Sketchbook Pages- He Ran The Gauntlet

It rained and rained and rained.

Moleskine Pages - This Be The Verse, with respect to P.L.

' Their cruelty was untempered by trivial concerns such as empathy or fellow feeling. The fruits of their labour were toxic. But in the end we grow up and tamp down the psychoses. We live and sometimes let live.'

In The Garden Of Eden - Moleskine Art

My childhood experiences taught me that to an extent the phrase 'childhood innocence' is an adult fantasy. Children can be breathtakingly cruel to each other. It goes along with a code of secrecy that would leave a hardened gang banger in tears of admiration. The bully keeps quiet in order for his reign of terror to continue, the bullied keeps quiet out of shame and fear of further retribution. The lucky of us come out of the other end relatively unscathed. It shapes us more than we know. Although I was never a bully, I was sneaky, a consummate liar and at times fiercely self righteous.