Art in Recovery
I am a survivor of abuse and parental alcoholism. Recovery and my artistic journey coincide and interdependent. When I am thinking of art in these terms, I include all forms, Writing, Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, etc.
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Force of Will
When I was young, I was told what I was. Sometimes, those messages were bad, and I grew up with a bad opinion of myself. Adulthood has been a journey to undo the lies. Every breath I take is an act of hope that I can go forward and make my life better. Continue reading
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New Book
My book, Escape From Desolation, will be out as an eBook on 5/12/23 and available for paperback on 7/5/2023. See my book page for more information. Continue reading
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Being Known
My book, Escape From Desolation, will be out in less than a week. It is the first time I have published. I have a lot of mixed feelings about it, but my family encouraged me to take the risk. I self-published because I don’t have any connections to traditional publishing and am an unknown quantity.… Continue reading
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Little Things
When my kids were young, I made snow sculptures and forts for my kids. Sometimes I made large slides. The tops were eight feet high. My wife went crazy because there was no safety design to keep them from falling backwards. So I had to modify my slides. Cars from the neighborhood lined up to… Continue reading
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Write
I’m semi-retired but I am just getting started. It took a life time to get my priorities aligned and to put my deepest passion at the top of the list. With family responsibilities and activities, it was easy to procrastinate. For a while I had a 4 (round trip) train commute, which enabled me to… Continue reading
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Laughing
My wife tells me I don’t laugh enough. When we hear something funny, she laughs out loud, but often I am silent. She doesn’t hear the smile on my face. I tell her I’m laughing on the inside. I do enjoy a good laugh. Peter Sellers made me laugh out loud, in the theater. Politicians… Continue reading
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Any Time
After my morning coffee, until about 3 pm, I get the most done. Artistically, I can be productive anytime. I go in phases. When I’m working a big project, like a book, that takes most of my energy. But when I’m idle, I get bursts of inspiration. Sometimes I wake in the night and so… Continue reading
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Ideas
I grew up in the Golden Age of television. Every generation says they grew up in the good old days, but I remember early television programming packed with ideas and serious introspection. Maybe my memory is selective. I am a big fan of Rod Serling’s writing. I still choke up when I think about “In… Continue reading
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Getting Closer
My Escape From Desolation manuscript has been proofread and is ready to develop into a book. It’s exciting but terrifying. I’m breaking a lot of family rules about taking risks, so my mind is a chorus of ancestral voices telling me I’m crazy for trying this. Somehow, I keep moving despite the resistance. Looks like… Continue reading
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Water Pressure
I’m thinking about my art in terms of water pressure because we had a water leak in our front yard. Water was bubbling out of the ground and running down the street for a block. We loss a little bit of pressure, but if the leak was worse we might have lost all our pressure.… Continue reading
About Me
Indie author and self taught artist, creating for over fifty years, also a former corporate lawyer and systems manager … and other assorted vocations. Writing is my passion. I just released my first science fiction novel, Escape From Desolation, eBook and paperback. More information at my author page: http://escapefromdesolation.com
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