Christmas

I am enjoying my holiday off away from the school deadlines and traveling back and forth to Sackville everyday out on the road hitch hiking. This Christmas is an unexpectedly different one for me, but every Christmas brings particular blessings, little and big miracles and surprises, and for many of us it is a difficult time. It is always  bitter sweet because I always think about those of us that experience the season with a variety of challenges. Especially those who are in need in one way or another.

Many folks rush around, getting their underwear in a knot, stressing about purchasing gifts, aimlessly wondering the malls, going in debt for one day. Christmas is much more than one day. I always leave up some of my decorations throughout the year to remind me of the Spirit of Christmas which I want to remain, every day within my heart. Life is about our relationships with those we love, and with our fellow man. Christmas brings this all into focus.

We all have a choice as to how we celebrate the season and life. I pray to the Creator that I become a better person this Christmas and for the coming year. Because I am a person in recovery the Serenity Prayer is a very important powerful prayer and part of my daily walk in life until I am released from the earthly cord.

An Exceptional Day and Visiting Artist - Ben Reeves

This has been an exceptional day for me. One I hope I will not ever forget. I am very very grateful. Without spilling my guts and going into detail about my personal shit storms I will simply say I have had a miracle today. Not because I deserve it. But because I have some very special friends that I know prayed for me and I want to say thank you so much.


I had a studio visit with Ben Reeves today. I was really quite amazed with what he had to say; his thoughts about art, artists and art schools. I think he is quite an exceptional artist of intelligence and integrity. I could have spent the afternoon taking with him. I have had just two studio visits with artists and they both have been very beneficial but Ben Reeves, I have to say has great clarity of thought, perception and knowledge.

I look forward to hearing his presentation tonight.

I Am Not A Zombie

One good thing about not having wheels you walk a lot more! However not my idea of a pleasant jaunt for 45 minutes in a raging snow storm!

I spent the night in the No Tell Motel and in the middle of the night I woke up thinking oh crap do I have enough money to pay the bill? Fortunately I did and then some.

If I can get through the next 14 days back and forth to school I will definitely consider myself a walking miracle!

I am grateful to be alive! Think of all those people who are dead, and some of them are walking upright. Zombies I call them.

“Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system.” - Sam Keen