

 http://lettucepreyfourwhirledpeas.blogspot.com/

Dionne Warwick - What The World Needs Now

John Lennon - Happy Xmas (War Is Over)

the end of suffering

The Tao of Kung Fu - Peace is prized above victory

the real peace symbol

Happy Xmas (war is over)

the beauty

responsible

I am completely responsible

for every person

on the planet

self portrait 1979

Lettuce Prey Four Whirled Peas

the buddha

Flying Elephants

suicidal thoughts

Happy New Year

HAPPY XMAS (War Is Over)

proof of love

do good things

Guernica

“The monumentality of Michelangelo and the High Renaissance cannot exist in our age, for ours is one of disillusionment, despair, and destruction. Guernica is a monument to destruction – a cry of outrage and horror amplified by the spirit of genius. Not only Gernika, but Spain; not only Spain, but Europe, is symbolized in this allegory. It is the modern Calvary, the agony in the bomb-shattered ruins of human tenderness and frailty. It is a religious picture, painted, not with the same kind, but with the same degree of fervour that inspired Grunewald and the master of the Avignon Pietá, Van Eyck, and Bellini. It is not sufficient to compare the Picasso of this painting with the Goya of the “Desastres”. Goya, too, was a great artist, and a great humanist; but his reactions were individualistic – his instruments irony, satire, ridicule. Picasso is more universal. His symbols are banal, like the symbols of Homer, Dante, Cervantes. For it is only when the widest commonplace is infused with the intensest passion that a great work of art, transcending all schools and categories, is born; and being born, lives immortally." Herbert Read