Today I want to share one of my favorite authors Uvi Poznansky who breathes new life into the Biblical Old Testament characters and stories known and read by Jews and Christians worldwide. You get the inner dialogue that resulted in their actions. Uvi successfully renders the Bible stories on an every day human level that any one of any faith or religion can relate.
The people in the Old Testament really come to life with a touch of Uvi’s pen and imagination. No longer dry, brittle assertions of do’s and don’ts, aka The Law but real flesh and blood humans with all the faults, flaws and frailties of earthly beings. People who could be our family members, co-workers, school friends, neighbors or sitting next to us in Synagogue or Church.
Uvi gives psychological insight into the motives, whys, wherefores, emotions and feelings and inner turmoils facing the Bible Patriarchs and Matriarchs thus becoming a mirror for Modern Day people since times change but basic human desires don’t change.
Uvi’s book, “A Favorite Son” is the perfect companion piece to my previous blog post on the Frick Museum Special Exhibition Zurbaran’ Jacob and His 12 Sons. I think that the both Uvi’s book and Zurbaran’s paintings dovetail quite nicely.
The Delights of Zurbarán’s Jacob and His Twelve Sons, in NYC for the First Time
“Hanesberry-SeaTek Soul Manufacturing Corporation. Celestial to Terrestrial. Haberdashery from the spirit world!”
Ms. Zazu, Welcome aboard! Enjoy the Orientation experience!
On the surface Peabody appeared to be a simple plain milquetoast rather nondescript man but when he opened his mouth the gift of gab was on display. Peabody was also Blessed to have deep soulful purple sapphire eyes. Reflective orbs that looked inward as well as outward causing those on the tour to melt like satin soft velvet. Eyes that could lift your immortal soul from its corporeal casements.
A uniquely and slightly disturbing feature in a soul system seller. A step up I suppose from the fat pomaded bejeweled thugs who had infiltrated this business making it more sinful than saintly. Pompous puffed up killer penguins. Wise guys of the underworld operating from the abyss.
“Follow me down this hallway as we move forward, outward, onward and upward!”
Entranced by this expressive enthralling yet off putting man Zazu dutifully followed him through the hallway into and through mystical doorways.
Yes Zazu, we have souls in all shapes, sizes and consistencies. Bilious, Ethereal, Foggy, Ghostly, Glazed, Nebulous, Murky, Musty, Cloudy, Misty, transparent, translucent, Reflective, Shadowy, shady, Hazy, Ambiguous, dark, light. We can even project them through our magnificent stained glass infinity mirrors which provide a kaleidoscope of past and present.
Applicants possessing familial ancestor cards are in luck because they can keep the incarnations of soul splicing within the realm of genetic memory and DNA connectors. Names are a good reference point but if the name of the ancestor is unknown or long forgotten an image or likeness is perfectly acceptable.
This is a Tin Type photo of an unknown unnamed Ancestor
Parents provide the body, location and genetic format. We provide the soul. Each person gets their own unique soul even twins, triples and multiples. However Multiples retain certain connective arterial junctions and junctures, trails and pathways that remain unbroken with each incarnation.
The Souls are kept in their respective receptacles until the requester is matched with a suitable or persistent donor. Most soul donors go through many cycles due to being dissatisfied with either the body that selected them or the family castaway dynamics they were thrust into.
Depending on your selection based on DNA and genetics we can even provide slightly used recycled souls aka “Old Souls” reconstituted into fresh new bundles of Joy. Or if you or a family members prefer we can take a soul or a myriad of souls from different cultures, natures, traditions and belief systems to incorporate them into a chubby weeping, wailing crying gurgling humanoid that any advanced primate would be proud to shelter and raise.
We can even tweak the time space continuum allowing souls to move backward in the earthly time line but never forward. Our time travel option is somewhat limited. Sometimes souls are born out of time or into a time period where they don’t fit in but Heck we guaranteed souls not the sentient being into which they might find themselves.
Sometimes we get requests for souls of fictional creations both literary and cinematic. This presents a challenge but we aim to please therefore we compile an adjusted tweaked reorganized compilation of characteristics as given from the fictional characters original creator.
Dino Eggs Sit down
Dino Chicken Eggs
Certain Soul requests derive from magical mystical oral tales passed from generation to generation for them we require the services of the Pegasus Unicorn. The majestic beasts although riderless are equipped with invisible saddle packet pockets on either side in which to place the mystic dinosaur eggs plucked directly from the Akashic Library. The Akashic Library Records cover all cultures, countries, nations, rites/rituals, traditions, tribes and spiritual belief systems.
We get lots of requests for the souls or rather the soul characteristics of many famous Hollywood actors, actresses, singers, entertainers, sports figures, dancers, etc… However we try to discourage these choices as souls coming from those professions have fame, money and good looks but rarely any real self-confidence or inner peace.
Those requests are more costly as they often entail an ending filled with tricked out hearses driven by teams of decked out Pegasus Unicorns. Soul transportation and transfiguration does not come cheap on any level or in any stage. Hollywood, TV and movies stars plus sports figures take on mythical proportions that even death cannot seem to dispel. In fact the longer they lay a moldering in the grave the more fanciful and larger gains of illusion and delusion .
