Category Archives: Thoughts and Ruminations

I can’t remember when I first started “coloring.” Probably it was like most kids at age two or three. The first drawings I remember doing were of tanks, soldiers and airplanes, so it must have been when I was four or five , during the last years of War World II. I was somewhat aware of the war then because I remember shouting, “Bombs over Tokyo,” when letting it loose on the toilet. I also remember stamping on cans to be collected for the war effort and monitoring the donation of accumulated bacon grease. I also have a vivid memory of a Movietone News clip of the mushroom cloud from the exploding of the first atomic bomb and my amazement of the awful destructive power of fungus. Continue reading →