illustration Friday_suspend

An entry for Illustration Friday ~ weeks topic: Suspend

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best buddy

 currently on my sketchbook:

...my best buddy.
We have had a great run today @ the oval  ground..

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across the window

In a cold rainy Monday morning today i made this watercolor painting from the thousand of photographs i took from my Dutch Holidays back then. The view outside the guest room of my godfather's home sweet home was a beautiful sight i always look at especially at the start of the cold autumn morning there.  It brings me so much lovely memories of Holland to look back.

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"There is more to life than increasing it's speed." ~ Mahatma Gandhi

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Remembering Pap

 

Remembering a very special extraordinary man of my life..my late Papa's 62nd birthday.

Miss you so much Pap..love you always.

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diary of jane

my entry for Illustration Friday : SECRET

"Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning

that diary into the best story you possibly can" - Douglas Pagels

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Extraordinary Remarkable Gentlemen

 

Back in Netherlands for my Dutch holidays, one day @ Dad's home with his eldest son 

& wife watching through good old photo slides of him from his short stay in the Philippines.

 He was 28 then as an exchange student in USC-TC-WRC- in the 80's.

 One slide shows a baptismal ceremony with a young good looking tall Dutch gentleman 

over-towering the rest of the crowd, attentively looking down to the baby.

 My godfather spoke: Do you know who that baby is Mary Jane? That is you! 

And that is how i look after you from the start when you are a baby until now".. 

For some reasons - after 31 years that was the first time i saw my baptismal pictures.
 I would have to be grateful to my late Papa as well..for he makes sure that when he is gone
 for good on earth. I still have a father to fill in his shoe.

My godfather has  been my guiding light. He never failed to gave me so much 
lessons and inspiration in life though he is far across the globe. I am too blessed to have Godfather 
like this extraordinary remarkable gentleman. 

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY Dad! Zorg goed voor jezelf. :)

Happy Father's Day to all Dad! 

You are greatly honored today and always for the HERO that you are in our lives.

 "My Father gave me the greatest gift

 anyone could give another person, he believed in me"..-Jim Valvano

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