Giving is something more than receiving,. Giving has the authority and a sense pf generousness and charitable power over receiving.
The hand the gives stands above the hand that receives but no giving can ever happen when there is none to receive. Hence giving and receiving is like two sides of a coin, they are one.
These acrylic black on white strokes of random sketches I painted for my son at about three a.m. on Christmas Day when my kids were all in bed. They manifested after a long hour of silennt meditation upon waking up in the middle of the night and reflecting upon what was best to cover the walls of his new 'Villa'.
The idea for these works are not new and many artisits throughout history both in the East and west have rendered their own strokes such as these spontaneous epressions in one form or another. In modern term they may be considered as a Zen Art or Taoist mindless inactive action.
Later I found most everyone who came over to the hopuse on Christmas Day and the following liked them very much and one or two offered to buy them! But these were a Christmas gift to my son from an empty mind through inactive action. Capturing a fleeting moment in space and time like the flash of a lightning, now here, now gone!
To my son's mom, my former wife and still my closest friend in spirit, a great Golfer, 'Dune Basher', Sky and Scuba Diver, A Globe Trotter and a great mother and Extrordinary Teacher...
A special gift to salute her accomplishments in life.
Yes, her black cat sitting facing a golf ball on a 'Tee' facing in the Distant the tallest building in the world in Dubai and the words read..."To the Top...9 Iron.
Faye M.Batey flew in from the cold German winter to celebrate Christmas of 2010 in Dubai with us. In years to come if this blog still exist as it should in cyberspace, this moment in the lives of the Baharis is forever remembered...this is giving and receiving...and 'Unconditional Love prevails., on yet another Christmas day.
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