Randy Elrod's Blog, page 55
May 14, 2013
Here Bidda Bidda—Top Ten Reasons You Should Bid For My Original Italian Work Of Art
[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
May 8, 2013
Why Tolstoy’s War and Peace Should Be Your Summer Reading
[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
May 1, 2013
A Few Thoughtful (and Candid) Observations On My 55th Birthday
[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
April 27, 2013
Island Girl
12″x 16″ Original Watercolor and graphite on handmade paper
Archival Giclee and Standard Prints available
“I go to Florida sometimes for vacation. I actually really like Florida. It’s a weird place, it’s surreal. It’s so close, but you feel like you’re in another world or on an island.”—Jemima Kirke
April 19, 2013
He Has My Blood
There lives a boy
so young, so tender
across the void
He has my blood.
He lives with joy
absence, engendered
tho’ heart deployed
He has my love.
There lives a boy
his daughter’s father
hope ne’er destroyed
He has my blood.
He lives a hoy
life flows like water
old self alloyed
He has my love.
April 18, 2013
Why I’m Better Informed And More Healthy Than You After 8 Years Of No MainStream Media
When news of the Boston Marathon tragedy broke, I saw it first on Twitter. For some inane reason I felt the need to turn on our television and tune to CNN. However, my father-in-law was visting, and knowing he is a FOX News guy, I reluctantly searched the DirecTV guide and tuned to the “fair and balanced” channel.
After an almost eight year news fast (I stopped consuming mainstream media news in 2005 after my disgust at the grandstanding and misreporting of Hurricane Katrina), I expected the...
You Are What You Eat — My Latest Watercolor
16″ x 20″ Original Watercolor and Graphite on handmade paper
Purchase Original, Standard Prints & Ready to Hang Gallery Wraps HERE
”Tell me what you eat and I shall tell you what you are.”
– Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
April 17, 2013
My Latest Recipe: Pecan Encrusted Red Snapper w Remoulade Sauce
Remoulade (serves 4)
Ingredients:
3/4 cup mayonnaise
2 tablespoons cocktail sauce
1 tablespoon prepared horseradish
1 tablespoon chili sauce
2 teaspoons Creole mustard
2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 teaspoon Louisiana-style hot sauce, or to taste
2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1-1/4 medium scallions, chopped
2 teaspoons chopped fresh parsley
2 teaspoons minced celery
1 small clove garlic, minced
1/8 teaspoon chili powder
1/4 teaspoon salt, or to taste
1/8 teaspoon grou...
April 15, 2013
Ten Words That Have Changed My Life Forever
When we encounter these words, we are always faced with a task. That task demands something more of us than we are willing to give. Without embracing these words in our life vocabulary and experience, we will never grow into maturity.
We all have a fantasy of arriving at a conflict-free plateau or a sunlit glen without struggle, without the demand for increasingconsciousness, without being pulled deeper and further than we wish to travel.
Interestingly, there is such a place—it is called Deat...
April 11, 2013
10 Ways To Live, Work and Love Better
Over the past two very difficult years, I am learning that a person with a healthy idea of self can manage not only the routine ups and downs of daily life but also serious crises as they develop. Social, personal, financial and professional crises, while always upsetting to one’s normal pattern of life, are not paralyzing or totally defeating. In fact, we should grow and mature through crises, coming out of them richer, more understanding, and compassionate human beings. In biblical terms,...
