Apperception

My elder daughter has a talent in making small films (small so far! :P) and I am not the only one who thinks like this.  Although it took some time to forgive her camera for taking me from below in a way that it seems I am talking to the ceiling, I can surely recommend her next small film, where I am not inside (how lucky can you be?!).
It's called "Apperception" and it worths seeing it, not only because I am not there but mainly because it has a message to share.  I would tell you what this message is for me if I wouldn't believe that discovering it is something personal and that new messages can come up in an open mind.
An other good thing is that, although the previous video (with me!) was in greek and a non greek person would need to develop his/her imagination, not to mention intuition, to get something from it, this new one is in english and can save time and mental efforts to be watched...

hey, me on youtube :P

My elder daughter is a student at Aristoteleio University of Thessaloniki, Greece.  Three years now.  And she loves her studies.  Lately, she had to do some videos as lesson assignments.  In one of them she decided to get an interview from me about my relationship with my younger daughter.
I have to admit that we are a strange family.  Although I divorced with both their fathers, the three of us, as a group, we are very close and tight and the fingers of a hand that can easily become a strong fist (well, a fist with three fingers! :P or whatever...) and at the same time being, each of us, very independent and well with each ones separate activities.
The video, although I talk about my younger daughter, shows this element pretty well.  Congrats, daughta! You got it! ...as always, haha.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzVgkYBWUPs&feature=relmfu

I believe...

I am vegan for years and I support this way of thinking with all my heart.  More than half a year ago I bought a book that I was to read and kept postponing as usual.  Its title is "The Liberation of Animals" by Peter Singer.  It helped the animal liberation movement start as the first ring at the domino chain that created a lot of animal right organizations and similar stuff groups and even helped new laws to come up in come countries about animal's fair treatment.  Today I found it in my library and I felt it was waiting for this moment.  Then I fell on a site.  The text below is not mine but I want to share it. :)

I Believe.....

I believe in Ahimsa and that we have no right to harm other animals. I believe in abolitionism and that we have no right to use and enslave any animal; human or nonhuman. I believe in nonspeciesism and that we have no right to unfair and irrelevant prejudice towards a victim based on species membership. I believe in 'Reverence for Life' and that we have no right to disrespect others as in exploiting, assaulting, and killing. I believe in 'Animal Rights' and that we have no right to deny any sentient animal the fundamental right of bodily integrity from human harm or ownership - as we generally give to all human animals, but need to extend to all other species of feeling, breathing, conscious animals, too. 


I believe in picking fresh vegetables or tree-ripened-offered fruit, and that we have no right to steal our food by believing that barbaric slaughterhouse-sourced animal flesh and secretions are food fit for consumption. Animals are not food. I believe in Truth and that we have no right to wrong others or the planet that sustains all life. I believe in the Golden Rule and that we have no right to do to other animals that which we would not want done to us. 


I believe in Love and that we have no right to exemplify such a lack of love towards other creatures; especially those who would never think of harming us. Humans oppress the helpless – because they can - not because they have to. 


I believe in Evolution and that we have no right to hinder its progress of achieving a more civilized way of living on Earth. I believe in Peace and that we have no right to inflict violence on anyone. I believe in the Vegan Ideal and that we have no right to do anything but to try to live up to it as best we can.  I'm a believer.

http://thevegantruth.blogspot.gr/search/label/I%20Believe....

mushrooms

They look so much better than in photo.  I just wonder if there is a chance to learn how to make good photos of my paintings in this lifetime or I will have to wait for the next... 

Yes, they are mushrooms at the basis of a tree in a wonderful green forest.  I wish you could see their real colors.

oil on canvas