Doc GM
It has been a while since I made a blog posting. I have been so busy since the TAQ hearing I went through, I will be getting a copy of the TAQ decision in the mail. As it turns out, between caulking the gap between the floor and wall in my rented apartment, along with processing water through my system of filtering water by gravity with funnels, while paper and cotton filters are inserted into them, I am all the more healthier as age comes upon me. From studying a famous Quebec artist named Jean-Pierre Riopelle, I produced this star burst with chaulk pastel. I am star struck with what my life has become and studying the image below, as to the little star I am becoming as Doc GM, (A.K.A. "Slim Shady of Walkley"). The star burst was done way back, when I was still part of a mental health art group, while in the homeless missions of Montreal. I am healthier as a result of my efforts to succeed, I have also been working on my art show, that has been arranged through the help of the mental health clinic at the CLSC, that does my mental health follow up for the Courts.
How my own faith in being a believer in a Christian philosophy around old and new scriptures, found in our Bible. I have found some sort of salvation ever since I went into the homeless missions and then long term care 10 years ago in the summer of 2013. With a Lawyer a Social worker I got out of long term care and became "Slim Shady of Walkley", my beloved street family and what my life became when the men took me in over time, and like they can all profess, I know what I am doing with a tool in my hand. May it be for doing art or as a Engineering Technician forging material at my now productive work bench with my tools. I remember way back in here, the doomed home I made for myself since I lost both my parents and contact for any other close family member in Canada. Below is an image I did during some darker years in mental health. and having some incriminatory incidents as a Greek Tragity, the Officer and Gentilman from the Coast Guard that ending up with a sort of criminal record by Quebec Courts. The Lamb under the protective grip of the Courts and pyschiatry, artistically produced while incarsarated. See image below:
As I put together the start of this section of the posting, at this point in time...."taking care of business every day", makes for my theme song as to, the BTO song of my youth in the '70s! Yea, even money issues over my writings, and physical labours, with acknowledgement of my work efforts as a mental health consumer that learned how to write at the University level. The studying cost money and investment.! How can one, through writing be able to somehow support the Writers strike in the States. I support my writings from a well earned pension cheque, it was a forum of writing therapy for getting me working with a gracious Provincial system of work and paying taxes. While still bringing home a cheque to survive on as a Pensioner over 60, with such a cheque developed through paying taxes all my life to the Provincial pension plan in Quebec. Even if it is the Government tax plan from, a income tax paying system, for an individual that works or learning how to work.....to looking for work is work that makes work...it is all work that needs a small "Hero Biskit" for their labour of love, to volunteer within a community or for a race of people, one with human issues different from others, that needs tolerance applied as a science. In my own determination, perhaps soon I will pay my fee for the Canadian Writers Guild...My birthday present for myself in August, at least I want to pay for work done in writng, proving I am fit for some sort of physical labour or for a rewarding pay cheque in the end for my labour of love in physical labour as a Engineering Technician. Writing on various topics as a mental health consumer that always worked around buildings and machinary, developing my skills to obtain a pension plan, in continued growth financially with my community backing me to get civil engineering of a certain standard, in a metropolus that has an ambundance of homeless individuals, that need a place to live and get back working, as we need all the home grown workers we can get for this economy of August 2023.
