This Little Piggy

In an earlier post I recounted my first experiences of encouragement to draw. 'You should be out drawing,' they often said. Well, I have taken their advice. I've been out drawing everywhere: park benches, community centres, cafeterias, lounges... That comparison I drew this morning between the temporary body and the immortal soul made me think of Bob Marley. He refused treatment for cancer because it required an amputation. In his religion, the physical body must be kept whole. But in Matthew, Jesus tells us to cut off our hand or put out our eye if it threatens our spiritual integrity. Better to enter heaven as a blind amputee than for your whole body to be thrown into Gehenna was how he put it, in so many words. Clearly he saw the physical body as disposable. I had an opportunity one time to be a test subject for surgeons. I was told they paid a lot of money if you let them amputate one of your digits and sew it back on again. (While I heard this during an all-nighter for an experimental heart pill, it could be a lie.) Anyway, I have to take Jesus's side. I already lost a knee.
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