Sentry Skippers

Dr Abe V Rotor

Your dainty wings spread shining,

sowing tiny dots in waning light;

if my evening is your morning,

would you be my sentry tonight?

Where have all the Gardens Gone?

 Dr Abe V Rotor 

  

 

Death of a Garden.  Acrylic paintings by the author, 2015

Where have all the gardens gone, 

    the butterflies and honeybees, 

dancing and riding on the breeze,

    dewdrops sparkling in the sun?

Where have all the ladies gone,

    in "loves-me-loves-me-not" game, 

though lose or gain it's the same,

    flower and love knitted as one? 

Where have all the children gone,

    reminiscent of old Pied Piper,

lured to a new land somewhere,

    and never again to be found?

Where have all the good life gone,  

    Nature's gift to the living world 

bound by a collective accord?

    Lo! to man - the prodigal son. ~

A School of Green Fish

Dr Abe V Rotor

A School of Green Fish in acrylic (20"x24") AVR 2015

If by being green means mimicry to vegetation,

to defend yourself from predation;

to be bold among your enemies and your kin, 

but It’s just a flimsy shield of your skin.

If by being green you capture the rays of the sun,

to make food and oxygen for everyone,  

you dream of youthfulness like the silly Sybil;

but only plants have the chlorophyll. 

  If by being green you keep company with the young,

with your brood and the children around;

to be different from others the key to diversity,

it’s also the passport to liberty. ~  

Life is Synergy

Dr Abe V Rotor

Jungle in acrylic, AVR

Life ‘s more than the sum of its parts,
as each creature comes and departs;
synergy the key to unity,
diversity and harmony
and seat of a great mystery.~

Don't be a Victim of Heart Disease, the Number One Killer

Back to health regimen after the holidays 

 Dr Abe V Rotor

Living with Nature - School on Blog

I have known people - a number of them relatives, 
co-workers and former classmates - who died of heart disease. 

If you have positive family history, you are a potential candidate to heart attack and its complications. Like Damocles Sword, you know the rules to live a long and happy life. There are ten factors you should be able to manage.

First,  Don't smoke.  Just don't. 

Second, Exercise.  Be active physically.  Get out of your comfort zone. 

Third, Reduce cholesterol level. Take less of meat and more fruits and vegetables.  

Fourth, Never indulge in drinking.  

                                                                                       

 Healthy heart angiogram (National Geographic)

Fifth, Live on healthy diet. Watch out your glucose level.

Sixth,  Maintain normal blood pressure always. 

  

Seventh, Don't be overweight.  Reduce. 

Eighth, Have regular medical checkup.

Ninth, Set a goal for your career and family.

Tenth, Have a positive outlook in life always. Reach out for life's meaning.  

Why don't you download this article, print and pin it as a daily reminder?

Flow gently, sweet little stream

Flow gently, sweet little stream

Painting and poem by Abe V Rotor

Dr Abe V Rotor

Flow gently, sweet little stream in acrylic (2' x 4') by AVR 2012

Flow gently, sweet little stream,
     and I will sing you a praise;
Flow gently down the little valley,
     and I will go with your ease.

Flow gently sweet little stream,
     for you have time to tarry;
Flow gently around rocks and hills,
     meander and be merry.

Flow gently, sweet little stream,
     and do not grow up too soon;
Flow gently with the watershed,
     catching the rains in monsoon.

Flow gently, sweet little stream,
     living link of sky and sea;
Flow gently among the creatures
     in your care, play and be free. 

Flow gently, sweet little stream,
     away from the hands of men;
Flow gently in this hidden den,
     this lovely patch of Eden. ~

Waterlilies - Monet's ultimate masterpiece in the twilight of his life

"I want the unobtainable. Other artists paint a bridge, a house, a boat, and that's the end. They are finished. I want to paint the air which surrounds the bridge, the house, the boat, the beauty of the air in which these objects are located, and that is nothing short of impossible." Claude Monet

Dr Abe V Rotor 
Acknowledgment: photos from the Internet, Wikipedia. 

Waterlilies - Claude Monet's Signature

Claude Monet (1840-1926); murals in a museum enshrine his fame.  

Monet painted his famous murals Waterlilies towards the end his long productive life as an impressionist. He worked with fading eyesight and in frail health. Few men have shown such an extraordinary feat.  Among them was the great modern painter Pablo Picasso. Ernest Hemingway's Nobel prize winning novel, The Old Man and the Sea, pictures such rare quality with sweet irony of anonymity.

What a genius to make a masterpiece with the last rays of the sun, 
drawing each like thread and weaving the aging colors of rainbow; 
while thousands at their bidding rise early to catch the rising sun,
aiming at fortune - and failing - search it at the end of the rainbow. ~

  

 
  

  

For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.

When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, house, a field....Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives your own naive impression of the scene before you.

Paint what you really see, not what you think you ought to see; not the object isolated as in a test tube, but the object enveloped in sunlight and atmosphere, with the blue dome of Heaven reflected in the shadows.

 Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it. Claude Monet

Oscar-Claude Monet (1840-1926) was a founder of French Impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. November 1840, Paris, France