Monthly Archives: March 2010

Hetrick Martin Youth

Reaching out for help was futile at the time of my having runaway from home.  My first priority was to find housing, food and then finish High School.  My early years were a mix of abandonment and abuse, both physical and emotional.  There was no support from within my family, to reach out to my father would only result in beatings.  Choices were few, yet the ones I had to make needed to be based on preserving my being for hopefully better days in my future.  My future has been evolving since I had run away from home and continues to the present day.

Support and Friendship

The Hetrick-Martin Institute, home of the Harvey Milk High School makes resources available for youths in the exact same scenarios in which I had found my self when I was a their age, allowing those who have no support a place that acts as a stepping stone.  With the foundation of caring and believing in ones own calling, here is a place of companionship, counseling and friendship at these most critical of times in life.  It was my pleasure to sit at the Hetrick-Martin Institute and discuss the programs made available to these youths.  If during my youth I had this opportunity available my belief is I would have been educated, supported and befriended, allowing me to reach my potential as a person.

With the goals set by the staff of this institution, a youth who has great obstacles facing the most difficult period of their young lives will have a haven in which to excel.  I greatly admire their work.

Having had experience with horses , owned one in Maine, ridden in Mexico, one particular horse won my favor, allowed me joy, his name was Confetti.
Smart, fast , spirited Golden Palamino, knew of life, taught me respect for all living creatures , and has remained a cherished memory .
The subjects I choose to carve in stone have been based on emotions , visions of fanciful creatures, they have been reborn, then carved into stone.
~~Secret~~This being my first clay piece, has allowed me to venture into applying material rather the removing material in order to compose a subject.

The name ~Secret ~ was chosen for elementry reasons , seeing he is to be a gift to a young woman . This clay figure is in the first stage of production, additional detials will be added, firing then a light perhaps `amber ` glaze will finish this first clay figure , before it is shipped to my young friend whom I have not met. It is a gift from her mother to her daughter. A mothers love for her daughter has become a joint venture, one in which is still a Secret.

Good very early morning Grey Gardeners,

The wind chimes in my garden woke me, Sherman is looking into my bedroom window wanting to come in from the dawn.

The Sun has not yet reached the horizon , today is ours my friends, to make all we can of it, so I’m here , your here, and the dawn is one hour away.

It has taken my years to reach this point in my life where I could work as an artist working with my hands pursuing ideas in stone & some in clay.

Once heard from a wise friend that God gives us choices,along our way, if any choice could be ours this day let us choose to share ideas.