The Basey Vineyard Captain
This is a sketch I did of my dad for the wine labels I made for him for his birthday. He's been growing grapes for a while so I designed and printed him labels and sent them to him. This image is just really small in the corner of the label and it says "Jack Basey Seal of Approval". My Dad cracks me up... He looked so stern in every single picture I could find of him. I darkened his hair on the actual label. My dad does not have white hair... At least not yet... :)Anyway, I found this cool website that sells home winemaking kits. The kits were really expensive, so instead I sent him a bunch of wine bottles and corks. My dad is so hard to buy for, but I think this time I might have gotten it right. He grows grapes, he loves wine... It'll be perfect!
posted by saucybritches at
1/18/2006 03:57:00 PM
5 Comments:
Ha ha...that looks so much like dad :)
that was a great idea!!!
This is a wonderful picture of Jack. He is a precious person and somehow you capture that. He is so smart and cares so much and you can see it in his eyes. The stern look shows the load he carries.
I now know that it is true... My father's stern countenance is something I appreciate. :) I know the truths behind it...
Hi again Erin. I have been thinking about you a great deal the last few days and hope you will forgive me for posting AGAIN so soon. I read and reread your information and I see that you are very, very gifted. I also see that "real life" nags at you - as it does at everyone who breathes. "Restlessness is a sign of life." Only the dead are not restless. Gaining a level of comfort with our restless spirit is very difficult - but important. However, no one ever quite masters it. It breathes as life and love breathe and moves in and out.
You have just taken a great step forward in your life - you left a solid, successful career and entered new territory. This type of a move creates a vacuum (not a vacuum clearner - but an empty space pulling thing into it much like a black hole in the universe!) What you allow to enter this empty space is very significant and life altering. It will shape your life as you move forward into the next phase. God, the creater of all, has created this principle. Animals don't have much choice about what fills their vacuum - their restless empty space. They fill it with sustainence and patterns of reproduction and survival - evolution. But humans have been given the magnificant gift of choice and reasoning. They get to choose those things with which to fill their lives. But never will they be satisfied totally - because the vacuum in our heart is God shaped and we will always be desiring to be closer to God - to be more like Him. But we can allow things to come into our life that will bring God's peace - things that are God shaped. And interestingly, since God has a specific purpose for each human born, one feels more and more satisfied as they move into his purpose and allow the empty, sucking space to be filled with things that fullfil their calling for life. Every tiny step toward Him brings peace. (Not peace as in everything is easy - but a calmness.)
I can see that creative work is your gift and calling. And when you are moving that direction, you feel a little better. But remember, you must not ignore your spirit. Every human was given one - sometimes I questions whether it is a blessing or a curse. But, I know that you understand that there is really only one Rock of Refuge. So stand there, and develop you gifts.
Love you little one. You are one of the beautiful things on the earth.
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