juvenile retinoschisis

    My son has a degenerative eye condition. He may slowly go blind or it may happen instantly. We hope that it doesn't deteriorate any further but yesterday he had some difficulty seeing. These are some drawings from his last operation. He's eating freezies on the bottom drawing.
    He was in such terrible pain after the operation and asked us to kiss him where it hurt. Up until that day he thought that kisses 'cured' pain. "It's not working!" he cried.

I don't pray but if anybody feels so inclined I'd sure appreciate it.

A Valentine's Card

Genesis 22:1-18

22 Now it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!”

And he said, “Here I am.”
² Then He said, “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”
³ So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son; and he split the wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which God had told him. ⁴ Then on the third day Abraham lifted his eyes and saw the place afar off. ⁵ And Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey; the lad and I will go yonder and worship, and we will come back to you.”
⁶ So Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife, and the two of them went together. ⁷ But Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, “My father!”
And he said, “Here I am, my son.”
Then he said, “Look, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”
⁸ And Abraham said, “My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering.” So the two of them went together.
⁹ Then they came to the place of which God had told him. And Abraham built an altar there and placed the wood in order; and he bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, upon the wood. ¹⁰ And Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.
¹¹ But the Angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!”
So he said, “Here I am.”
¹² And He said, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.”
¹³ Then Abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and there behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son. ¹⁴ And Abraham called the name of the place, The-Lord-Will-Provide; as it is said to this day, “In the Mount of the Lord it shall be provided.”
¹⁵ Then the Angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time out of heaven, ¹⁶ and said: “By Myself I have sworn, says the Lord, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son— ¹⁷ blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. ¹⁸ In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”

Ezekiel 1:19&20

"When the living creatures moved, the wheels beside them moved; and when the living creatures rose from the ground, the wheels also rose. Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, and the wheels would rise along with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels."

Confined and locked within a proud and deceptive consciousness....

Does nature not conceal most things from him-even concerning his own body-in order to confine and lock him within a proud, deceptive consciousness, aloof from the coils of the bowels, the rapid flow of the blood stream, and the intricate quivering of the fibers! She threw away the key. And woe to that fatal curiosity which might one day have the power to peer out and down through a crack in the chamber of consciousness and then suspect that man is sustained in the indifference of his ignorance by that which is pitiless, greedy, insatiable, and murderous-as if hanging in dreams on the back of a tiger.

Love never sleeps

I am still sick

This is the type of thing I draw when I'm sick. It's clearly the work of a sick mind.

I am sick

The year of the dragon starts tomorrow

    We found the black water dragon at the beach last summer. It was probably the wrong thing to do but I let the kids take it home.  It was a great pet for a few days but when it tried to eat my daughter I freaked. I grabbed it by the tail and threw it against the wall, then picked up a shovel and was about to mash it but it looked at me with such a profound expression of sadness that I let it go.

    I know I should've killed it but how could I?

    Imagine if you took a time machine and saw little Hitler in the playground. 

Would you kill him?

When my daughter was a baby...

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Robobitch

    This is the cover for a secret story of mine. No one but me has ever seen it and no one else ever will.

    If an outer space alien reading this somewhere in a galaxy far far away decides to hunt me down and dissect my whole body looking for it, they wouldn't even find it in my brain.

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My Facebook Nightmare:

    I was looking at Jane’s  status update. She often posts photos of animals. I once shared a photo of a squirrel that went over well, I think. This time she posted a photo of George, my golden retriever.

    I wrote as a comment, "just wondering Jane, how did you get this photo of George?"

I clicked on the photo and I was instantly in my backyard at nighttime patting George on the head. There was a party inside the house but George and I were in the back alone. Karin and the kids were at my in-laws’ place in Ontario.

A photo of George licking my face was up on the screen and a new 'like' was coming in every second.

    George and I were happily wrestling with each other, falling to the ground laughing  (the YouTube clip went viral)  when I saw a mean dog staring through the fence.

I came out with a really cool image of the dog with a bloody bone in his mouth and leaning over a hole with a bloody human skeleton in it.

I posted it but nobody liked it.

    I clicked on the image and it showed a clip of the dog running to our house. The image stopped with a daytime still of our backyard. There was a screaming sound.

This was on my wall. Someone commented, "George is in the basement."

I clicked on the image and I was in our backyard. George wasn't to be seen. I still heard the screaming. 

    I grabbed a machete out of the garden supply box and walked into the house. The sunlight made a high contrast effect on the slaughtered bodies. Nobody was 'liking' it but the comments wouldn't stop. The bodies[whose bodies? Not sure which bodies…] were all cut up as if the mean dog used a knife... a machete!

    I looked at the machete in my hand. It was dripping with blood. I thought, "It must be the machete that the dog used."

    I had been set up! The policemen were at the door. I could see their red and blue lights flashing through the windows.

    I ran  down to the basement and saw George's hacked up body and started crying.

    "Poor George, nothing will ever be the same without him now.

    Life just won't be good anymore," I thought.

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新年快樂！

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  The world is slipping into darkness while us beautiful people in western culture sleep. We are oblivious to the change that is awaiting. The black water dragon wraps its coils around us, 

yet...we float!

We may make it after all. 

It doesn't make sense for us to prevail but we have this magical ability to float.
How will it end? 
How will it end?

I better put this out before Apple takes over the world and nobody remembers what a Blackberry even is anymore.

What about the kids?

More than 5.6 million Americans are in prison or have served time there, according to a new report by the Justice Department released Sunday. That's 1 in 37 adults living in the United States, the highest incarceration level in the world.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0818/p02s01-usju.html

In the future: the insects will be gigantic and vegetarians will be their friends.

Twilight For Toddlers?

    Are they really targeting preschool girls for the Twilight vampire book franchise?

It's Martin Luther King Jr. day

   Martin Luther King Jr.'s words are timeless and universal. They are not just about the African American struggle but can relate to the individual as well as being influential to global policies. 

   Celebrate the day by reading one of his speeches!

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I'm trying to learn french!

    We moved to Montreal and it's pretty darn easy to get around only knowing english but I feel like an ignoramus. Little kids will say something in french to me and I'll have to say, "I'm sorry. I'm from Vancouver and I still haven't learned french yet." Then they'll switch over to english and talk to me. It's no problem for them.

    People aren't just bilingual here either. It's really common to be multi-lingual.

    At suppertime we've resolved to only speak french. I'll learn the language yet!

The translation for the above panel in case you can't read my messy printing is:

    "I've got a first aid kit in my glove compartment."

    "It would be better to call an ambulance."