I would like to encapsulate all peoples in my blog regardless of your gender, race, religion, belief, colour, creed, physical or mental ability, political or personal viewpoints because of words that remain to this day.

“Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me.”

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I’d like to share an anecdote because I know a man whom..

..Once upon a time went ten days much without the covering of shelter, ten days without food, starving hungry yet strong as an ox that carries the heavy weight for miles around, his very last ‘five coins’ given in the form of a note to a mute homeless beggar hungry as the man is he, concrete steps for sleeping are the man’s, oh so very cold, and those metal wrought benches of ports.  New friendships were found and remembered an eternity, their having nourished him with comfort, fed delicious fried potatoes and made jolly in heart two young ladies made into a song.

There is one thing that the man who brought upon himself that strangely unusual time will never forget.  The beggar returned some three days later to the man sleeping on the port bench, the beggar having made his regular obsessional disjointed circuits of the port.  The shaggily bearded beggar’s dishevelled muted expression positively aglow with joy with his bag full of food from the ‘five coins’ he’d received.

Would you like to know what the poor mute beggar did next even to the man’s blissful surprise?  Well, the beggar full of good cheer seemingly having appeared unknowing of his mindful senses unselfishly gestured for the man to take some fruit from his bag of food.  A few oranges the man gladly accepted to make happier still further the beggar.

Whenever you might see a painted bowl of oranges they will always represent different things to different people.

To me they represent the giving and the receiving.

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If you would like to see the engraving shown above it may be viewed at The Tate Gallery in London, UK.