Your Basket might Overload – Pen and Watercolour wash with typed labels
What a challenge this month. Thanks Ziza. I will never forget you for this.
Don’t overload life’s basket with negative emotions such as Rejection, Feeling Ignored or sensing you are Powerless to change things. Ditch these as they are too heavy. Allow the lighter ones such as being Thankful or feeling Blessed to rise upwards. Your basket, freed from their load will follow towards the sun. Oh dear! This is me in philosophical mode. Sorry!!!!!
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plasma_girl 10:10 am on January 26, 2011 | #
This is so whimsical, Bob; it made me smile just seeing it and taking it in! Thanks for sharing (and the message is a nice reminder, too)!
Uncle Bob 11:11 am on January 26, 2011 | #
Glad this truck a chord, Steph. I had real difficulty in coming up with a solution to this challenge and when I posted this immediately felt it bordered on the ludicrous. Thanks for helping me out with your kind comments.
Nikira 12:45 pm on January 26, 2011 | #
That is really a gem, Bob, would never though of it. I’ll be the one punching sharks with top arrows.
Uncle Bob 2:31 am on January 27, 2011 | #
Glad this worked out, Nikira. One of the hardest challenges yet. That man Ziza?
Ziza 9:05 am on January 27, 2011 | #
Bob, my grandson, you should have kept some of those lighter (positive) ones IN the balloon to maintain the height. Now that you’ve released all of them you might drop down in no time… I tried and tried to make you understand to think before acting, but alas… Now we can only hope that those sharks blunt their teeth on those negative boxes.
BTW, is that a wig you are wearing?
Shahrazad 10:05 am on January 27, 2011 | #
Somewhere over the Rainbow’s melody directly popped into my head after a glimpse of this piece. What a day brightener Uncle Bob. Lovely.
Uncle Bob 1:28 pm on January 27, 2011 | #
No need for a wig, Grandpa. Don’t you know that grass never grows on a busy street.
Uncle Bob 1:31 pm on January 27, 2011 | #
I’m pleased that this brightened you day, Shahrazad. Also glad that music contributed – “Music, the greatest gift from God we know and all we have of Heaven, below”. Just watch out for the wicked witch of the west.