Christians, be Salt and light to a dying world.

One of the things that I read about in the news is when so-called Christians "apologize" for the word of GOD {The Bible.} If you call yourself Christian, and your primary goal is to please the world, you are not Christian. Christians are called to be the salt and the light for the world. Salt in a wound, hurts. Light to darkness is startling. I quote from the Scriptures as JESUS spoke to His followers:

"Ye are the salt of the earth; but if the salt have lost its savour [taste] wherewith shall it be salted? It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and trodden under foot of men. Ye ae the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel [basket] but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father[GOD] which is in heaven. Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets; I am not come to destroy but to fulfill. For verily, I say unto you, 'til heaven and earth pass [away], one jot or one tittle [bit] shall in no wise pass from the law [of GOD] , till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven;but whosoever shall teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. " Matthew 5: 13-19, King James Holy Bible.

"For what is a man advantaged if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away [into the pit]? For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and My Words [JESUS speaking] of him, shall The Son of Man be ashamed when He shall come into His own glory and in His Father's, and of the holy angels. " Luke 9:25-26, KJV

"These words spake JESUS in the treasury as He taught in the temple, and no man laid hands on him; for his hour was not yet come. then said JESUS again unto them, 'I go my way, and ye shall seek me; and shall die in your sins; whither I go, ye cannot come.'. Then said the Jews, 'will he kill himself?' because he saith "whither I go, ye cannot come'. And He said unto them, 'ye are from beneath; I am from above; ye are of this world: I am not of this world. I said therefore unto you that ye shall die in your sins; for if ye believe not that I AM HE, ye shall die in your sins.' Then said they unto Him, "who art thou?'. And JESUS saith unto them, 'even the same that I said unto you from the beginning. I have many things to say and to judge of you; but HE [GOD] that sent Me is true; and I speak those things which I have heard of HIM. " John 8: 20-26, KJV.

"Ye are My friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you, Henceforth, I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth; but I have called you friends; for all the things that I have heard of my Father [GOD] I have made known unto you. Ye have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you that ye should go and bring forth fruit; and that your fruit should remain; that whatsoever ye shall ask of The FATHER {GOD} in My Name, HE may give it you. These things I command you, that ye love one another. If the world hate you, ye know that it hated Me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because I have chosen you out of the world; therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I said unto you, 'the servant is not greater than the his lord. If they have persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept My saying, they will keep yours also. But all these things will they do unto you for My Name's sake, because they know not HIM that sent Me. If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had [awareness] of sin; but now they have no cloak for their sin. He that hateth Me, hateth my Father also. If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin; but now, they have they both seen and hated both Me and my Father [GOD]. But this cometh to pass, that The Word might be fulfilled as written in their law: 'they hated Me without a cause'. But when The Comforter {Holy Spirit] is come, Whom I will send unto you from The Father [GOD in heaven] even The Spirit of Truth, which proceedeth from The Father, He shall testify of Me. And ye shall also bear witnesses because ye have been with Me from the beginning." John 15: 14-27, KJV.

I ask you to read these scriptures and understand the principles of Christianity from them. Christians are to be:

1) followers of JESUS, learning HIS words and living by them;

2) not focused on pleasing the world [the secular, worldly goals];

3) not trying to 'offend no one';

4) teaching the truth of the Scriptures;

5) lighting a candle wherever they see the darkness of sin;

6) obeying the Commandments of The Lord;

7) bearing fruit that should endure through generations;

8) teaching the commandments of GOD;

9) being ever aware that JESUS is judging them and all people;

10) bearing witness of The LORD JESUS to the world.

If you do not know JESUS as your Saviour, your friend, your Redeemer from the pit of hell, then pray in sincerity to address Him by Name, and ask Him in your own words to reveal HIMSELF to you, to tell you the truth, to save you from your sins. HE will do that in His way and timing.

I am still painting and still blogging and still tweeting. But this post is provoked by news that Christians apologized to perverted people that GOD HMSELF labeled abomination. That is a sin. The scripture that says that is:

"He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to The Lord'. Proverbs 17:15. kjv. For humans to attempt to justify,or excuse what GOD HIMSELF has labeled sin or even worst abomination [meaning they can no longer be redeemed but are doomed to hell] is a serious affront, mockery of GOD's word, and a sin in itself. Christians should never try to appease sinners by denouncing GOD.

