"The Imitation Of Life..."

"The Artist's Corner..."

"Nino"

Oil on canvas

George William Clark

"The Views To Love..."

"The Truth About Love..."

To love is for the Soul to choose a companion, and travel with it along the perilous defiles and winding ways of life; mutually sustaining, when it is rugged with obstructions, and mutually rejoicing, when rich broad plains and sunny slopes make journeying delight.

- George Henry Lewes

"This Made Me Smile..."

This reminded me that there were some

good days to be remembered from my childhood.

"The Things That Love Says..."

Our love is about small days to build memories upon, simple adventures we experience together.

"We Were Always There..."

"Selfie Love..."

"Selfie Love" - those beautiful, grainy, out-of-focus self-pics that capture the truth of true love..."

"A Little Sane Advice..."

"Fuck waiting... Say that thing you've been wanting to say. Do that thing you've been wanting to do. Stop fucking waiting. Time runs out."

- You could lose it all in a second.

"The Imitation Of Life..."

This is perhaps my favorite scene from the original and still the best, 1970's "The Boys In The Band."  Although I would come of age more than 10 years later, in the midst of the AIDS crisis, this film poignantly reflects the loneliness, fear and anxiety that for the first 40 years of my life I believed would be my fate as a closeted gay man in deep denial of what I knew to be my truth.  In fact, although the film only alludes to a happy ending for Hank and Larry, it was enough to give me hope as I struggled with my own doubts about the nature of love and my hopes for any future happiness.  

I first saw this film on CBET-TV 9 out of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. It was one of many films that Canadian television bravely aired which would never even have been considered in the U.S. in the era in which I grew up.

"The Artist's Corner..."

"Model's Rest"

Oil on canvas

Randall Lake

"The Views To Love..."