Dear Friends and Family I wish you a Happy Healthy and Prosperous New Year. Would love to hear from you in the new year 😉. Click Contact on the Menu option above and hit Submit and I will get your message 🤗 Rereading the post that I had written sitting outside a NJ fitness center parking lot waiting for my late night swim turn. I didn't know that a few days later I would completely demolished (unhurt) my Toyota Highlander SUV for 15 years on NJ78 that I had raised my 2 te

Very inspired after watching The Thinking Game Can Intelligence Being help me paint? I know I can swim fast because to swim fast one just have to be able to feel what it is like to swim faster like remembering the sensation of being able to balance for the first time on the bicycle. Hence it's endless swim sprint workouts of 50m and 100m until the swimmer is able to feel the sensation of moving faster and faster in the water. Swimming is a very technical sports like every

15 min still life drawing over Zoom is like doing Sprints in the pool for 50m 100m 200m. I never drew in front a computer when I was on the East Coast w 13 ft vertical ceiling and 20 ft horizontal wall space studios but on West Coast with endless water air and sky ahead it's actually good training to get mind eyes hands ready like doing sprints in the pool to improve swim Forms. With painting, life ahead w the coming of dark times and with swimming, ocean awaits. Breathe t

I used to walk and bike the length of Manhattan island like Mamdani to feel the inspiration from all the neighborhoods, people, buildings, streets and city noise. Now traversing along the cliffs next to water and sky silently feeling the relentless late season roar sounds of endless Pacific waves.

It takes very little to still keep some hints of a figure during 1 min quick abstract drawing w the model vs AI trying so hard to pretend that a video of Obama is really the real Obama to convince the human eyes to accept that it is real. To feel vs To consume. On Sunday I taught Oliver to be one w the convy so he can be safe within himself and within a moving car. Cedric told me that you don't get faster during the workout but from what you do outside the workout i.e. th

My Dear Friend Brigitte warmed my heart by saying ... but your WC makes one feel so safe and happy, so confident in nature . The blank white page always gives me the same self doubt similar to my entrance every time into the ocean until the first mark w some color is made and my toes touching the cold water. Let the breath quiet the wandering thoughts to trust the process, the intention and the preparation to ground the body into this beautiful Earth and find the joy of jus

To paint w open heart I have to abandon what I see and trust feelings emerged out of subconsciousness via Dadaist intentions of accidental mark making anchored by Cézanne pictorial planes while awareness of my breath leaving behind any remnants of conscious thoughts. I swam w an open heart tonight literally. My smart googles gave me an insight to keep my power stroke stretched out a little longer so I could swim more perpendicular to the water and open my heart more to the sk

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Take a color family and be its friend. Find out its potential strength and weakness Painting is like navigating the rough ocean with...