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[solongleonard]

Geoffrey, things always sort themselves out in the long run and the glass is always half full

well, i have injured a leg, and cannot do any running. it happened today when i was climbing over a fence. they carried me back inside and the doctor is going to look at me tomorrow. it was nice of you to write.
i'll just die if i don't get this recipe.jpg

Sally! I am so sorry to hear this. Sally, because I love you. I will check if I can send you one of my salads to make you all better and enhancing your happy(Loch) Ness.

I should have the answer by November 10th next year so hold tight


Solong

[AlanM]

After enjoying a successful career with Fulham, Tottenham Hotspur, and the England national team in the 1960s and 1970s, he became a manager working with several clubs. He is now employed as a television pundit.

Have I been sprung? Or not?

Remember this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NLueHEhKTc

AlanPM

Geoffrey,
I hope your lower limb rapidly recovers to its former glory, aided by the food parcel from Solong, which I'm sure will arrive within the decade. He's so reliable.

AlanM

[MaryB]

You forum members on this thread are way too clever for me - done..........

[B4real]

Super goal Alan M
Ah, such memories! Now that has prompted some of my personal fond footy reminiscences! About that same time I was also playing soccer, position centre-half. I still have all my grand final and best of trophies!
Franz Beckenbauer, Pat Jennings and George Best were my heroes then.
When I was living in London not far from my local team of Chelsea, I was invited to join their Women’s FA team but didn’t take up the offer because I had plans to travel. At Chelsea, I watched George Best play for Fulham against Chelsea in his very last game of football in the English National league before he went to America. I have 12 photos of this occasion but unfortunately, not the best quality; here’s one -

I was still playing soccer when George Best came to Brisbane where I then lived and watched him play games for the then named Brisbane Lions. During that time I was going out with a player from their local rival team, Brisbane City
The name of Brisbane Lions now belongs to another team from a different code in the same town. Their grand final taking place inaugurally there in about a week’s time.

[AlanM]

Super goal Alan M

Aw, shucks, thanks Bev. Just another day at work.

Regarding your photos of George Best {blessed be his name}, you just need a photo manipulation program(me) that you got for free, bundled with the digital camera you bought >15 years ago.

Interesting combination of favourite players from that era. Jennings and Best, I can understand, but why get excited about Beckenbauer, when you can get excited about highly skilled players who never played in World Cup finals?

JOKE WARNING: A well known football manager (= team coach) was doing his shopping and was asked by a "fan" what he was doing. "I've just got a bag of potatoes for Bobby Charlton". Reply: "What a great bargain." {Tish, boom!} Feel free to insert a variety of names as you see fit.

Alan (P?M)

[LisaLCFan]

...I was also playing soccer, position centre-half ...

I played soccer, too, as a kid! (school or community-league teams -- nothing serious). My favourite position was goal-keeper, but I also played centre-forward (the two best jobs: preventing goals or scoring goals!). I particularly loved playing goalie against good teams (i.e., a bit better than my team!) -- far more action for me, and thus far more fun; against a bad team, it was so boring, I'd just stand there the whole time and watch all the other players at the opposite end of the field.

...A well known football manager (= team coach) was doing his shopping and was asked by a "fan" what he was doing. "I've just got a bag of potatoes for Bobby Charlton". Reply: "What a great bargain." ...

Good one!

[B4real]

Yes, as Lisa's new subject states, we have digressed somewhat here. Actually, it seems solong started it all off

Alan, thanks for the photo enhancement!
Shame we can't see their faces - by memory I think George (in the white shirt) is in the centre.
The defender of the ball on our right also had the same haircut!

Interesting combination of favourite players from that era. Jennings and Best, I can understand, but why get excited about Beckenbauer, when you can get excited about highly skilled players who never played in World Cup finals?
Alan (P?M)

... and how could I possibly forget Kevin Keegan!
Also, one day I may still get to kick a ball around with a certain "highly skilled" non-world cup finals player

Lisa, when I first started playing soccer our centre forward also played goalie in a hockey team. She said she liked the opposite positions too! In fact, she became the official goalie for Australian hockey and played at the Olympic Games. It was the first time Australian women's hockey had qualified for them.

