Just Before This Bus Is Evacuated, Engine Smoking…
25 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
in My Poetry, observation
On the March
04 Dec 2010 4 Comments
in My Artwork
On the March by Maria Warren ~ Acrylic and mixed media on paper.
December Will Be Magic Again
01 Dec 2010 2 Comments
in Music I Love Tags: Christmas music, December Will Be Magic Again, December Will Be Magic Again - bongo version, Kate Bush
For me, the most magical Christmas song. Wishing everyone a magic December :-) x
Generosity, squished.
26 Nov 2010 Leave a Comment
in observation Tags: altruism, charity, children, children's generosity, christmas, christmas presents, donations, generosity, gifts, giving, kindness, money for christmas, role models, role models for children, unconditional giving
It was about a month before Christmas, a few years ago. I was sat at the back of a bus on the long seat warmed by the engine beneath. On the seats facing me were a woman and a boy. He looked about eight or nine years old. He called the woman Nan.
They were talking about Christmas.
She said to him “I’m gonna give you money for Christmas this year, I don’t know what to get you. You can get something nice for yourself”.
The boy smiled at this.
The bus rode on for a little way before she asked “What will you buy with the money I give you?”
He replied immediately, “I’m going to give half of the money to charity and then buy myself something with the rest”.
My heart filled with that swelling kind of feeling that you get when you hear or see someone doing or saying something really kind, that makes your eyes fill a little too.
His nan replied “I’m not gonna give you any bloody money if you’re gonna go and bloody give it away”.
My heart sank.
Family Portrait, sketch & painting.
17 Nov 2010 4 Comments
in My Artwork
Family Portrait ~ sketch and painting by Maria Warren.
Fox in the Woods
07 Nov 2010 6 Comments
in My Artwork
by Maria Warren
(Acrylic on paper. Original size – A4)
Leave Your Personality In The Window
27 Oct 2010 8 Comments
in observation
My son and I were on a train today. He had a little note pad and a pen, making some drawings. Then he wrote something on a clean page and showed it to me. He tore out the page, folded it and slipped it into the gap at the bottom of the window frame so that it was poking out. It said:
I am happy, funny, vegetarian and 11 years old. What are you like? Leave your personality in the window.
That was the first of many notes he left all over the place today, including Tate Modern and Wagamamas. The one that most amused me – slipped under the card label on a beef and tomato sandwich:
‘Try the Cheese Ploughmans, it’s much better!” :-)
