Pain of Mind

A sounding board for my musings and thoughts. (www.varisa.org)

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Zeitgeist-1

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Acracy band w/new members

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#gift_ed #gifted #wearit #woreit (at Chicago metropolitan area) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMhp8CaF9jW/?igshid=1c6ozfp5drkki

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Rough Sketch-1 #ballpointpen #whitepen #woman #art #ink #dailyart #daily #fall #chicago #drawing #drawthisinyourstyle #drawings https://www.instagram.com/p/CHyBkQ_Fuyw/?igshid=14xtb8279on5z

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Getting reacquainted with crow quill & ink & pen. 9”x12”. #ink #pen #drawing #watercolor paper #art #woman #texture #crosshatching #blackandwhitedrawing #daily #dailyart https://www.instagram.com/p/CGsb7R6lj7P/?igshid=8435mqi4c3xx

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The road home-2 #sketch #art #drawing #muse #musings #graphic #graphite #paper #male #daily #hottopic #hotpink (at Queen of Heaven Cemetery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBDk2efFYFm/?igshid=tx1io19w50yz

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#change #change #change (at Queen of Heaven Cemetery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CA8FN9eFOGr/?igshid=1rqydv8z2fdja

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The Road Home-2 #sketch #sketchbook #sketching #graphite #paper #man #daily #dailymotivation #art #hühner https://www.instagram.com/p/CAtWDJvl0Iy/?igshid=btc4mkth01tv

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The Road Home-1 #sketch #drawing #graphite #paper #art #dailyart #man #suit (at Queen of Heaven Cemetery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAtVXV0FsXk/?igshid=kinn2cbehdn9

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Profile-1 #photography #art #light #dark #shadow #face #profile #daily #head #man #digital #bored https://www.instagram.com/p/B_m7tfVliye/?igshid=i8vk0xfv1qht

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Excerpts From the Scrolls of the Exile

Excerpt from Marvel’s Fallen Angels issue #3

Writer - Bryan Hill

Artist -  Szymon Kudranski

Colorist - Frank D’Armata

Letterer - Joe Sabino

Designer - Tom Muller

Cover Artist - Ashley Witter

Part-5

You must not listen.

Comfort is not safety.  Comfort is a thing to fear.  All that challenges you is not your enemy.  The firm hand strikes, but it can also hold you at the cliff.  The soft hand comforts, but you will slip through its grasp.  Civilization will teach that comfort is the only goal.  Comfort of body.  Comfort of mind.  This is the path of defeat.  This is the banishment of your own power.  Those who wrap you in comfort seek to destroy you.  They will praise you when you fear the world.  They will hunt you when hunt your fear.  Be naked in the coldest day of winter so that you can love the warmth of the sun.  Lay your body on stone so you can love the embrace of hay.  Let adversity teach you.  The hands of the forger must be firm and relentless, for the most important moment of the sword is the moment of tempering.  This is tamashii o ireru.  This is when soul is put into the blade.  What you choose will forge you.  

And no sword can be forged twice.  

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Excerpts From the Scrolls of the Exile

Excerpt from Marvel’s Fallen Angels issue #3

Writer - Bryan Hill

Artist -  Szymon Kudranski

Colorist - Frank D’Armata

Letterer - Joe Sabino

Designer - Tom Muller

Cover Artist - Ashley Witter

Part-4

May these words teach you your shape.  May you be alone.  May you be hunted. May you be free.  

it is a time of false leaders, false nations and false gods.  Men will come to convince you there is no evil, nor is there good.  They will make one the other and destroy both.  They will use the word “peace” to mean war.  They will use the word “freedom” to mean slavery.  They will blind you to what you know to be true until you no longer trust yourself.  

You must not listen. 

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Excerpts From the Scrolls of the Exile

Excerpt from Marvel’s Fallen Angels issue #3

Writer - Bryan Hill

Artist -  Szymon Kudranski

Colorist - Frank D’Armata

Letterer - Joe Sabino

Designer - Tom Muller

Cover Artist - Ashley Witter

Part-3

The butterfly must forget the worm.

I write this in exile.  Once I lived in the palm of the hand.  Once I was the weapon of the hand.  Once I smothered my onw  will to serve the will of others. I am alone. I am hunted.  I am free.  If you have found these words, then you were meant to find them.  if I am dead and only these words remain. then that is what i have given.  That is my purpose.  

May these words teach you your shape.  May you be alone.  May you be hunted.  May you be free.  

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Excerpts From the Scrolls of the Exile

Excerpt from Marvel’s Fallen Angels issue #3

Writer - Bryan Hill

Artist -  Szymon Kudranski

Colorist - Frank D’Armata

Letterer - Joe Sabino

Designer - Tom Muller

Cover Artist - Ashley Witter

Part-2

The only faith you need is faith in yourself.

You have the power to change yourself.  If there is will, there is the possibility of change.  Any moment given is enough time to change.  It is your right to seek experiences that will transform you.  It is your right to evolve.  Be not tethered to those who want time to stand still.  Sever what binds you to those unwilling to accept your will to change.  All that you have acquired you can lose and live with purpose.  All that you have lost can be replaced by righteous action.  What you have is nothing when considering what you can become.  Turn your mind to what you seek for yourself.  Turn your back on what holds you to this moment.  The worm has no mind.  It moves by instinct.  When its time has come it will retreat into chrysalis.  It will know no connection.  It will be lost to the world.  When it emerges it will be transformed. No longer will it crawl.  It will fly.  It will have  been a worm.  It is a butterfly.  Only through pure commitment to change can it see the sky.  What remains is a dead shell.  A nothing.  The past.  The former life.

The Butterfly must forget the worm. 

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Excerpts From the Scrolls of the Exile

Excerpt from Marvel’s Fallen Angels issue #3

Writer - Bryan Hill

Artist -  Szymon Kudranski

Colorist - Frank D’Armata

Letterer - Joe Sabino 

Designer - Tom Muller

Cover Artist - Ashley Witter

Part-1

Many will have words about killing.  Few will know what it is to kill.  Be not judged by minds that do not know.  Do not allow what you have felt and seen and caused to be imprisoned by their thoughts.  Remember they know nothing but the pain of their own weakness.  Your strength is a mirror they wish to shatter.  Deny them power over you.  if you must be alone, then you must be alone.  No relationship, no community, no family is worth the negation of what you are.  When you are certain, be certain.  Strike when you believe you must and always seek to finish your opponent. 

The only faith you need is faith in yourself. 

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Legacy Black #european #slipcase #design #music #rocknroll #prog #rock #cd #digitalmusic #daily #art (at Amsterdam) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9pnesVBKOB/?igshid=xouvlgwklpz5

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Chicago-2 #city #architecture #illinois #church #cityscape #cityphotography #washingtonstreet #dailycenter #juryduty #daily #march #gothic #gotham #hotel (at Daily Center @ Court) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9nBOSEhQ--/?igshid=o49va1uglq03