Often they are quite vain, ill-tempered and once they reach the desired fame factor they tend to develop a sense of entitlement. Little realizing the public often has the last word. They flare up bright and fast but burn out quickly much to the consternation of the customer occupying that particular flesh container. The Live Fast and die Young crowd are mostly likely to wind up snuffed out like a candle in a strong wind.
Big problem with the Muses, the Fates and the Three Graces over when to and how much or how often to Bless them with intelligence, talent, beauty and grace plus when to cut the umbilical cord.
Mr. Peabody kept up a brisk pace causing me to break into a quick canter which came to an abrupt end when he unexpectedly stopped short. Plain Mr. Peabody transformed becoming regal with perfect bright white shiny teeth that beamed a blinding smile, dark polished hair embodying a sleaze bag kind of look that took me by surprise. A Suave Sophisticated Patent Leather Elegant Lover who made the sweat roll down my back and between my butt cheeks. Oh What Debonair can do. It elicits root feelings once thought left behind.
Turning slowly his melodic eyes held mine but for a brief time that threatened to edge into eternity whilst he explained that evil, wicked, demonic souls become wandering disembodied entities seeking spiritual empty flesh houses, obese lusty grey rats or cockroaches.
Svengali Serpentine spell interruption. Inner force field between us broken. Or was it just punctured? Who knows? I certainly don’t?
All the photos were downloaded from the article. Being well aware of the policy when I went to see the exhibit my camera stayed in my pocket.
The security guards will ask you to put your camera/cell phone away and refrain from taking pictures or talking on the cell phone. Be polite and Obey Museum rules.
If you are serious about art you can take in the Excellence, beauty and wonder of this Magnificent special exhibition without the need to act like a crazed tourist.
Art is meant to be contemplated, felt, plus thought provoking. Even though it is tempting to want that photo resist the temptation and enjoy being in the moment. I thoroughly enjoyed viewing this jaw dropping artwork and hope to go back again before the show ends.
The Frick Museum has a Strict
NO PHOTOGRAPHY POLICY!
No Pictures Allowed! If you want keepsakes or souvenirs buy from the Gift Shop!
If I can get well then Stephen can have a great 57th Birthday Celebration in May. Let’s make Stephen’s Birthday an AweSome AweTism BornDay Celebration!!
Please help me help Stephen. Thank you.
Please Allow 6 to 8 weeks for delivery! Thank you!
Complete with Fancy Bonnet, Black Patent Leather Shoes and matching handbag! I was very cute!
Me. Easter 1964. Complete with Fancy Bonnet Black Patent Leather Shoes and matching handbag! I was very cute!
Memories of coloring Easter Eggs with Mommy and Daddy making sure that we both had Easter Baskets filled with Chocolate Bunnies and lots of Jelly Beans!
All of that is fun but Jesus arising from the Tomb is the true meaning of the Resurrection!
I Serve a Risen Savior! He Lives! He Lives! Christ Jesus Lives Today!
Luke 24New International Version (NIV)
Jesus Has Risen
24 On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb.2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb,3 but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.4 While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them.5 In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead?6 He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee:7 ‘The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’ ”8 Then they remembered his words.
9 When they came back from the tomb, they told all these things to the Eleven and to all the others.10 It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them who told this to the apostles.11 But they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense.12 Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb. Bending over, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he went away, wondering to himself what had happened.
On the Road to Emmaus
13 Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles[a] from Jerusalem.14 They were talking with each other about everything that had happened.15 As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them;16 but they were kept from recognizing him.
17 He asked them, “What are you discussing together as you walk along?”
They stood still, their faces downcast.18 One of them, named Cleopas,asked him, “Are you the only one visiting Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?”
19 “What things?” he asked.
“About Jesus of Nazareth,” they replied. “He was a prophet, powerful in word and deed before God and all the people.20 The chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him;21 but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. And what is more, it is the third day since all this took place.22 In addition, some of our women amazed us. They went to the tomb early this morning23 but didn’t find his body. They came and told us that they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive.24 Then some of our companions went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see Jesus.”
25 He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken!26 Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?”27 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.
28 As they approached the village to which they were going, Jesus continued on as if he were going farther.29 But they urged him strongly, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening; the day is almost over.” So he went in to stay with them.
30 When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them.31 Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight.32 They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”
33 They got up and returned at once to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and those with them, assembled together34 and saying, “It is true! The Lord has risen and has appeared to Simon.”35 Then the two told what had happened on the way, and how Jesus was recognized by them when he broke the bread.
Jesus Appears to the Disciples
36 While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”
37 They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost.38 He said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds?39 Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.”
40 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet.41 And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, “Do you have anything here to eat?”42 They gave him a piece of broiled fish,43 and he took it and ate it in their presence.
44 He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you:Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.”
45 Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures.46 He told them, “This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,47 and repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.48 You are witnesses of these things.49 I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”
The Ascension of Jesus
50 When he had led them out to the vicinity of Bethany, he lifted up his hands and blessed them.51 While he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up into heaven.52 Then they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy.53 And they stayed continually at the temple,praising God.
Espiritu en Fuego/A Fiery Spirit 