As Arthur C. Clarke once said about our blue planet: “How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean.”
A school of fish represents wisdom.
Category: Art & Comics
On the eve of the eclipse I release “Me and My Shadow” as a free e-book
During the pandemic I published, “Me and My Shadow: Social Distancing 2020.” Early on, there was confusion about whether people should go outdoors at all. In this comic, Jay is led outdoors where he encounters shadows in nature, people, and his heart. Shadows are explored on a cosmic level, witnessing a lunar and solar eclipse. The work was originally a limited release of 50 print chapbooks, published under my alias, Jan Andreas. Now on the eve of the eclipse of 2024, I release it as a free e-book.
Ice Scream
Cold water whispers sweet secrets of bliss.
Immersion
Immersed in the cold water our separateness eases for a time.
Jane’s Hammer
Jane Foster was worthy to wield Thor’s hammer Mjolnir.
Chopping a Hole
“I’m fixing a hole where the rain gets in
And stops my mind from wandering
Where it will go
Where it will go
I’m fixing a hole where the rain gets in
And stops my mind from wandering
Where it will go ….”
~ The Beatles, 1967.
Equanimity, a Gift of the River
Equanimity, a gift of the river.
Indifference is the near enemy of equanimity. Both appear as cool, calm and collected. Two ways of being, actual opposites. Beneath indifference there is no feeling, a nothingness.
I am not indifferent to the cold. Cold river dipping involves things uncomfortable and aversive. Equanimity feels the pain, understands it, absorbs it, lets it go. In this, the pain loses its power. In equanimity there is hope.
~ Image and text inspired by fellow dipper, Bruce