Gloria Poole, RN & artist , @ my apt in Missouri; 9:51am; 22-June-2013;

I photographed flowers on walkabout

These are some of the photos I photographed on a couple of days of walkabouts. The landscaping here is getting more beautiful. Missouri is almost as pretty as state of Georgia, but doesn't have as many azaleas as Georgia has. Enjoy looking.

Also, I have tweeted much in the past few days. You could follow me at @gloriapoole [or on other twitter accts of mine also]; or read the content at https://twitter.com/gloriapoole; or on another twitter acct of mine at https://twitter.com/ProlifeNurse.

Gloria Poole aka gloriapoole; gpoole817; gloriapooleRN at yahoo; gloria0817; g-l-o-r-i-a or as title on a blog G-L-O-R-I-A; gloria_poole; gloria.poole; gloriapoole-artist; artist-gloriapoole; gloriapoole-paintings; gloriapoole.RN; Gloria Poole,RN.

Copyright on all art I create and photographs I photograph. At my apt in Missouri; 10:27am, 19 June-2013, Gloria Poole.

Thank GOD for GOOGLE & Picasa

Today, I uploaded some of my photos of art I created, and of genre photos and of photos of me to my Picasa albums. It is necessary to write about it here because I also found an album amongst mine that was not created by me and that should not be included in my albums with my name on it. More on that later*.

You may see my albums that I began in yr 2008 [or 2007] at these sites:

https://picasaweb.com/gloriapoole

https://picasaweb.com/gloria0817

https://picasaweb.google.com/115334933480582884622/PolitickingPaintingAndPhotographyOfGloriaPoole

https://picasaweb.google.com/115334933480582884622/My_original_paintings_I_painted_gloriapoole

https://picasweb.google.com ... also has a total of five albums I created . https://picasaweb.google.com/115334933480582884622

And RSS feed of one of those is:

https://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/base/user/115334933480582884622/albumid/5219156118245298017?alt=rss&kind=photo&hl=en_US;

I updated my Picasa albums listed in my name written as gloriapoole today but haven't yet updated the Picasa album(s) I created on https://picasaweb.com/gloria0817. But will soon.

* footnote:

CAUTION: WARNING! Also if you see an album named "scrapbook" amongst those do NOT open it. Scrapbook is not an album I created and it has content and user names on it I had never seen before,or heard of, and have no idea how or when it got included with my albums; except to say it was a criminal hacker's effort. I do NOT vouch for the users who broke into my account nor for photos or origins or user names in the album= scrapbook. I am adding this paragraph as a warning about it, and for law enforcement since they can track the hackers with the photos that were added by cyber-criminals to my albums.

Gloria Poole, RN and artist; @ my apt in Missouri; 2:20pm; 11-June 2013. Gloria Poole is my real born with name and I was born in the state of Georgia and also educated there several times! I am the white, Christian, single woman [divorced twice] who is a mother and grandmother,blogger, writer, poet, republican, prolifer, R.N. and artist, photographer and whose photo you see on this blog .

Cartooning just for fun

This is a cartoon I drew and painted on sketch [bristol board] for my two tiniest grandchildren who are ages 2 yrs, and 8 months old. I named it "humpty and duck". I have the original [as usual] and I made 2 prints of it for them. Hope you like it. It's a cartoon, and I have done cartooning intermittently since the 1990;s beginning in Atlanta GA in pencils and inks.

Normally I create art of a more serious nature, for instance the 'ethnic paintings" series I painted over several years that includes about 20 paintings in oils and probably about 40 sketches in varied mediums.

Copyright belongs to me Gloria Poole; aka: gloriapoole, gloria0817, gpoole817, gloriapooleRN at yahoo; gloriapoole1749; gloria.poole; gloria_poole; gloria-poole;probably other variations of my real born-with name of Gloria Poole since I have had an online presence since about 1993.

