Stepping back
When the possible seems impossible – step back from the wire.
Drew this yesterday. It offers a valuable flipside to The Joker’s “This is impossible – so let’s get started.”
As a sufferer of depression, one of the most vital lifelines is knowing when and how to STOP when you feel the pull of a downward spin. So I’m stepping back from the wire. Cocooning. Back next week.
Toothache and a dream
Imagine … sitting in the waiting room of a dentist surgery, flipping through a newspaper … you spot a sketch of the proposed Twin Tower buildings in New York … in that moment you decide, upon completion of the buildings, you will (illegally) string a tightrope wire between the towers (450 metres high) and attempt the imposssible … and you do it . . . not once . . . but you dance (and kneel and lay) along the wire, crossing back and forth 8 times! Phillepe Petite devoted years to making his dream a reality …
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Imaginary Enemies
There’s certainly no shortage of imaginary friends on this website … the Army of Ink (all 50 + of them!) … the BOys from the BOy series … the black pooch himself.
But are there also benefits in having an imaginary enemy? Mine’s The Joker. It’s a good thing to be able to separate the bad stuff, the dark thoughts, from yourself. So much easier to challenge when it’s out than in. To have those battles with something/someone on the outside - rather than turning it in on yourself. Feel free to make enemies with this clown – make him your own. Click on ‘The Joker’ TAG on your right to view previous Joker posts – and stay tuned …
Another one about imaginary friends.
No joke!
“I was only joking” – is a what some people say to get away with saying what they really mean. Fooling around with peoples heads is a dirty game.
No laughing matter !
Some folks have an intense fear of clowns. Here’s an excerpt from an article in Dumbo Feather magazine, Coulrophobia written by Kimberley Newman. Pictured, standing up to the resident Black Dog Joker on giant canvas used on Youth Focus camp.
Clowns were once the habitual and entertaining stars of children’s birthday parties, the pin up funny men of gags and amusement parks, and familiar comic characters of circus and pantomime. In my formative years, I blissfully celebrated three birthdays with that famous red and yellow clown, Ronald McDonald. Yet, dressed in oversized shoes, baggy clothes, distorted red painted lips, thickly-powdered face and devil-like tuffs of wild hair, it hardly takes a stretch of one’s imagination to see that there’s a dark side to the clown.
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Standing up to the Joker
Made this giant canvas to write on during the Youth Focus camp this weekend. Wrote this great quote across the 2 metre bottom:
”To be nobody but yourself in a world which does its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and NEVER stop fighting.’
(EE Cummings, English poet). Shoes models own. Always wanted to say that! I’m no model but I do walk in my very own shoes. Pass it on ….
