Young Man Jumps To His Death

We mourn the death of Marie Osmond's son who passed away only eighteen years of age. Hearing it on the radio was one thing but getting immediate reports from the Internet at the engine search hit home fast to read it right after the radio news report was a sudden impact for me bringing me to near tears something I don't easily do. Spending all morning drawing and coloring with meticulous labor the Statute of Liberty was engaging I wanted to show the final results to a family member but she was intently listening to the news. I'm trying to find some clever saying but when the time comes the words will find its way.

JD Salinger

Nerves Galore is another blog of mine that lately has turned into a chess blog. I write about the famed author not knowing he passed away some four weeks ago. Holden Caulfield was at question and the information came flowing as to the death of Salinger. I wasn't even certain as to his still being alive or not. The man the myth the legend and creator of his famed book "Catcher In The Rye" has died oh me oh my yet I do not ask oh why a natural death it was there need no reason for the cause I stand here with a pause.

The Greatest Love Song Sung

Valentines Day is over a week old. If you are already in love and can't get the event out of your mind think of the tune and the lyrics to the sound track of the 1971 movie "Love Story" the theme song. Rick Astley sings it on You Tube and he's very good as the top vocalists and I love that clarinet musician in the background he plays a mean clarinet he rips into my soul and makes it fine. Some of the greatest vocalists have sung that tune. I know the lyrics and the tune but I don't have any ratings. I was first chair out of 26 clarinets in yester years in the school orchestra but that was then I do marvel at what some of these contemporary musicians can perform my dreams of playing like them are pure fantasy only in my dreams they are so great.

Second World Power The Coming of China

I'm not a professional journalist but as a volunteer I deal with them as an amateur I must have my wits about or suffer the consequence and I must account to all those who know me for what I say or believe. The news is only of my opinion and I wonder what is yours. China in my opinion is not a third world power anymore most of us know this but as far as a superpower as seen by those who I have polled I disagree China does not seek superpower status nor does it want such achievement and I cannot see it arriving to such status. If it does achieve such superpower status then it will achieve a power far in excess that I would have ever dreamed it could become. I still believe it cannot and will not do so. For China to succeed is not beyond my wishes and desire for that nation. But for it to become an aggressor nation I do not believe it is their nature to assume that role. I always knew China as a humbled nation one that has suffered immensely certainly more so before I have seen it in my life time. It therefore is an ancient and wise enough rising power to an extent a civilization which is destine to share whatever wealth it may have with other nations of the world.

Leonardo Di Vinci

The human possibilities boggle my mind. If it is news and captures the attention of onlookers even if it is history then it is news. Go to France to the museum where they house his painting get inspired look at the Mona Lisa then look at my drawings and yes. There is no comparison just as you cannot compare my chess game to that of the great high rating chess players or my tennis game to those elite. But I can be inspired by those of fame and point to them and say see there goes Van Gogh better buy those vans than a Toyota. Yes Father a little humor can hurt forgive me as I know what I do. It is the most famous and expensive drawing in a single view. Such a drawing is within the cob webs of my mind and I am inspired to draw the pictures of my inspiration as I see fit. So you see his pictures his drawings I will study and view and even appreciate as I go along in the world of drawing call it art if you will but a more accurate description is merely a drawing nothing needs exaggeration for I remain humble in my endeavor to make a picture I cannot bare to suffer anymore illusions of grandeur.

Panda Bears Are In

Yes they are. Everybody loves a Panda. Go see one. I did. In fact such a picture of a Panda makes me groove and swoon to the beat of the music. In my collection I have such a drawing having completed it in my spare time when I'm not sucking up the dust with my cleaners. It's a cute pose with the Panda's head tilted and cocked nibbling on some green vegetation clearly not in an attack mode like my other animals I have drawn with their teeth bared as if to say they are prepared to eat you whole alive better for you to be kicking and screaming as you become devoured in a most gruesome manner. Panda bears are the cute ones they aren't seen as killers or hunters save for fish every now and then is it the ears which stick up upon their large heads that is so appealing? Such a sight of a Panda bear as I just described can take away a good deal of the stress and strain of doing taxes or doing battle in a chess game. May all the zoos of the world take on more revenue and more Panda bears it is the mascot of China for good will and peace and prosperity for all good nations to receive may a thousand million flowers grace our world.