I am the white, Christian, single, woman/mother/RN/artist/writer/blogger/poet/prolifer who was born in Georgia and I currently live in Missouri. But I lived in other states, and in the UK briefly. I have painted/ sketched/ drawn cartoons, sketches, oil paintings since early 1990's on a semi-regular basis; but I actually had some formal training in drawing and mixing oil paints, and also some observation with a professional portrait artist in Atlanta Georgia yrs ago.

Gloria Poole @ my apt in Missouri; 9_June-2013 @ 11:29am.

The Mission of the blog is spreading the gospel and ending abortion as a "right".

I enjoy posting art I create and photos I photograph to my blogs, but do not forget that my main purpose in having blogs, in paying the fees for equipment and telephones and computers is to re-educate the world on the gospel and to promote, push forward the cause of saving the baby humans from premeditated destruction in their mother's uterus [womb].

On the topic of Christian persecution in the U S and world: it is as real as in the days leading up to the Protestant Reformation and perhaps for the same reasons. Those who worship man-made idols or themselves, or human "leaders" battle to stop the word of GOD from being told. JESUS spoke of it, warned of it in the parable of the seeds sown. I am including some quotes from articles sent to my inbox, to help spread this news, with attribution of where to read the entire article.

From http://www.christianpost.com/news/why-is-christianity-losing-in-america-97168/ I quote: "To think that Christianity is thriving in America simply ignores the obvious and overwhelming facts of our times."..."the church in America today has also drifted from its biblical mission and the result has been a church largely divorced from its kingdom purposes and therefore increasingly irrelevant to people living in the real world. At the heart of our present dilemma is our diminished understanding of the gospel, namely the gospel of the kingdom. In reforming the church, the Reformers taught that Jesus-being the Son of God-was born, crucified, and rose again, and because of these facts, your sins can be forgiven. This was and no doubt remains "good news."...'To Israel, the gospel writers announce boldly, "The time is fulfilled, Israel's king has come!" Coupled with the fulfillment of Abrahamic covenant, this announcement is extended to the whole world, including both Jew and gentile. God has become king of the world and he, through Christ's death and the establishment of his kingdom, is gathering a people for himself through whom he is bringing redemption to every aspect and corner of his creation. Jesus invites us to repent (be born again) and enter the kingdom so we may join him in setting life and the world right!... 'It is in Jesus's proclamation of the kingdom-the in-breaking reign of God-that the mission of Christ gains its full meaning. The crucifixion achieved victory over sin and death, making Jesus King; the resurrection is the result of his victory and the first fruit of the age to come, and the ascension declares, "He reigns!"... 'Jesus says, "the kingdom is within your grasp" (Luke 17:21), meaning we are confronted with a decision, a decision to believe, trust, and follow Jesus in his work and purpose. There is no easy belief as some would prefer-saving faith compels us to act, and the direction in which we are to act is clarified in Jesus's command to "seek first the kingdom" (Matt. 6:33 ESV)." Also, I would add that the book of Revelation in the King James Holy Bible as a whole explains fully that there is a heaven that is an actual place where JESUS ascended too, and is alive forevermore; and there is a hell that is an actual place of burning torment forever also described in Revelations. Sinners, who reject, denounce GOD/JESUS* in the flesh now glorified, repeatedly become "abomination" to GOD and are sent to hell by GOD on HIS Judgment Day as told in Revelations. Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/why-is-christianity-losing-in-america-97168/...

Part of the moral decay into depravity in the U S has come about because of false doctrine and because there are enough sinners in the US who take the easy road instead of the high moral ground. I quote from another article sent to my inbox to help publicize: from http://www.wnd.com/2013/06/christian-exodus-from-boy-scouts-begins/ quote: "“God’s word explicitly says homosexuality is a choice, a sin,” said Reed, pastor of First Baptist Church of Gravel Ridge in Jacksonville, Arkansas. So when the Boy Scouts of America voted to lift its ban on openly gay youths on May 24, Reed said the church had no choice but to cut its charter with Troop 542. “It’s not a hate thing here,” Reed told CNN affiliate Fox 16. “It’s a moral stance we must take as a Southern Baptist church.”

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/06/christian-exodus-from-boy-scouts-begins/....

