Becky Jo Minsky Artist

“Refuse To Despair” by Becky Jo Minsky (aka. Hull) (copyright 2007) Where does Inspiration come from? Someone once wrote… “we receive confirmation from the world around us”. We can find Inspiration wherever we go, whenever we need guidance. However, finding Inspiration is not nearly as important as listening to the message that Inspiration brings to our awareness and the effect it has upon us and the world we live in. Someone once wrote… “ We must cultivate Hope like precious flowers”. I don’t know who wrote that inspirational sentence, but I am grateful to that person for reminding me of what is important. Inspiration cultivates Hope. Why bother? Because Hope blooms between the darkness of the long "Dark Night of the Soul" and the "Dawn of a Momentous Day". Hope gives us strength when we need it most to endure and persevere in our endeavours, feeling our way as we go through the long Dark Night of the Soul when it is so hard to find ...

“ fear NOT . . . ” - by Becky Hull (a.k.a. Minsky) (copyright June 2009) WE cannot live through Fear, BUT Fear can live through us. IF we allow it . POSSESSED by Fear, our lives are not our own . WE cease to be our own selves . INSTEAD, Living Dead puppets, BOUND with filaments spun by Dread. PULL our strings attached, WE dance in Mindless Panic on command . MERE tools to be used and abused and manipulated . HELPING Fear grow stronger . SERVING Its purpose perverted far beyond reason . TRAVESTY of what once was survival instinct designed by Nature . ALLOWING ancestors to survive, PREVENTING extinction as a species. NOW our Fear betrays us . . . mutated . . . contaminated . . . “ WILD Animal ” part of us that would eat the rest of us alive . SURVIVAL Instinct that’s gone feral, FOAMING at the mouth with perpetual perceptual rabies . PSYCHOTIC, amoral, Most Cunning Dark Creature of the Psyche, SHADOW of Humanity . . . SERVANT of the Anti - Mind . I know You for Who and What You Reall...