"Easter Bunny" - Postcard

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This week's Our Midweek Muse theme was "Easter Bunny".

I created this using GIMP 2.10.38.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"Deviled Eggs" - Postcard

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This week's My Soul's Dark Imagination theme was "Deviled Eggs".

I created this using GIMP 2.10.38.

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"Collage 02" - Postcard

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I created this using GIMP 2.10.34

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

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I think the one word that makes everything bearable is Acceptance. That word is also the final stage in the grieving process, when a loved one dies. But it can be applied to everything in life.

Throwing out garbage accumulated during one's life is liberating. When one's perspective changes, one realizes that some things that one thought were important aren't.

And when one accepts that the dreams and ambitions one had for one’s life will never happen, it’s easy to toss it all into the garbage, and never look back.

"Eggs 2" - Postcard

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This week I have the honor of guest hosting Sunday Postcard Art, and I chose the challenge theme "Eggs."

I created this using GIMP 2.10.32

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"Easter Eggs" - Postcard

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I created this using GIMP 2.10.32

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

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I’m fairly certain now that every religion created by man was to keep the plebs obeisant to the %1 Rulers, who never were the smartest, they were merely the best deceivers of their own species.

And the %1 Rulers used fear as the core of whatever religion they invented, because they realized fear is the most primal emotion of all self aware living creatures on Earth. (Plants are alive, too, but they lack emotions.) Everything alive on Earth has one, and only one, purpose: to perpetuate (reproduce) itself. And to guarantee that primary instinct, Nature programmed self aware living creatures to fear death, because death potentially means extinction (that species ceases to exist). And that made fear the foremost emotion which the %1 Rulers have used to control the plebs throughout history.

I continue to return to this concept:

Nature is neither Good nor Evil.

Nature is merely reproduction and survival of the fittest.

Eventually Earth will be a lifeless planet, like Mars is now.

As Shakespeare said:

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

Macbeth

When a sperm fertilizes an egg (regardless of the species), cell division and expansion outward (growth) occurs, similar, if not identical, to the "Big Bang" and expansion outward (growth) of our Universe.

Some don’t believe there is a God (creator). Others then ask, "Then where did the Universe come from?" I say, "What difference does it make?"


Now don't hang on
Nothin' lasts forever but the earth and sky
It slips away
And all your money won't another minute buy

Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind

Dust In The Wind - Kansas


Were your white little bones of a bird
Crushed like a husk in the Great Deceiver's mouth?

You're a holy with no ghost
And if you’re blind to me
Why do you try to see?
Shouldn’t it always be
Obvious?

Husk - Dry The River

"Spring Break" - Postcard

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This week's Our Midweek Muse theme was "Spring".

I did a double entendre.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.32

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"Chickens" - Postcard

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This week's Sunday Postcard Art theme was "Chickens".

I created this using GIMP 2.10.32

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

Featured in the weekly sampler.

Christmas Angels - Photograph

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I took those photographs of some of the ornaments on my Christmas tree, and the Angel at the top.

"Christmas Bird Nest" - Postcard

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This week's Our Midweek Muse theme was "Leaving The Nest".

I went where my muse took me, so the eggs haven't even hatched yet, for the offspring to be ready to leave the nest.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.32

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"Red Bird Eggs" - Postcard

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I created this using GIMP 2.10.28

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"Recipe" - Postcard

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This week's Sunday Postcard Art theme was "Recipes." Mine is more "Food" than "Recipe" but it is all I could come up with.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.28

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

Red Pinecone Ornament - Photograph

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I took that photograph of some of the ornaments on my Christmas tree.

Green Egg Ornament / Vintage Tag - Photograph

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I took that photograph of some of the ornaments on my Christmas tree.

"Happy Easter" - Postcard

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I made an Easter Bunny theme piece. Happy Easter everyone!

I created this using GIMP 2.8.22.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

Month of March - The Book of Days

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I created a Spring / Saint Patrick's Day theme art journal page for the Month of March page for the weekly planner/journal that I'm using for my Book of Days.

I created this using GIMP 2.8.22.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

The master index for all of my entries is here.

"Green Hummingbird" - Postcard

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This week's Take a Word challenge was "Purple."

I created this using GIMP 2.8.22.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"Green Bird on Nest" - Postcard

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I made a bird themed piece.

I created this using GIMP 2.8.22.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

This is my entry for this week's Tuesday's Treasures.

This is also my entry for this week's All Seasons.

"Spring Bird" - Postcard

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This week's Take a Word challenge was "Birds."

I created this using GIMP 2.8.20.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"I Crow Over All" - Postcard

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This week's Sunday Postcard Art challenge was "Eggs."

There is an underlying dark theme to this piece, corresponding to my current world view.

I Crow Over All

Because Nature is neither Good nor Evil.

Nature is merely reproduction and survival of the fittest.

I created this using GIMP 2.8.18.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"Easter Greetings" - Postcard

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Happy Easter everyone!

I made an Easter theme piece featuring a bunny rabbit, bird nest, eggs, and clovers (shamrocks).

I created this using GIMP 2.8.16.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

This is also my 2300th blog post.