Painful Landscapes & Eternal Sunsets

 October 18, 2022

One more cloud scape from last night

Trailer Park Miracle

One thing certain cartoonists do not want to do is expose their inner pain. It's, well, it's too painful. That's why we're cartoonists!

Daily Whip Out:

"A Painful Landscape Narration"

See what I mean? This is painful and honest and true. And, so is this:

Daily Whip Out: "A Punk In My Past"

  Is it the memory of my "punk" son growing up? Or, is it my own rebellious growing up, haunting my old man dreams? Here's a clue:

"The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd—the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible: nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world's existence. All these half-tones of the soul's consciousness create in us a painful landscape, and eternal sunset of what we are."

—Fernando Pessoa

The Eternal Sunset of What We Are