In Twenty Four
Happy New Year!
Breaking Lore in 24! The lore that war is the answer any more… no more in 24. it’s lore not the door your leaders had in store. Stop keeping score, Time for a new kind in twenty four.
How about a musical score.
Take some time to look indoors, what’s being ignored?
Personal lore, family lore, cultural lore, societal lore, planetary, microscopic & cosmic lore.
What lore, myth, story are you believing that’s not real anymore?
Is there a hard truth you could acknowledge & forgive yourself for hanging on to.
Let it go! Let it bubble up and away or bust it loose? Shake that caboose!
Lore & myth… stories that become larger than life, hold a kind of power to transfix.
Take us out of our capacity to have a balanced analysis. Both intuitive & logical analytical. Sometimes lore is right and beautiful and sometimes it becomes obsolete… When do we get attached, lost in denial that its done, obsolete.
Time for a new story…
May this be a year of busting out busting loose from the old stories that have bound us. May it be a blossoming of the new creative score for 2024.
Wishing you and your Loved ones the best for 2024!
& wishing your unloved ones, the best too.
if that seem a bit of an odd New Year Greeting, i hope it will make sense if you continue…
Isn’t it funny in a way that we qualify our good wishes. What if instead we wished well to those we have assumed to be our enemies as well, if they got well, maybe they’d stop being that.
Maybe i’m a Pollyanna but it seems that war is never the anticipated remedy but instead breeds more sickness. So to spread and grow goodness to all, it actually helps to extend good wishes & things to the unloved to to whom we’ve withheld our love.
More than 100 years after the first “world” war and more than 50 years after the 60-70s peace movements & we are still operating as if the myth of war made sense. Continuing to live in a world that can’t seem to implement the most logical, to me, understanding, to use this incredible gift of language and communication humans have developed to find another means besides violence to resolve our conflicts. It seems so obvious to me and i know to so many others, that we have another way. How can so many object and so few still runaway with the controls…
Enough!
It’s time for humanity to wake up & break up with the lure that war can be an answer.
It’s time to replace the old myth of other with lover.
May 2024 be the year we bust loose from the outdated lore of war
& replace it with amore.
i’ve reused this image above because i wanted a peace sign for a new year greeting.
Below are a few pub drawing from this week and what i’ve begun working on in color from earlier line drawings of musicians are last.
Bubble up or bust it loose, peace to you in 24!
Thanks for sharing this wild ride we are on around the sun! Cheers & don’t forget the fun!
If ChatGPT is so smart, maybe it can tell us how to eliminate war.
In any case, may cooler heads prevail in 2024!
Ahh! ChatGPT, its a bit of a wild card i think. i wonder if it will be able to create the needed wobble to change the systems involved in perpetuating war. Or, something else…Yes, cooler heads please!