Also on the topic of Christians exerting pressure on the known Christians in high places to be CHRISTIAN, I quote from another article sent to my inbox: from http://au.christiantoday.com/article/christians-in-uk-look-to-queen-to-intervene-over-gay-marriage/15515.htm w/ quotes: "Christians will be submitting a letter to the Queen on Sunday asking her to uphold the traditional definition of marriage.

Their appeal coincides with celebrations to mark the 60th anniversary of the Queen's coronation.

The letter reminds her of her coronation oath "to the utmost of my power, [to] maintain the laws of God and the true profession of the Gospel".

I am a white, Christian, single woman who was once a sinner too until I prayed in humility for JESUS to redeem me from sin, and to write my name in his book of life [ read Revelations] and to be my Saviour, Redeemer, friend, guide, teacher while I live on this earth.

I believe it is more loving to tell someone who is at risk of eternal condemnation to the hell by THE ALMIGHTY GOD that they must repent if they want to go to heaven and to guide them to where they can find the scriptures about eternal life, and where each group [believers or unbelievers] spend eternity. It is not loving to see someone in gross sin such as killing their offspring, homosexuality, murders, blasphemy, denial of THE GOD, to ignore it, keep quiet to get along with them. It is better to cause friction in relationships than to stand idly by as people plummet into abomination and hell.

If you as reader do not know JESUS as your Saviour, then I ask you to remember that there is a set time and date according to Scripture when GOD would condemn you for rejecting and that time is known only to HIM. JESUS stands at the door of all human hearts, calling, seeking the lost, but you have to let him into your heart. HE doesn't kick in the door. [Read book of Matthew, KJV]

This blog is owned by & created and written by me Gloria Poole currently living in Missouri [but I own some land in the state of Georgia]. I am not ashamed of the gospel of THE LIVING LORD JESUS; nor am I apologetic in saying that abortion and homosexuality are grievous sins against GOD and that HE does not wink-wink at sin. There will be a JUDGEMENT DAY for all humans according to Revelations when each will individually give an account before GOD of their words and deeds on the earth; and GOD like the everlasting Judge of all, makes his decision and it is irreversible.

See other posts in this blog for more content on other blogs created by me; and also copyright notices of the art I create. Thanks for reading. ___*footnote: read John 10:30,KJV

Gloria Poole of Missouri owns / writes this & creates the art in it.

Obviously You know what this image is:

I have had to change several settings this afternoon on different accounts to try to prevent cyber-criminals from slamming 2 of my cell phones, and from stealing blogs of mine. I am adding my signature 'signed' with digital ink as I sign it with paint or pencils sometimes on sketches. However, on paintings in oils, or acrylics on canvas I have always signed only my first name Gloria in script in a corner of painting & usually with the year it was painted. Most of the time, I also include a title of painting that I named it, and more info and usually my full signature on the back of the painting. For sketches on paper, in sketch books, on bristol board [an art heavy weight paper] I sometimes sign my full signature, but always my name signature Gloria in script with upper case G and lower case loria.

I have more than one cell phone, more than one telephone and more than one blog; and I have emails. I quit posting my emails and tel phone numbers to blogs because immoral people used them to try to steal domains and images of art I created and also original photographs I photographed. My landline tel num is listed in the telephone directory in Missouri. I do not have family in Colorado. I do not have business partners in Colorado and never did! { I lived in Colorado 7 yrs and moved to Missouri on Oct 31, 2009. Before that I lived in NY, VA, NE and was born in the state of Georgia.} I am a white, Christian, prolife, Republican, single woman with the real name of Gloria Poole. And yes I have a middle name but I never write it on anything. I removed the Pappas name from my name by order of Divorce Judge in Arapahoe County Colorado in Oct 2007;[omitting specifics on purpose but those with a need to know them, have certified copies of final decree in 2007]; and resumed my maiden name of Poole at the same time. Almost of all the art I have created has my name including my maiden name of Gloria Poole on it.

