This is from the book, ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS by Janet Geringer Woititz. I’m sure the list is incomplete, but these bits are essential. Vulnerability Understanding Empathy Compassion Respect Trust Acceptance Honesty Communication Compatibility Personal Integrity Consideration Tags: relationship, relationships, …
2006-08-13 Ingredients for a successful relationship Read more »
Last night I was sitting at the Seattle Coffee Company in Hyde Park, with a whole bunch of books from the Exclusive Books next door. One of them was ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS by Janet geringer Woititz. She lists a …
2006-08-11 Illustration Friday — PlayOriginally uploaded by royblumenthal. This week’s Illustration Friday topic is ‘Play’. I searched stock.xchng for ‘poker’ and ‘cards’, and found two reference images which I combined in CorelDraw. One was A good poker hand for me …
2006-08-10 Illustration Friday — Capture Originally uploaded by royblumenthal. This week’s Illustration Friday topic is ‘Capture’. I’ve just extricated myself from a co-dependent relationship. And this pic really illustrates co-dependence for me. Here we’ve got a cat… ostensibly the captor, …
‘S’ and I are fully broken up. She had some kind of a fling with someone in Cape Town two nights ago, and has been carefully keeping the information away from me. Doing a bit of a Bill Clinton. We …
‘S’ kisses someone to clarify her feelings for me. Bye bye, ‘S’. Read more »
2006-07-30 Long Dark Teatime of the Zoloft Originally uploaded by royblumenthal. I’m now on my fifth day of starting Zoloft, a medication akin to Prozac, used for fighting depression, and, in my case anxiety. I’ve been distrustful of psychiatry for …
Here are some of my voice-clips, in case you were thinking of using me as a voice artist. Thanks to the wonders of ISDN, and the fact that South Africa has a very highly advanced advertising industry, I’m available to …
Roy Blumenthal, Voice-Over Artist, gives you some sample clips of his voice Read more »
2006-07-27 Illustration Friday — Clean Originally uploaded by royblumenthal. The topic for Illustration Friday this week is ‘Clean’. Which gives me the excuse to paint my bathroom. And to reflect a bit on clean starts in relationships. I’m working through …
2006-07-27 Roy Blumenthal Self Portrait After Chatting To ‘S’ Originally uploaded by royblumenthal. Just had a long chat to ‘S’ on the phone. She’s in Cape Town. I’m in Joburg. When she left to drive down, we parted under a …
2006-07-27 Roy Blumenthal Self Portrait After Chatting To ‘S’ Read more »
Roy Blumenthal Originally uploaded by fionalongart. Yesterday I painted a portrait of Fiona Long, a British artist I came across on Flickr. Today I found a surprise in my inbox… this awesome watercolour portrait of me by her. Thanks Fiona. …