My latest painting, experimenting with oil pastels and mixed media (mainly because the watercolor paper turned out to be so crappy and kept falling apart, I needed to rescue it with many other new elements)...
Anyway, I'm rather pleased with the results. I love the whimsical colors.
Hope you all have an awesome Christmas/Solstice and new Year.
Love, Mariah and Mark
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Mark has been extremely sensitive in regards to the Bill S. and Gretchen W. affair. He was basically just very passionate about the Knight's Templar foundation and everything this involved. His thinking was that -for this order to go forth and flourish, we All needed to be in harmony. Obviously any discord would be a distraction away from the common goal.
I agreed up to a point, and attempted on way too many occasions to resolve the issues between Gretchen and myself in regards to her unfounded judgments towards my deeply personal spiritual beliefs.
As did Mark.
Unfortunately Gretchen was completely unwilling to even Discuss the situation. Consequently I ended up getting excluded from certain essential functions, because she didn't want me there.
Mark and I engaged in frequent conflicts over these issues for several months. We had rarely ever fought before these dark forces entered our lives.
But it was something he'd just wanted so desperately. Bill had painted such an Enticing picture, that Mark was among the several otherwise highly intelligent people who were blinded.
It hit Mark really hard when he finally realized the truth. His intentions had basically been purely altruistic. I had wanted the dream as well, for Mark's sake. I knew how much it had meant to him. And he's still extremely sensitive about the subject. I'm tired of it down to my bones, and am so relieved they're both Gone. Out of our lives...
My latest painting, experimenting with oil pastels and mixed media (mainly because the watercolor paper turned out to be so crappy and kept falling apart, I needed to rescue it with many other new elements)...
