Timothy J. Pruitt's Blog, page 195
July 6, 2020
iPainting Elk Digital Etching
This iPainting is a Digital Etching of an Elk, based on the metal etchings that I find fascinating.
July 5, 2020
Grateful Adopted Parent
Ashley showed me a video of a family who had adopted, and flew home. It stirred up so many emotions. We started looking at pictures of #NicholasAsherPruitt, and his first photo at home.
I will forever be grateful that God birthed our son through the gift of #adoption. It not only gave us our son, but it taught us to treasure every moment. They are fleeting, and they are precious. I’m a proud #adopted father!
July 4, 2020
Land Of Voices
As I’m writing this, fireworks are going off behind me. I can’t help but think of another American, who was probably like me, a Husband and a Father. Yet, the noises behind him weren’t fireworks, they were cannon fire. Tonight I’ll go to bed, thankful for that other American, who left his farm, to carry a musket.
I don’t know if he returned home after the war, or if he lost his life at Yorktown. All I know is, because of him, and countless patriots like that minuteman, I am a free man today. In the Revolutionary War, there were both scholars, and illiterate men, poor farmers, as well as men who had everything to lose. However, all of them together, risked everything, for the dream of a free nation.
A country ruled, not by the mood of a king, but a republic of voices. Yes voices, they believed that America was to be a land of voices. Where all men, regardless of background, would be able to freely speak from their hearts. Sometimes it’s messy, sometimes it’s hard, but always, it’s worth it.
That’s the secret, that’s what drove men to hug their wives, and kiss their babies possibly goodbye. Because they knew that, even if their own voices were silenced, their families would have a voice. Today we live in an America full of voices.
Sometimes those voices argue, often they disagree, but thank God, and our founding fathers, that we have the freedom to lift our voice. We are blessed to be able to disagree, to argue, and to peacefully co-exist. I don’t know how this year will turn out, but I do know this.
I know that I will always be grateful, that the grandson of a coal miner, can say those precious words. I pledge allegiance to the flag, of the United States of America. Happy Fourth Of July to all Americans. May your voices ring with freedom, all across the land, as loudly, as the fireworks are bright.
July 3, 2020
iPainting Grizzly Oak
The fourth in our #PruittWrites #Grizzly series, Grizzly Oak.
Poem The River Of Freedom
Thirteen colonies saw a need
Voices did both shout and whisper
There is a way, there is a river
A path to a better day
They pledged their coins
To unite under freedom’s creed
Hopes, blood, futures inter joined
To share battles, fears, and fight
Until bathed in liberty’s light
Arriving at a new day
When cannons stopped
Smoke had cleared
They opened heart and ear
To seek the better, for all to hear
We follow freedom this day
Now their work is history
Their legacy a gift to you and me
They pursued, they did not know
Where it led, how it would go
Yet all risked yesterday, to give us today
iPainting Professor Mole
The fifth in our #PruittWrites #PlayThings series, Professor Mole.
July 2, 2020
iPainting Artist Otter
The fourth in #PruittWrites #Playthings Series, Artist Otter.
July 1, 2020
iPainting An American Bear In Paris
Third in our #PruittWrites #PlayThings series, An American Bear In Paris. We have a Teddy Bear series, but this little guy fit more in with the #PlayThings #Series.
June 30, 2020
iPainting Wilber, The Welsh Rabbit
The second in our #PruittWrites #PlayThings series, Wilbur, The Welsh Rabbit.
June 29, 2020
iPainting Grizzly Cave
Third in our #Grizzly Series, Grizzly Cave
