The Ditched Samaritan
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HAPPY NEW YEAR, 2023!
One Day At A Time For me, that is 15,288 times today. Thank God it still works
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DitchedSamaritan.Com
The Ditched Samaritan Blog… …is a personal art project where I combine my lifelong spiritual disciplines of 12-Step & A Course in Miracles practices with Art. The goal of this project, or more accurately, this practice, is to continuously, incrementally improve myself and, thereby, my usefulness to others. I have chosen the parable of The…
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Art: Just a Thought…
Limited vs. Open Editions, Pricing, Recognition & Notoriety. The artist acts as a conduit, knowingly or unknowingly. Each artwork is an inspiration; each has a message, a purpose, and intended recipients -until its demise sometime in the future. The artist is a facilitator and is self-inspired in the process. As a gift recipient, the artist…
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Art: My Father Once, and Me Twice
Memory is a funny thing; sneaky. I wish I could recognize them in their youth, in reverse. But they aren’t what they were when I was there -by the time I got here. Thoughts provoked by a Facebook post by Kevin James Tully: from The Christmas Deer, by Franklin Cincinnatus
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Art: Between Number One
from my “In The Between” project
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about my Photography
The grain in a fine piece of wood creates movement, and the text on a page makes symbols, but it is the contrast between the two that illuminates meaning. This project pairs images together to provoke a comparison, a difference. By doing so, I want the viewer to in-fill the gap between the pictures with…
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12 Step: Just a Thought…
The time will come. At about ninety days of sobriety, after I had realized that I “wanted to stop” vs. “had to stop,” I began to worry that I might not be able to. I remember the day, time, and place. I remember who was there and what was said (1981). They also told me…
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12-Step: Just a Thought…
One Day at a Time. Time is elusive. I need to be careful when I consider it. I can’t contain it. I can’t stop it. I can’t start it. Measuring it is an illusion. I vividly remember a meeting I attended where one of the “old-timers” announced that the meeting was his one-thousandth day; I…
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Beyond Appearances
“Prepare you now for the undoing of what never was. If you already understood the difference between truth and illusion, the Atonement would have no meaning. The holy instant, the holy relationship, the Holy Spirit’s teaching, and all the means by which salvation is accomplished, would have no purpose. For they are all but aspects…
