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⚪️🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣⚫️ NEW DIRECTION Ed. No. 170 - "YOU'VE GOTTA HAVE HEART"

"WHO WAS TAB HUNTER?"

Artwork: "TO BE, OR NOT TO BE?" [Detail] / Artist: Neville Williams / ©️ Arts Law Australia

Oh yes we all have a shadow. Many are just discovering this with great surprise.

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what the artwork is addressing please go to:-

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A commentary on doing things from the heart.

Recently I was asked by someone to do an artwork for them. They offered to pay.

But I didn't want to do it.

I said to them that I cannot do it at this time.

And it's not like this is a person who I don't like. In fact this person is one of those who deserves positive response. They are a more than decent human being.

My excuse currently is that I am processing the grief of losing my Mother. And that is true. But the deeper truth is that I'm just not a giving person by nature. Never have been. It's not that I'm a lazy or uncaring person. And it's not that I don't feel anything. Quite the opposite I feel too much of what is going on in this world. And it is wearying. Human stupidity knows no bounds.

I learnt a very expensive lesson in my life many years back by saying YES when I should have had the backbone and heart to say NO. I was burnt to a blackened crisp with humiliation when I failed. The problem was my heart wasn't in it from the start.

I didn't know myself well enough.

Someone I know says that you've got to know your limitations. It is true too that you've also got to know when to take a risk. And that's about self growth. (Something that many left behind years ago)

I am a person to be truthful who neither gives a lot nor takes a lot. And that's OK too.

While we're in the confessional I too am a projects person rather than a people person. It's not that I don't like people. I just don't have the infinite capacity of patience needed to put up with all the human foibles and game playing - all the cant and the can't.

My creative focus over the next 1-2 years will be on planning a retrospective of my Artworks and arranging my migration to New Zealand. Both big projects.

I'm learning to actually look after myself now. Others might do likewise! If we all actually did take more responsibility for ourselves it would be a much happier world.

Too many Huckleberry Finn's in the world presently. That is those who sit by the river bank on their backsides dangling their fishing rods in the waterhole to see what comes by while proselytising their vacuous world view. They want it all easy. Life my friends is something that needs to be participated in with all its ups and downs. It does take courage.

If you really don't want to do something have the courage to say NO. And if you want to contribute something then find the courage to say YES and commit to it. And understand that failing is part of the process of moving towards success. I always admire those who can pick themselves up brush themselves off and start all over again.

I do find wishy washy people soooo very tedious and annoying.

They are like ships without rudders.

If you do say YES just make sure that "You've gotta have heart" with you. We now live in a time when there are those people who have actually convinced themselves that they are contributing something but their very own manufactured ego has tricked them into packaging 'taking' as 'giving' (at least in their befuddled mindset). If there's no heart in what you are doing then the result is emptiness. The pretenders won't admit that to themselves because this would shatter their fragile sense of self.

Many hold onto their uncertain self value with white knuckle fear. They "think" they know!!! An absence of humility can leave you blind to truth. The full vacuum of arrogance in this world is staggering.

When things come crashing down people wonder what happened. This is the result of nothing more than losing sight of one's own r-e-a-l-i-t-y. Living in a fantasy world is a very dangerous game that people play with themselves.

Much of Tab Hunter's life was lived in a stultifying prison of the narrow mindset of the times. Have things changed all that much?

It is heartening to see that in at least the latter part of his life Tab Hunter found his foundation and lived a little truth.

Neville Williams