In a way, it irks me greatly to have to constantly reiterate that I do not have a husband meaning THEREFORE, there is no man authorized to call up anybody and get my passwords, or account info! How many times do some people [ isps, cell phone carriers, telcos; federal credit unions, banks, businesses, etc] have to be told that? My 2nd exhusband [initials DBP] never lived in this apt in Missouri & will never live in it. He is my worst enemy on earth. I despise him and I will do harm to him [including death if he tries again to kill me] if he ever tries to come through the door of my dwelling or of any place I'm at or in. I was forgiving and tolerant for a long time, but he caused me permanent injuries and he is not going to get another chance to do that. Change of topic...

I am painting on a big canvas and it's progressing well. I might photograph it and add it to my blog when it's finished.

I have other blogs and they are different from this one. They also include some art I created and you might enjoy seeing them:

http://gloria0817.blogspot.com

http://gpoole817.blogspot.com

http://publishing-life.blogspot.com

http://prolife-nurse.blogspot.com

http://gloriapoole.wordpress.com

http://gloriapoole1749.wordpress.com

http://words-that-work-llp.blogspot.com

http://tapestry-of-life-llp.blogspot.com

http://gloriapoole.xanga.com

http://gloriapoole.tumblr.com

https://save-the-baby-humans.blogspot.com

http://newsforlife.blogspot.com

http://gloriapoole-paintings.blogspot.com

http://artist-gloriapoole.blogspot.com

I am not sure if that is the total list of blogs I have created from accounts I owned for YEARS; and created content for, including original photos, original oil paintings and sketches in watercolors, acrylics, tempera, oil pastels, goauche, powdered pastels, inks with brush & pens. I think of the blogs as mini-galleries: a way of displaying original art I create. I enjoy creating, painting, drawing, sketching. And I enjoy sharing it for people to see. But I do not enjoy it when cybercriminals break into my accounts using info they stole from me. I do not consider it reasonable when unscrupulous, immoral people try to steal what I create, or my identity or my name!

Copyright Notice: all works I create whether original paintings, sketches, drawings, photographs, graphics, or words are copyrighted. I am the only owner of the copyright rights inclusive of virtually every piece of art or word I have written or created unless I have signed a formal document assigning the copyright. I have only done that in Atlanta, GA for the Eskine Caldwell Museum in Newnan, and on St Simons Island, GA for the St Simons Island Museum [for Angel with a guitar; a huge painting of female angel in teal long robe-like dress holding a guitar] .

Gloria Poole; @ my apt in Missouri [and only residence since Oct 31, 2009 ] @ 4:02pm on 30-May-2013

Memorial Day Tribute, 2013, to my father who died

To begin with, let me tell you it took 3 reboots, about four logins, including a login to my isp acct to be able to login to this today. Cyber-attackers attacked two of my cell phones through-out the nite last nite, and they must have also tried to bombard this blog, because it was a login problem. This is not a shared account, not a shared apt, not a shared isp account,not a shared computer, not a shared mission or effort. My 2nd exhusband [initials DBP] never had his hands on any of the equipment I currently use or that actually works. He never lived in this apt and I never worked for him and he never worked for me either and he has no authority to use my name in any way. IF he and other cyber-criminals break into my computer & / or telephones it still does NOT authorize them on my accounts. Read the words I posted to my blog at :http://tapestry-of-life-llp.blogspot.com on that topic. Back on task...

Memorial Day Tribute 2013 for my Daddy who died in Dec 2004:

I remember

written by Gloria Poole aka gloriapoole

I remember

my daddy said,

"the Army will make a man outa you"

to my brothers

when they were teens

and fighting each other

on the lawn.

I remember

my daddy said,

"don't you ever

criticize the Military--

they are

what makes this country great".

I remember

my daddy said,

"I went to Bakersfield

on the way to Europe

to fight

the Germans

but the war ended."

I remember,

my daddy said,

"when I die,

I want the U S flag

on my coffin"

& a Military funeral."

I remember,

my daddy said

when I asked

if he knew The Lord?

That "he took care

of that so long ago.

I remember,

my daddy said,

"you kids needed

a mama

so I couldn't divorce her.

I remember,

my daddy said,

"When I saw you walk

that Georgia graduation

it was one

of the happiest

days of my life".

