Art and thoughts by Roger Vincent Jasaitis

This Speaks My Mind

  • A Moment of Summer, Maine

      This lighthouse is the second oldest light in Maine. The conical tower on Burnt Island is built of granite likely quarried on the island and stands thirty feet tall. The four-foot thick walls at the tower’s base have given it such stability that it has never been rebuilt, and today it is the second-oldest original…

  • Tinker, Lamb of Dog

    We are mourning the loss of our beloved dog Tinker this week. She was a part of our lives for over 15 years. With a big personality, strong willed, and independent, she leaves a big empty space in our hearts. Our pets waggle their way into our hearts and become family members intimate with our…

  • Computer as Religion

    OZ’S VOICE Do you presume to criticize the Great Oz? You ungrateful creatures! Think yourselves lucky that I’m giving you audience tomorrow, instead of twenty years from now. Oh — oh oh! The Great Oz has spoken! Oh — Oh —…. LS — Shooting past the Four at left to the Wizard as he pulls back the curtain…

  • Free Your Mind

    You are not your thoughts. This is something that is quite apparent to me while Worshiping or meditating. When you Worship silently or meditate the first thing you notice is that your mind is filled with distracting thoughts; things that you need to do, things that you have done, trains of thought running in every…

  • Be Who You Are…

      “This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.” Hamlet Act 1, scene 3, William Shakespeare I spied this graffiti board on the Landmark College campus and this bit of wisdom jumped out at me; Be Who…