I’ve got a new book. It’s About Life. And we’ve got a show coming up. I want you to know about them both. In fact, the show will be a combined book signing.

At 8″x 8″ it’s a small coffee table book (perfect for a small coffee table).

The book has been about a year in the making, maybe two if you include the writing I was doing before I realized that it would be a book. That all came from the “Blank Slate,” my other blog on this website. As the Amazon blurb describes it, it’s “A personal take on the biblical book of Ecclesiastes, with 76 succinct essays, accompanied by 56 drawings from the author’s sketchbook. A very positive and realist outlook on life, salted and peppered with wit.”

In the London Portrait Gallery, a sketch that later became a painting.

The drawings come from various of my sketchbooks, the kind of which I’ve been filling, with both words and drawings for years. The fact is, my first sketchbooks were only for words, drawing came later, and then painting. The drawing was mainly diversionary during meetings or whatever, then became practice as I began to take my art more seriously. This is the first time they’ve been published or seen at all but by very few.

I designed the book with an intentional open layout with lots of white space.

The “essays” are short, pithy, and can be read in any order. They’re often a light touch on a heavy subject. They’re sometimes reflective, sometimes philosophical, sometimes motivational, and generally upbeat—in spite of what people think about the book of Ecclesiastes. For years that’s been a favorite of mine. This is my chance to reveal why. Available on this website, along with a special price for multiple copies. They make great gifts! (For more info or to order, click below.)

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Available for $14.95 at Amazon,

or signed copies directly from this website.

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Carrying the Burden, 10×20, monotype by Anne Moore.

Here’s the full version of one of Anne’s wonderful works, as used on the show invitation below. Using it that small just didn’t do it justice. Nor does this. By the way, besides the show at our house on the 23rd and 24th, she is the featured artist this month at SANDSTONE GALLERY. That opening is the Art Walk this coming Thursday evening (Nov. 7) at 384 North Coast Highway, Laguna Beach.

Meadow Walk 4, 20×30, oil, by Hyatt Moore.

For a similar reason, here’s a larger rendition of the tiny sample on the invitation. For a fuller view yet, click the link, and then that link. This and many more will be on display at the studio show.

Classy Lady, Broad Hat, 20×16, oil, by Allison (Moore) Adams.

Daughter Allison paints, though her MFA is in theater and lately she’s been making more of an impact with her creative photography. She has just a few oil paintings to show, but they will be part of the offering. Not sure about the title of that painting, I just made it up. Maybe it should be Hat Lady, Classy Broad?
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Here’s the invitation to the show.

Come and feel free to bring others.

PS My mother’s funeral is Friday. For any that missed that tribute, it was the most recent Blank Slate, here.