• How to live with less money, to forgo people’s judgments regarding how you appear, which for many seems to be of primary importance, how do they look and what do they have, car, clothes, house, where are they on the ladder of success.

    We’ve been conditioned to give our time and concern to meeting the assumed expectations of the people around us, incessantly worrying, spending money and performing so society and other people will validate us and we feel worthwhile.

    But what about kindness and compassion towards ourselves, each other and our environment?

    Not much about puppets here, but it will come, for now I’m just learning to live as a pilgrim, on the way, how to be free and not so affected by others, whilst aiming to have a positive effect on others, i.e. to give without expecting……

  • found in splodges and scrawles, the challenge is to let go of having to give any a purpose, aimlessly wandering is joyful and relaxing, to set a goal, and push towards it, is constricting and stressing, but I feel both are necessary, to have a sense of doing something of worth.

  • These are based on poses drawn by the Japanese artist Hokusai’s, from his book of instructional brush drawings, which he created for students.

  • Odd as two hills!