The Lighter Side of Human Nature - Feeling Great with Great Men in the Museum

                                      The Lighter Side of Human Nature 

Feeling Great with Great Men in the Museum 

(Madame Tussauds Singapore)

"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained." - Mark Twain

 

Dr Abe V Rotor

Author receives a flying kick from Bruce Lee 

Make-believe kick bears imagined pain,

    that lasts in the mind, or will never end,

from the world's greatest martial artist 

    on screen, on the ring, and a friend. 

  

Author and His Holiness Mahatma Gandhi

A friendly tap on his shoulder, this man single handedly

fought an empire and won for India her independence;

messiah, guru, mahatma which means "Great Soul,"

"Man of the Millennium" - titles all of greatest essence.

Author with Tiger Woods - too close for comfort 

Greatest golfer at one time coming back 

for another yellow jersey, 

he may not get it, but his name in history

    remains an indelible memory.

Author mimics Barrack Obama with folded arms

Folded arms may mean confidence, self esteem, 

     independence and righteousness; 

but smile, body language and grooming may  

     simply mean friendliness and presence.

With Mohammed Ali, greatest heavyweight boxer of all time 

                   Look what I got just passing by a great boxer 

 dreaming "I'm the greatest!"

a knockdown for sure if indeed it was real.

lucky I survived the test.   

                                           With South Africa's greatest hero, Nelson Mandela

Compared with this great man,

I'm Gulliver in Brobdingnag;

Humility and greatness as one -

borders that of a living god. ~

Are your eyes tired?

 Are your eyes tired?

"Look deep into this image painted by one whose eyes have long sought for peace and rest through some connection with Nature." - avr

 

Dr Abe V Rotor

Are your eyes tired? in acrylic (33.5" x 24") by AV Rotor 2025

Painting on display at the Living with Nature Center, San Vicente, Ilocos Sur

Are your eyes tired of too much exposure on the computer, day and night, hour after hour, rushing up school assignments, work-at-home deadlines, tracking down news here and abroad, or simply playing games which is actually a straining pastime?    

Are your eyes tired from heavy schedule in office, at the workplace, driving through heavy traffic beating rush hour and the Bundy clock, for hours, going out and back home, at daybreak and after work, and doing errands in between?   

Are your eyes tired of too much drama on stage and screen, audio-visons virtually without end, fiesta or no fiesta, searching for apparition in the sky, braving the camera and floodlights, looking into the lens for the unseen, and now, with AI magical power?

Are your eyes tired of blinding and blinking lights on the highway complex of vehicles, floodlights and billboards, in restaurants and bars, even in the park you think relaxing to spend a weekend with your family, or simply alone for reflection?

Are your eyes tired of reading novels, printed or e-book versions by your favorite authors like Hemingway, for contemporary realism; Pasternak, for refined radicalism; Mark Twain, for boys' adventure; Jules Verne, for early futurism? 

Are your eyes tired of the imagery of Future Shock and Eco-Spasm by Alvin Toffler, of Uncle Tom's Cabin in the age of slavery in the US, of Ann Frank's Diary of a lonely and frightful world in Nazi Germany, of Orwellian Big Brother syndrome in "1984"?  

Are your eyes tired, seeing not only real vision but after-visions accumulated through hours and hours of concentration in school, office, home, and residues of visual experiences surreptitiously stored in your Jungian psyche?   

Look deep into this image painted by one whose eyes have long sought for peace and rest, for connection with Nature in the sky and into the deep, in the microcosm of a leaf, filaments of algae, rootlets, buds, myriads of unseen mysteries of creation. 

And in seeing all these, you may find your way back to the beauty, innocence and joy, to the simplicity and harmony of life and living. ~             

 

 

Details of Are your eyes tired? painting. 
 

Left, author and artist (right) poses with a fellow senior citizen and friend, 

Gerry Singson. Students from the University of Northern Philippines 

on a study tour at the Living with Nature Center. The painting, cautions those on 

the "busy lane" to slow down a bit and reflect on the lighter side of life. ~

The Lighter Side of Human Nature on Marriage and Married Life according to some "great" men

The Lighter Side of Human Nature

on Marriage and Married Life 

according to some great men

"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards." —Benjamin Franklin

                        Researched and Complied by Dr Abe V Rotor

1. "My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met." - Alec Baldwin

2. “Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.”—George Bernard Shaw

3. "A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong."- Barack Obama

4. "I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years." - Rudy Giuliani

5. “Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes” - Jim Carrey

6. “Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn’t work out, you haven’t wasted the whole day.”—Mickey Rooney

7. "By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher." - Socrates

8. "Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays." - George W. Bush

9. "There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage." - Michael Jordan

10. "I've had bad luck with all my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn’t.” The third gave me more children!" - Donald Trump

11. “Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”—Benjamin Franklin

12. "After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together." - Al Gore

13. “Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.”—George Bernard Shaw

14. "My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met." - Alec Baldwin

15.  “The most important four words for a successful marriage: ‘I’ll do the dishes.’”—Anonymous

16. "I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me." - Bill Clinton

17.  “I now pronounce you man and wife. You may now change your Facebook status.”—Anonymous ~

18. “Marriage is the bond between a person who never remembers anniversaries and another who never forgets them.”—Ogden Nash

19. "My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me." —Winston Churchill

20. “Some mornings I wake up grouchy. Other mornings I just let him sleep.”—Unknown. Marriage humor of great men and women. ~

Acknowledgement with gratitude and apologies to all concerned, and sources. - avr