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"Man makes a clever face and talks about being lord on Earth. And at the same time he doesn’t even know where to begin with his own body: he watches sports on television and defends himself saying that everyone else does it too."

- Homeless Kodo


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What I am up to now

Introduction

This is my proverbial jump onto the band-wagon of the “now page”, which Mr. Derek Sivers wrote about.

Now

As of the date 14th November 2018 A.D., I’m engaged in part-time employment in the kitchen of a restaurant of “Italian casual dining”.

I decided to work part-time instead of full-time because I still want to commit to volunteering. What kind of volunteering? I am helping out with the administrative tasks of running a soup kitchen, of sorts, for migrant-workers in Singapore. I am volunteering with a non-profit organisation. More info here

What makes me want to do the above?

I want to please my god, so both of the efforts above are what I feel called to do after reading the Bible, where I can find out about what my god likes and doesn’t like.

I’ve discovered that art (as in art-making) helps me process my experiences, including emotions and states of being, and in this direction, I’ve made a few paintings and put them up for sale (on an online store).

I want to stay tuned to the mystery behind (the impulse and/or need of) art-making - this means I have to maintain a position/stance of patience, and even surrender, to see what comes up and when it comes up.

I entrust this matter, as with all matters in my life, to my god, who is good, and whose ways are blameless.

More concretely, this means being aware - developing an intuition, even - for what feeds my art - as an aside, perhaps, this is perhaps related to the somewhat unsavoury character that has been attributed to artists in general, such as Hesse’s portrayal of an artist-womaniser in the fictional story of ‘Narcissus and Goldmund’ - and giving myself permission to pursue it/those, whatever it/they may be.

Somewhat related to my paintings are a visual journal that I am maintaining (and hosting on Tumblr). It’s been suggested to me, by an art-therapist, to keep one; if my god is willing, it will be inspiration that a future me could come across.