Mr. Beerhorst - Amicable and Authentic

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This picture was taken at the Cornerstone Festival last month by my friend Micha Bloom. Micha makes great music, takes wonderful photos and is also a very acomplished painter. It was great to reconnect with him at the Fest. That festival has almost become like some kind of strange and wonderful family reunion for our family.

I often fall into sour moods in the evening hours. I have asked God to help me move out of this pattern. Tonight I am blogging as a way to press towards the positive. Doing something creative often seems to help me puncture these big black balloons that cloud my vision. I read once that Picasso only felt free from his demons when he was making stuff. (Hence, he made a lot of stuff)

Brenda took the two little girls to the park after dinner. I washed up the dishes and cleaned the kitchen and now Rose is making blueberry muffins while the CD player blasts out the Bowman sisters music. Shepherd is drawing at the table now that it has been wiped and dry.Dove was’nt home for dinner. She went swimming at a friends back yard pool in a different part of the neighborhood.

I streched 4 canvasses today 16″x20″. I cut the strecher bars out of second hand two by fours a contractor friend dropped off a few months back. I am hoping to do some field studies with my little portable easel before the weather turns too cold. Some times it helps to paint out side seeing what I can see. Panting outside scenery helps keep me fresh. Julia Camron talks about doing things that are fun for her as a way of “restocking the pond” for her writting ideas.

We bought a new digital camera today. It is a Canon PowerShot A640. It is quite a step up from what we have been using so we are pretty excited to get back to adding new photos to our flicker site. Oh Boy is Pearl ever excited!

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Rick 1973

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It is unusually quiet at the Beerhorst house today. The two littlest girls are over at “the Shaws house” down the street. Dove is at a back yard campout sleep over that she has been living for ever since her invitation. Shepherd, it’s hard to say, he’s been gone prettymuch all day some where,at one of his many friends in the neighborhood I suppose. Rose is on her way to the mountains of Woyoming for a week long hiking expedition with a group of youn people from a church in Big Rapids MI. Pearl must be up in her room reading as is Brenda. Brenda and I are in the midst of a cleansing fast today maybe for three days it we can hold on that long. This will be the first time I have ever fasted for health reasons. We are just drinking lots of water and red tea in the hopes of ridding our bodies of the bad stuff that tends to hang around inside of us. Aparently a cleansing fast no and then enable your body to be able to heal itself. Also the body is better able to absorb the nutrients it needs when it is clean.

What do you think of the cool picture from my 70s past? My big brother Ray was an amature photographer who even had created a dark room in the basement inorder to develope his own film. He was also a gear head hence the shiny chevy I am leaning on. It’s kind of funny to think that I have lead my family into a life beyond the tearony of the automobile. We have been without a car for nearly two years now.

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portrait of Grace with white rose and book

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This is a new painting. I actually began this piece oer a year ago while still living in Brooklyn. I began working into it again last week. I have been doing some drawings of Shepherd in hopes of a painting to follow but not a lot of sparks there yet. I have been making the backgrounds from old master paintings as references to create a deep sense of place that is not specific but more like some place you are in when you dream. The children continue to be patient with my requests for their poses. Their uique beauty and wonder continues to be a deep pool of inspiration for me.

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