Stuart Sheldon
5 Years in the Faraway
Five years is a hefty chunk in a life. Moving to Costa Rica with our kids in 2018 was the luckiest thing I’ve ever done.
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Stuart Sheldon
- Aug 4, 2022
- 6 min
Calm and Kind
It’s been well over a year since my last blog post … and what a year. Make that 4 years! That’s how long we’ve lived in Costa Rica. We...
Stuart Sheldon
- Mar 24, 2021
- 4 min
Follow The Bubbles
Follow the Bubbles 3, Acrylic on our Costa Rica architectural plans, 31.5x23.5" 2000 “On the third day, my room became a cell, which...
Stuart Sheldon
- May 27, 2020
- 4 min
Time to Swan Dive!
Our dads laughed in college together and later, Ron Rothberg and I giggled side-by-side in diapers. We haven't stopped laughing since....
Stuart Sheldon
- Dec 11, 2019
- 5 min
It’s Such a Perfect Day*
Behold the Perfect Moment / Perfect Family / Perfect Life* In this recent photo, a gorgeous family camps on a faraway beach in paradise,...
Stuart Sheldon
- Jun 11, 2019
- 4 min
What I Learned in My Bucket List Year in Costa Rica … by Leo Tolstoy
“We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there...
Stuart Sheldon
- Mar 12, 2019
- 4 min
Where You From? Where You Been? Where You Going?
Standing shoulder to shoulder as our kids sprinted down field last year, I casually mentioned to a fellow Miami soccer/surfer dad that we...
Stuart Sheldon
- Feb 5, 2019
- 4 min
Didn’t Know What I Didn’t Know
“A distressingly large portion of the world doesn’t do you any good whatsoever. In fact, it does you bad. Casts static between your ears,...
Stuart Sheldon
- Nov 27, 2018
- 3 min
King of The Jungle
“Dust everywhere… and out of that emerged this beautiful boy with the bluest eyes I’d ever seen, holding his hand out to help me to my...
Stuart Sheldon
- Nov 1, 2018
- 3 min
A Hole Is To Dig
We’ve been in the faraway jungle nearly three months, and one enormous benefit I’ve noticed is how much less decision-making I face each...
Stuart Sheldon
- Oct 11, 2018
- 3 min
Two Months in the Jungle
Moments after the car honked and we kissed the kids goodbye for another school day, backpacks on their shoulders, I heard excited voices...
Stuart Sheldon
- Sep 12, 2018
- 2 min
We Left America
More precisely, as reminded by our local friends, we left the United States. We still live in America, Central America. Playa Grande,...
Stuart Sheldon
- May 29, 2018
- 2 min
I Love Libraries – Museum of Contemporary Art Miami Exhibition Opens THIS THUR, May 31
The only thing that you absolutely have to know is the location of the library. Albert Einstein I just spent a...
Stuart Sheldon
- Mar 7, 2018
- 3 min
Like, Really Smart
A friend called me excitedly last year out of the blue. “I have an idea for one of your spiral paintings. What if you did all of Trump’s...
Stuart Sheldon
- Dec 6, 2017
- 2 min
We’re All Pink Inside
A few months into dating my wife-to-be, we hit a rough patch and I thought I’d blown it. Utterly devastated, I wrote her a poem titled,...
Stuart Sheldon
- Oct 25, 2017
- 3 min
The American Dream in Postage Stamps
To know my immigrant story, watch Fiddler On The Roof. My ancestors, peasants in Poland, died in Auschwitz and arrived thru Ellis Island...
Stuart Sheldon
- Sep 20, 2017
- 2 min
Dystopia the Beautiful – My 1st London Exhibition Opens Sep 28 – Oct 13
Burnt, Acrylic, American flag and inkjet book cover on canvas, 35″ x 19″ 2017. AVAILABLE. “I’m jus’ pain covered with skin.” John...
Stuart Sheldon
- May 31, 2017
- 3 min
Artist March June 14th
We each have a song inside. We just need a bit of courage to sing it. I co-founded the Worldwide Artist March because, in our so-called...
Stuart Sheldon
- Mar 8, 2017
- 2 min
Go Find Yourself, Go Fund Yourself
My father before the Best Books Ever Written piece he inspired – Thank You Dad, acrylic, book covers, paper, oil crayon on canvas,...
Stuart Sheldon
- Feb 21, 2017
- 3 min
Friday Night Lights
In the Emmy-winning series, Friday Night Lights, actress Connie Britton slays as a smart woman in a dumb town. In Dillon, TX, where high...
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