11/14/12 4:35am pst
Well good morning world, I think,..No as a matter of fact I know I found my heart. Somehow he and my shadow decided to take the day off and well forgot to mention it to me, found the note this morning tapes to the icebox. “Dear, Body you have become far to twitchy and broken these past few weeks so shadow and I are going to take a bit of a holiday,don’t drink to much while we are gone and remember to be kind and generous, the world needs love.”
Signed H & S
PS. Don’t forget to brush you teeth.
So to my surprise I found the scoundrels sleeping on the front porch this morning, it seems they forgot to take their keys.!
Ha serves them right, but they did bring me some lovely gifts. An Elysian Lotus flower from some botanical garden. A movie stub from a show called “Ela Enchanted” and a Blue Butterfly. Their we’re also some HastyWords at the bottom of a card it was rather touching I must say. Anyhow it’s time to take my pills and start the day here in my small corner of the planet. So as heart often reminds me to say. Be kind, be generous and be gentle to each other for you never know when one small word or act of kindness can bring someone’s heart and shadow back home.
Much love
Benjamin.
Ps: photo from 123rf.com
Expressions of my life - An evolution of art. 
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Thank you for your support when I’m feeling down and when I’m feeling good .it means the world to me!!
Sincerely
Benjamin
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Ben….very nice.
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Yes, yes it is. It’s good to feel my heart beating again. And as always good to hear your voice( metaphorically) speaking.
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Question: do you have tattoos?
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LOL….a few. 😉
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Me too, I was looking at the pic on your site and it reminded me of this girl I saw last night, she was amazingly striking, kinda like “what that’s just not possible” kind of beautiful. And then as a talked to her a I realized she had at least a full sleeve of these gorgeous tatt’s. Anyhow random thought. Thanks for letting me share.
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Im a wuss when it comes to pain. If I had an unlimited supply of some heavy duty pain killers, I’d be covered. Well, not really, because ink is expensive!!!
Anyhow, I have a fairly large thigh peice that extends from the top of my left knee, up to my hip. Believe it or not, that was a cover-up. yes….I’ve had my share of mistakes.
I also have a large fairy on my right shoulder blade, my daughters autograph on my left wrist, and script on my right forearm. That, will be turning into a sleve. Artist is working on it now, and I’m trying to co me up with the money. May take a while. LOL!
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I’m lucky I have a very dear friend who happens to be a very talented tattoo artist in Portland OR. And will let me pay (trade) art for tattoo’s.
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Im very jealous. Bartering is the way to go! Maybe I’ll try to bring my artist some brownies.
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Food is always a good tactic, years ago I used to trade my culinary skills for studio space.
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I better improve my recipe then.
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Mine are mostly Japanese except for my back, getting the atlas statue done on my back, ya know the whole weight of the world thing. Some Hebrew and arabic stuff as well.
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The script of my forearm is Hebrew.
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🙂 So, you finaly found your heart… You see? 😉
I’m glad you made a good experience after all, at least you found some interesting stuff.
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Many thanks to you an gypsy blood 😉
Tried to give some people some credit in that story and be to obvious. Not sure I’d it worked.
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😆 I am Romanian-Russian-Italian-German-Gypsy… That’s my blood line in short.
Even though I guess we all are, because there’s no pure race, we are all interconnected, especially that so many generations have travelled all around this globe…
How about you? Do you know details about your ancestors? 😀
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Dutch irish, German, English(UK) not USA supposedly my great, great grandfather came over from Ireland directly. On my mothers side their are tons of O’killoran still in Ireland that are direct blood relations. I’ve thought tons about packing up and just moving but for now I’m here. My son ended up with every drop of Irish we could find, fair skin, freckles and red hair with beautiful green eyes.
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Hehe, your little one holds the barrel with gold at the end of the rainbow, he’s a wonderful baby, lucky little angel !! 😆
That’s very nice to hear. As I said, we are all interconnected, mixed, so that’s why there’s such a huge variety of beauty, intelligence, inspiration. 😉
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I agree about being connected very much. And yes he’s a gem, one of the kindest souls I’ve ever met in my life.
I’m very lucky to have been given such a gift in this life, he’s me boy o’ if not for him I surely would not be here today at least not half the man I am.
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Ela I keep meaning to ask , what are your favorite colors.?
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🙂 I am happy for you that you are blessed with such a great boy! 😉
I love children and I’ve worked a lot with children, all loved me and I love them all. But never been blessed with my own child. Consider yourself a very lucky man. 🙂
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I do for many reasons, so for the late reply I’m in the studio trying not to cut off all my fingers as I get these darn frames ready, I love painting but I hate making frames. But I refuse to pay some guy hundreds of dollars to make me some generic frame that has no connection to the art it self. Any how if nobody has told you today, your rather wonderful and I appreciate your friendship.
Sincerely
Benjamin
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Thank you for your kind words, dear Benjamin, you are wonderful too and I appreciate your friendship also. 🙂
As for Do It Yourself, that’s my phylosophy also. If I can, I do it. If I don’t know how, I can try to learn. I also think that paying a lot for simple things that one can make on his own is not a good idea. Besides, as you said, how can a stranger know what you like about frames? They have no idea. As you make your own frames you make your paintings even more personal and you put even more heart in there. I think that’s wonderful. 100% art . 😉
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