Owner wrote:
240209
A lot of my problems in life stem from the simple fact that, “I have just seen too much”; my problems in life are not the average sort of normal problems that people experience day in and day out, but of a nature that affects not only my creative side but also my ability to understand why change for something better is not the constant and entirely selfless search that is for self!
What brings me to now ponder upon such thoughts?
This evening I sat quietly absorbed in the roves above the shops, sketchbook, pen and mind fully engrossed in what I was drawing that my personal security issues just were not there, until I suddenly realised that a hand was right in front of my face with a 50 piece between finger and thumb.
With a laugh and a shaking of his hand I had to inform him that I wasn’t busking merely an artist, his insistence that I had earned it came from his heart as he explained that he passed many a busker and ignored them, they could “afford a violin or a cello”, he mused, I knew the buskers he was referring to but said nothing, do me a drawing he said, I drew the green and yellow mood ring complete with ear-lobe, a real and honest commission for a fair price.
He went on to say that he himself had been down as far as a man could go and there was a way out for people in difficulties, “if they were only to open their eyes, if they don’t, it is down to them and their fault”; there you sit, sketchbook in hand and bottle of milk beside you, keep the money, I could only smile and shake his hand bid him farewell and thankyou.
To add to my good fortune I was also given a hardly read today’s local newspaper.
