From Livelihood to Lifehood

Now that I’m retired, except for some unavoidable honey-do’s—I pretty much goof off for a living. I do lots of thinking… then writing… then anguishing… then editing… then anguishing some more… finally getting around to those honey-do’s.

Currently calming and pondering…
I’m about 15 in dog years
my wife says I’m 10
my brain tells me I’m 9…
but well into my 8th decade
as measured by Earth’s solar orbit
…relatively old for a kid

My last career job was computer aided design of internet operating circuit board layouts 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.

The most important career lesson I learned was from a female automobile mechanic. I was in my late teens and wasn’t happy with where I was working at the time and she told me, “The best thing you can do is make yourself valuable”.

Casting calm to a busy world

Susan calls this hobby my “hamster wheel”. I hope you enjoy browsing as much as I enjoy spinning…

This mindful sanctuary is not affiliated with ArtNet or any other worldly organization… it’s just me, with a little help from my friends and the machine. I have long thoughts and prayers with God. I am probably among God’s most stubborn and difficult children to teach. His patience is extraordinary.

The love of God is my inspiration for Ed’s Art Net. A better global awareness of Satan’s worldly wily ways is a shared aspiration.

God and Love are One in the same. Thusly, we reach peace with God through love. I try to convey that Truth with this website.

Ed’s Art Net is a sharing of my youthful art and oldful thinkings. I do lots of website proofreading and editing. It’s calming, like shampooing—wash, rinse, repeat. 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 this website had another name, it’d be Calm Olive Branch Shampoo.

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” A breath of fresh air”

I started out NOT knowing what I was doing. I just had a keen desire to show off my artwork. Development of purpose has been a lengthy learning and cranial “cleansing” process.

God deserves all the love and credit for any of this site’s healing, leading, binding and calming messaging.

Development for me, has been like cleaning up a mess in the yard during a storm.

Development got easier after ‘freedom’s elation’ when I first retired in 2020. The disappearance of deadlines and commitments—like vanishing nighttime sparks above a roaring fire—was emotional emancipation. And website editing entered a major paradigm shift when I discovered how to build text hyperlinks.

Focus increased in 2024 after I finally fully retired at the end of May.

In July 2026, I began using Artificial Intelligence to help with web publishing development.

In website informational conclusion

I’ve been told eds-art.net gives folks pause to think. Thinking can lead to understanding. I hope I’m easy to understand without a whole lot of thinking. I write from the heart just like with my drawing and painting.

This website is a means to “speak” to my kids kid’s kids that I likely won’t see in this lifetime. Walt Disney said it was “…kinda fun to do the impossible”… maybe leaving something that “speaks” to our kids kid’s kids is a part of what he was talking about.

I’ve also been told my website sounds a lot like preaching. I’m not a preacher. I’m a commonologist, artsyologist—who sometimes sounds like a preacher on his website.

It is what it is.

This website is my most fun and challenging work to date. Rendering both art and words to the internet within God’s good graces has been the most gratifying project of my lifetime.

Credits

Thanks to my family and friends for their help, life lessons, love, and patient understanding.

Special thanks to my Susan’s (1 & 2) without whom I would be lost in space.

Infinite thanks to Susan (1) for being the better whole of me and dealing as best she can with my wacky doodle, incredibly stubborn, independently wired noodle… not a marshmallow, just a unique fellow.

Most of all, thanks to God, who deserves ALL the credit for EVERYTHING!

flowers bloom and seed the earth
God helps them grow

Thanks for visiting!

Ed’s Art Net 🌐

If you wish to comment… I’m all ears!
ed@eds-art.net