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Working on 18 years of tweaking
2007🤕*🥰2025
I love working on Ed’s Art Net. I enjoy writing and editing. I do LOTS of editing… it’s calming. With me it’s like shampooing… wash, rinse, repeat… drives my wife nuts. I have that effect on myself as well. The shampoo directions don’t say “wash, rinse, repeat once”. No, it says, “wash, rinse, repeat”… It takes a whole bottle to get my head clean. If my website had another name it’d be Calm Olive Branch Shampoo.
Any browser search on eds-art.net should locate my website. This particular World Wide Web “place” is my therapeutic hobby. It’s a smattering of iOS emojis along with my honest to goodness old fashionably rendered art, words, and perhaps someday recorded music that all act as a calming island and mental balm for me. A mostly relaxing cyber “space” with lots of “calm” trees 🌴 and some messages to be shared with everyone old enough to learn about some important life and death conundrums. Which is probably around twelve or fourteen years old. Which may have been Jesus’s age when he first sought his real Father. 😇
The way I see things, we’re all God’s children. And patience is probably His simplest attribute. I think lovingly personable is His most prominent. How do you, or would you, feel about your own children?
I’m building Ed’s Art Net for my family and me… mostly me. It’s an ongoing web publishing ‘work in progress’ and may simply end up as an offline family heirloom… daddy, pop pop’s old art asylum. My calming refuge in a stormy brain and a stormy world.
Ed’s Art Net is built from the inside out. Most often from an end or middle of a topic to a beginning. The content has been typically very disordered to start. Resolution develops over long periods of time… but more astutely since December 2024. This web publishing effort replaced all my career design jobs with a spiritual twist. The inspiration for building a website came from my intense 2003-2005 Christian Bible study as I was searching for mental healing. I found help and I’m sharing what I learned along with what I’m learning.
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So far, it’s been fun and challenging, kinda like cleaning up a mess in the yard during a storm. But it’s getting easier. Efforts entered a major paradigm shift when I discovered how to build text hyperlinks.
September 28, 2007 – Acquired eds-art.net as my web domain and published my work to the internet. The web address is https://eds-art.net and will probably not be changing…😜
March 2020 – Discovered how to build text hyperlinks.
July 2022 – Switched to WordPress as my web publishing tool in order to take advantage of its blog features.
November 18, 2023 – Changed the website name from Ed’s Art Net to Ed’s ArtSite and my tagline from “Casting Art to the Net” to “Casting to the Net”.
May 17, 2024 – Changed the website name from Ed’s ArtSite to Ed’s Website.
November 3, 2024 – Closed visitor Comments.
✳️ NOTE: December 2024, I discovered some inconclusive evidence that this website was once under surveillance by Pegasus spyware. Cyber attacks have not been uncommon but there are safeguards in place for that. No other malicious activity has been detected, only gobs of spam to delete until I closed comments.
December 3, 2024 – Added MUSTARD SEED as the title. Before, it had no title… then in a flash of light… I heard a thought, it was a God wink grinning at me. 😶🌫️
December 10, 2024 – Changed the Ed’s Website name to MUSTARD SEED. Name and title are now the same.
March 27, 2025 – Removed the website name MUSTARD SEED and changed it back to Ed’s Art Net. Changed tagline back to “Casting Art to the Net”.
This web place isn’t without cyber attack safeguards but it also isn’t the end of the world if Ed’s Art Net goes offline. 😊
I’ve been told that my website gives folks pause to think. 😊
Me
Working on 74 years of breathing
1951😇*🫠2025
My wife, her sister and I are old friends. We were having our first and only lunch at a Sidelines Grill restaurant. The walls were covered with giant flatscreens. There was even a small one at the back of our booth. It was very noisy. The room was filled with people and little kids. I burped with my mouth open. It was louder than I expected. I did it unconsciously because I do it all the time at home.
Upon realizing that I just burped loudly in a public establishment, I said, “Whoops, excuse me.” Loud enough for anyone in earshot to hear over the visually blaring TV’s and people talking. Immediately my sister in law said, “We don’t do that in public!” She and my wife are southern born Christians with a penchant for manners. My wife retorts, “He does that all the time at home.” To which her sister exclaims, “That doesn’t make it okay!” To which I replied, “Sorry. I’ll try and do better… and maybe start practicing at home.”
I know things. Things like, don’t argue with a southern woman. Just politely answer them as best you can. And as far as my cell phone, like my manners, I don’t keep a constant eye on it either.
My last career job was designing internet operating circuit boards along with a distinguished team of engineers, managers and support personnel. Prior to that I was an electronics technician evolving into circuit board design in the defense industry working with tactical missile systems. My first career job was a professional artist. During my younger years I worked many odd jobs beginning at age nine with a newspaper delivery route.
My good friend Travis once asked if I thought God’s purpose for me was to be a teacher. I loved the question. Travis knows that I have some strong opinions. He loves me anyway! 😎
I had dreamt I was a spiritual philanthropist. I’d been harboring a delusional belief that www.eds-art.net was going to save mankind from self-destruction. Not soon, but many years from now, after I’d passed. My thinking was that my website would eventually be widely read because I uniquely understood God’s message through his son Jesus Christ. And that everyone on earth would begin to understand that “us humans” had inadvertently added our own thoughts and words to God’s Holy Message. My website was going to correct our self destructive narcissistically focused path. Setting us sailing, as one happy and content Earth culture, upward and outward exploring God’s universe, pure of spirit and free from evil… It’s called grandiose thinking stemming from bipolar mania. God planted the mustard seed and I watered it.
Ed’s Art Net has been a part of my mental healing process since its inception. I’ve harbored a thought, but have never been certain, whether I’m supposed to promote my website. On one hand it feels intrusive to advertise but on the other hand it feels good to share my work. This website has been the hub of my self-help mental therapy. I’ve had breakthroughs and right now, in 2025, I’m probably as stable as I’m ever gonna be this side of Heaven. God, His many helpers, and working on this website are helping orient my mental and spiritual balance same as a gyroscope helps steer a starship.
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I identify simply as a retired from working for a living family man. I like calling myself a commonologist. I like it because it reflects my stable demeanor. “Common…” because I’m no better or worse than anyone I have ever met or heard of except One. And I’m an “…ologist” because I’m fundamentally curious with a gift for the obvious. I like to believe I share those traits with a lot of people.
As far as my spiritually messaged writings, I identify with Elihu in the Bible book of Job.
I don’t agree with following the crowd. Compassion is most easily shared between individuals and hysteria is what’s most often shared amongst a crowd.
I inherited my mom’s sense of humor and my dad’s mental illness and talent. I’m no angel. I’m a work in progress. I’m a wacky doodle mutt relaying an age old message from God. If I love, my conundrums resolve. If I hate, I make conundrums. Simple as that. 💙
For decades I thought I was spiritually on my own. But I’d always felt a connection to something more than me. I learned a while back that God is with EVERY SINGLE ONE of us all the time. It took me a very long while to realize how real He is and just how much He cares. This website reflects what I’ve learned and what I’m learning. I owe ALL my blessings for what there is of my sanity, life, and work to God and helpers. Love works when nothing else does. Perfect is a ❤️ away.
Ed
Favorite book – Job (probably the oldest book in the Bible)
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