Little Banjo's Musings & Drawings

Thanks for popping in!
I am a seeker of truth & beauty, I have found inspiration growing thru cracks in the concrete in the form of a wildflower. I believe in God.

Welcome. This is my musings on life, God, poems, ponderings, & thinkings, as the good Lord helps me thru another day. I am both down-to-earth & head-in-the-clouds. I like drawing, craft, wildflowers, animals, art, guitar, reading, miniatures, gnomes, Weetbix, climbing trees, bicycles, walking in the rain & good natured people....

Sunday, May 25, 2008

Dolphin A' Leaping Into Moonlight

Here's another one of my pixel paintings. It's a pencil drawing of mine that I took a photo of & then painted using Art Palette Pro, a cool little art program on my mobile internet phone. This lets me pixel paint while reclining in my chair.
I'm very new to this...
(pixel painting and blogging)
...but I'm having fun.

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Happy Patch





'please, please
can you...
Fix My Car?'

Meet Patch. He likes drives. A lot. He even has his own lil car. (Truth be told he spends more time chewin it than drivin)
Patch's other interests are: mealtimes, chewing, sleepin, sniffin other dog's butts & playin 'grr-wuff-tag chasey'.
He also offers unconditional love. Thankyou, God for man's best friend. And thankyou for loving me with all my faults. Unconditionally.

'Bunny In the Wildflowers'




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The little rabbit gazes spellbound and still
As God's beauty surrounds,
Be what will...He leaps to join the dance.'
~Banjo



'Bunny in the Wildflowers' is a photo I'm in the process of pixel painting via mobile phone. That's right, pixel by pixel. I love bunnies. I know this sounds really cheezy, but I wud love to sit awhile amongst wildflowers & watch the rabbits at play.

Saturday, May 17, 2008

"Penguins Diggin the Aurora Borealis"

My painting 'Penguins Diggin the Aurora Borealis'

Friday, May 16, 2008

Random Acts of Kindness...

'Thankyou for yr kindness. What can I do to repay you?'
'You can pass it on.'


Kindness isn't meant to be 'repaid'. Kindness isn't meant to be done for the equal return. Maybe nexttime you find yourself helping someone out of the blue,& they say 'how can I thankyou?' you cud smile & say
'Please, just pass it on...'
...and who knows how far your kind deed will travel, if everyone just passed it on, your little bit cud go right round the world... and...? ...what do you think...?


There's a movie out there that I think is pretty terrific. It's called 'Pay It Forward'
And it's along the same lines.

A beautiful ole hymn

''When morning dawns, farewell to earthly sorrow!
Farewell to all the troubles of today!
They'll be no pain, no death in God's tomorrow,
When morning dawns & shadows flee away.
--
How then little these trials of life will seem,
How light the heavy burdens we have borne!
The deepest sorrow like a passing dream
Will be forgotten in that blessed morn!''
--
'BELIEVE'
Why I believe? Sometimes it's hard & I struggle a lot in my faith about 'when bad things happen to good people'. Chronic illness means every day is hard, it's hard losing my independence, its hard having to rely on others. I'm sick of being sick & tired & in pain. I get so mad at God, & say things I don't ought to & cursewords too. But u know what? It's ok coz He can handle it.
Psalm 62:8 says 'Pour out yr heart to God, He is a refuge for you.'

You gotta have faith, that's all I know. You have to believe in something. For me it's God.

'I do not seek to understand
so that I may believe,
but I believe so that I
may understand;
& what is more,
I believe that unless
I do believe I shall not understand.'
~StAnselm, Prayers & Meditations.

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"In this life of froth & bubble,
Two things stand like stone-
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own."
-anon