I remember,

my daddy said,

when I knelt beside his bed

& pleaded with him,

"get up, daddy

you are too young

to die

that he "would do it

just for me.

I remember,

my daddy said,

" I always loved your mama",

"but she never loved me.

And I cried.

I remember,

my daddy said

one night about 2am

that if he didn't go

& give blood

the woman down the street

. would die.

From some disease

she'd had

for many years.

I remember,

my daddy said,

to the neighbor who drove about 90 mph; "if you run over

one of my kids

I'll kill you.

I remember,

my daddy said,

"I've got to go

crank up the big tractor

and pull that idiot

who missed the curve

out of the ditch.

I remember,

my daddy said,

he was "hard-line Baptist"

and his granddaddy was a

Minister back home.

I remember,

my daddy said,

as he held my first-born

. child

a daughter named Jennifer

that she pleased him so much.

I remember,

my daddy said,

as he held my second

. child

a daughter,named Leigh

that "she looks sorta yellow"

but she'll be fine.

And she pleased him too.

I remember,

my daddy said,

when I was about 4

and neighbors were visting

and I was chattering

"if you will be quiet

for just 5 minutes

I'll give you a quarter."

I remember,

my daddy said

one nite

during spend-the-nite

giggle -fest. and go to sleep

"I'm gonna whip the both

of you.

There are so memories of my daddy. He was the rock of Gibraltar for me--a steady, unwavering influence that endured for all his life. He knew right from wrong, didn't waffle, and his no meant no, and don't ask again. He drove us to Pensacola to the NAS there and the aviation museum. And to NAS Jacksonville to see the Navy fleet come in, once when my brother had just come back with the fleet. { I have 3 brothers and 2 sisters, fyi.} He loved this country and the Military. He loved babies! And he held everyone of us on his knee in a peculiar way sort of suspended there but with his huge hand supporting our backs and heads, as he would "bump" the chair to sort of rock to soothe us. He never came into my bedroom; not even when he was mad and planned to punish us. He'd said 'it's not right", so he would knock on door, say "you girls come here! with a bellow that we knew meant business!" My daddy liked my first husband [now obviously the first exhusband I had] and my then-husband liked him too.

My daddy died in Dec 2004 and I cried myself sick. I was living in Denver at the time,and in a second horrible marriage [that ended in divorce 3 yrs later]; and my daddy called me and wanted me to come home. But he said he was doing ok, and he talked to my then-husband who said we both go visit later. But my daddy died suddenly and it broke my heart.

My daddy was a WWII veteran and he considered it his highest achievement. He went to the Military parades and kept in touch with his Army-AF buddies. He visited them in nursing homes to sit and talk for hours, to cheer them up. He was born in Georgia and lived there his whole life. I miss him so much still.

Oh, before I forget, my daughter Leigh was jaundiced some because she was a few days premature, and she was under bilirubin lights for a few days. I worried much, but my mama and daddy had faith she would be all right.And she was/is.

Gloria Poole; @ my apt in Missouri; 25-May-2013 ; 1:53pm.

I photographed roses on walkabout

These photos are of the same rose obviously. This is an experiment for me mostly to see if there is a huge difference in two of the cameras I use the most. See if you can tell any difference in them.

Also, I have many comments about event of this past week that are in the news but I will add them to a different blog so as not to appear to be "rewarding" it with flowers!

Also, I have not done much sketching or painting this past week. I sort of paint/sketch/draw in spurts sort of like a pulse. I wait til I have an idea or inspiration before beginning usually, and then paint/sketch/draw for several days, then take time-out.

The weather in Missouri is spring finally. Emerald green grass on the lawn, blue sky with white clouds, lovely view from my balcony at the moment since the pool is right in front of me when I'm on my balcony.

Gloria Poole {R.N. & artist] at my apt in Missouri; 5:30pm; 17-May-2013

Happy Mother's Day to all mothers from me a mother

First, Happy Mother's Day celebration to all mothers who decided to produce living babies in obedience to the Commandment of GOD to "be fruitful and multiply" in Genesis 1: 27-28. I am also a mother of two [now grown] daughters; and having babies was the smartest thing I ever did. I had a Mother's Day celebration yesterday with my youngest daughter Leigh and her tiny [2 yrs & 6 months old] children, and it was much fun.