A little more of my soccer story -
Way back then I taught my nephew a few skills when he was a child. He now is captain coach of the local team

Now, looking forward to more of Geoffrey's creative artwork.

[Geoffrey]

Now, looking forward to more of Geoffrey's creative artwork.

very kind of you, B4real, although "looking forward" will always risk being the overture to a disappointment

[B4real]

Now, looking forward to more of Geoffrey's creative artwork.

very kind of you, B4real, although "looking forward" will always risk being the overture to a disappointment

Looking forward and living on the edge is exciting, isn't it

Very cool, both of these portraits, Geoffrey. I think you are going through your blue period as did Picasso


https://www.leonardcohenforum.com/viewt ... 90#p375636

[Geoffrey]

thank you, B4real, for using your time on me.

yes, i'm afraid these pictures are scattered everywhere, not kept in the intended 'gallery' thread - tidiness is not one of my strengths. in future i plan to try harder to keep to the agreement i made. these recent pictures are nothing special, by the way - mere variations on earlier ones that i had posted some time ago. making my own versions of leonard cohen portraits is simply an enjoyable pastime, employing any available tools - it's just a useless hobby.

the injured leg is healing well, a torn or sprained calf(?) muscle - no need for medical examination. i remain confident that my life will return back to normal on - or hopefully before - 1st november. it will be strange at first, and i will celebrate by taking a breather and meeting friends. have almost forgotten what a glass of wine tastes like

here is an advertisement i photographed from an old american publication.

[B4real]

Geoffrey,
I find it such an interesting happenstance you would post that old art ad!
Before I went to art college, worked in the graphic (commercial) art industry and became an art teacher, some of my very first art instruction books that I still have came from such a place! We lived in the country and I went to a one teacher school. I wanted to expand my art knowledge and got these following books sent to Australia from the International Correspondence School in America. I notice it was then also in Montreal, Canada

I haven’t looked at these very old art books for many, many years so thanks for reviving the memories!

PS - good to know you are healing.

[Geoffrey]

thank you for showing me these books. the three lower ones look jolly interesting. now we have youtube, internet - the 'information highway'. art is a subject apart from most others, in my opinion. the greater amount of tutoring one receives the greater one is taught what to do - and originality suffers. other people will argue to the contrary, and that is to be respected; i speak only for myself. jesus said "unless you become like children, you will never enter heaven", but he could have said "you will never become an artist". picasso was of the same opinion: "all children are artists, but the problem is how to remain an artist once you grow up". a child has fun, does what he/she likes without trying to impress. i could study their work for hours, genuinely meaningful, expressing how they see the world, a beautiful naivety that cannot be bought or taught. this is why i am reluctant to call myself an artist. i just make pictures

[LisaLCFan]

...a child has fun, does what he/she likes without trying to impress...

That's how I live my life! Does that make me a child, or just an adult who doesn't care about impressing others?

[B4real]

My pleasure, Geoffrey!
And I can see why you would think being taught art stifles creativity. Whatever way you choose, it's about being freely true to yourself. All my life ever since I can remember I have drawn and painted. I was so eager to learn more and am happy I chose the way I did to do that. I can utilise any art technique or materials and also pass that information on to others. Knowing how and when to use different techniques and materials can only enhance and reinforce your own special way of seeing and depicting your subject matter. Knowledge is power and it gives you the freedom to choose.

You know, no one ever loses their originality, there are just varied ways to express it. Your written signature changes a bit from time to time but the mark you make is forever uniquely yours. That same individuality still shows in the way you express yourself in art regardless of being self-taught or tutored. It has nothing to do with any “standards” of art.

Saying that has reminded me of some time ago us talking about how art is all about “feeling”.
https://www.leonardcohenforum.com/viewt ... es#p372098



EDIT:
...and Lisa, I've just noticed that my second sentence above is somewhat akin to your words

[LisaLCFan]

...Whatever way you choose, it's about being freely true to yourself....

The thing is, one has to know oneself, first, and only then can they be true to themselves! I have no problem doing that, but I do not believe that it is a universal condition.