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under my tree
wondering to be
beyond the lee

amid the sea
outside of me
untethered and free

I sometimes wonder if I’m too confident
about what God wants of me.

I believe He just wants me to love.

While He was walking around on the earth, He told us that the least would be first… referring to who gets to go to Heaven. I think that means that higher and mighty behavior may be last or not at all. I have no earthly idea other than God showed us how we should love one another.

Now that I’m retired, I love to think and write then burden others with my thoughts.😬 I’m not after anything with this website but enjoying my own Internet hobby… and possibly saving the world. 😎 It’s a tribute to God, family, and friends plus a long, busy, full of stuff, “philanthropic publication” to you… the web audience. But I probably enjoy it more than anyone.🤓

An engineer once told me that “better was the enemy of good enough”… But since I’m not perfect, this website continues to be a work in progress. I think, “Boy, that’s not what you meant.” Or, “Boy, you could’ve said/done that better.” So I edit… or Ed it. 😬 Nerd comes to mind. 🤓

Don’t get me started on my artwork. 🫣 Some art cannot or should not be edited after it’s finished. Drives me nuts… But a website can be edited anytime and anywhere there’s internet connectivity. The ease of editing a website fuels my obsessive tendencies. 🤪

Ed’s Website is shareable to everyone who can understand the word conundrum and tolerate an OCD’d bipolar artist with a penchant for the spirit and website editing. 💙

Some artwork might scare young kids. Please share Ed’s Website responsibly. ❤️

What Ed’s Website is…

This particular World Wide Web “place” is my hobby. It’s a smattering of iOS emojis along with my honest to goodness old fashioned art that acts as a calming island for me. A mental balm, if you will, filled with said art, words, and safe web-links… A relaxing cyber “space” with lots of “calm” trees… and a message 🌴🌴🌴 meant 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 Father.

What Ed’s Website isn’t…

Content is not generated with artificial intelligence. There are no commercials, ulterior motives, or threats from trolls, viruses, spam, phishing, malware, or any other social evil. This website is not without cyber attack safeguards.

Who Ed is…

Definitely not perfect… though I have tried to be… spellcheck and grammar check is a blessing (sometimes). I’m constantly a work in progress. I’m no angel. I’m not sent from God on a Devine mission. I’m just a wacky doodle mutt with a conflict solution. If we love, our conundrums resolve. If we judge and hate, we make conundrums. It’s just simple common sense. God tells us that all the time through each other. 💙

I wish all of my childhood family could have received healing mental therapy. I didn’t know exactly what was wrong with us until 2003. I was born in 1951. I started out mentally ill, with a mostly mentally ill family, but no one knew… exactly. My outlook has been supervised by mental health professionals, with progressive adjustments in medications, for 21 years now. My outlook is still not ideal. It may never be on earth because I’m an imperfect, disordered human. But my outlook is the best it’s ever been.

I’ve been inspired… I’ve met a number of others who’ve overcome greater challenges… Like Laura F. who lost her family to mental illness then built one of her own. Her strength inspires others. And John P., who at six and blind wanted to become a race car driver. His spirit inspires bold dreams. And Josh V., who at twenty nine is battling brain cancer and has a very beautiful artist’s hand. He’s a hero in my book. And twelve year old Becca, who I met virtually over the internet. She’s Sean of the South’s blind friend who “leaps tall buildings” jumping into a swimming pool from the high board. She’s braver than me… and a lot of other folks.

People are inspiring when they overcome. ❤️

Love works when nothing else does.

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From the World Wide Web:

Lynn’s comment below is copied from her post on my art page.
I added my site links. Her words echo an insightful understanding of me and my work. I have to tell you… it’s a bit beautiful scary that Lynn, who I’ve never met outside the web, pegged me so well with so few words!

“Your writing accompanying your work titled Balance is vivid. I recoiled from it before I even read what you were dealing with at the time.

Your drawings of the dragons feel like you acknowledge there is an evil presence that you need to dominate so you won’t be subject to them.

You have the same thorn in your side that afflicts several of my family members. Periodically they are on the dark side of the moon. After a season they return to the bright side, and have a depth of vision found in the deep. The stars shine the brighter because they don’t expect them to be a constant fixture.

That shadow constantly is trying to swallow the church and its light.

Have a blessed day,
Lynn”

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Someone and something good is always at work in our somewhat chaotic midst.

Ed
Ed’s Website 🌴
Casting to the Net
Published – September 28, 2007
Last website update – July 24, 2024
Email ed@eds-art.net

Ed’s Website dedicated to Susan1 ❤️
My best friend

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