Also, I am adding here a photo of the painting I painted with no particular person in mind but which my granddaughter Lydia said resembled her. She's 12 so I think the painting looks older than that, but so what? I am adding it here, because I had added it to another blog of mine previously, and it caused some confusion. I was painting on a salveged piece of board so couldn't adjust the size. Yes, my granddaughter has both legs and both feet. But I was also designing a dress in that painting--making it up as I was painting on the spot--so wanted all of it to show. It is on my front wall. To the right of it, are the Dutch wooden shoes from Holland aka Netherlands that belonged to my mother. I am not sure how or when my mother acquired them. But I suspect from her ancestors, some of whom lived in upper part of Schlewsig-Holstein Germany near the Baltic across from Netherlands. When my mother [in Georgia] died in Jan 2010, I inherited among other things and money and land, those shoes. My tiny grandchildren like to put them on. The older grandchildren [12 & 14] outgrew their fascination with them. Also, to the right is a painting I was painting of the ocean. You only see a portion of it. It is not the last painting of the ocean I will paint. Some day I am going to paint a huge mural size painting of the ocean and put it in my front room.

Here below is the painting I guess I will name "Lydia" since she sort of claimed it as looking like her. It does a bit. My granddaughter is quite accomplished--made Honor society and is in ballet learning to be ballerina. My grandson Samuel is also quite accomplished, and plays instrument in the orchestra of his school, sails with a team, and does so many things well. All of my grandchildren are smart and beautiful. I think living to the age [young or old; varies] when one's children have children is one of life's greatest rewards. My photo on this page above this is my photo of me this year, so I am not ancient yet. In fact, my oldest daughter had about 3 children before people thought I looked old enough to be a grandmother. Now I have seven grandchildren from both my daughters with their husbands; and I adore my grandchildren.

I don't know why this photo is cloudy. Except that the very same device I photographed it with was nearly hijacked away from me last nite in an effort by cyber-criminals to control what I do, write, post, tweet. I photograph whatever with one of several cameras, then upload it so several things involved in getting it to blog. I think it is brighter color on the other blog without that sort of white film that Apple computers put on photos.

Enjoy life! Thank GOD every day and pray for wisdom.

Gloria Poole @ my apt in Missouri; 11-May-2013; 10:03am

More sketches I created

These are some of the sketches I created in the past week. I added one in rough draft form to another blog a few days ago, but you can see the finished sketch here [the third sketch entitled, 'maybe those table manners could use some work?" in which the little girl is drinking from her bowl. I named the first two sketches in acrylics, "sitting on the dock". One is a close up of the figures in the sketch and one is a full view of it. It took a total of five times to add these sketches today. The first 2 sets were fractured by cybercriminals breaking into my phone. The 3rd was stolen as I sent it. These were attempted to be hijacked from me. The "people" in these sketches are not real people. They are imaginary. However I do have two grown daughters [who are married , with children including girls and boys] and no doubt I am influenced by how they look at different times. And I myself have spent much time of my life at the lake when I was married the first time and had a ski boat, and so the scenes of lakes & oceans [I am from state of Georgia] are very familiar to me. So here they are:

Gloria Poole; RN & artist , at my apt in Missouri; 2:26pm; 1-May-2013.

Regardless of what criminals who are not related to me or authorized on any account of mine tell you, I am not moving from my apt nor from Missouri. {At least not any time soon. I can't say never-- I wonder often if anybody will stay in US because of all the radical socialism schemes of that wicked Obama; or if all will emigrate to liberty to not be harassed by thugs and bad law enforcement in Colorado?} I am at liberty as much as anyone is. But every time I use my cell phone I bought, paid in full for, pay the plan on to send photos of art I create to my own blog, criminals try to intercept it. It makes me furious! I have many phones with many different plans but I never had a Verizon phone but Verizon "ecrminals" try to break into my phones and have for about a year.] I despise Verizon now. I cancelled my mifi with them five months ago because they supplied the password to my violent exhusband who said he would kill me. I don't do ever willingly, knowingly do business with criminals! ].