Category: Life Matters

  • Changes

    Changes

    I have an addiction. Well, yes, to chocolate, but that’s mostly under control. I am addicted to drawing. I have to draw. My parents fed me a healthy diet of vegetables, fruits, protein, paper, and crayons. Mom said I drew on the walls one afternoon; I never ran out of paper again. Perhaps that explains…

  • Cracked Shell

    Cracked Shell

    My father gifted me Kahlil Gibranโ€™s The Prophet in my early teens, on the cusp of adulthood. Gibranโ€™s words today echo a lifetime of experiences, but then, as a young man reading them for the first time, I sensed a truth that answered an as-yet-unasked question. Gibran’s words were profound yet simple enough to break…

  • The Seven-Degree Artist

    The Seven-Degree Artist

    The Seven-Degree Artist My disease is measured in degrees: 180โ€ฆ 170โ€ฆ 150โ€ฆ 125โ€ฆ 100โ€ฆ 70โ€ฆ 40โ€ฆ 20โ€ฆ 17โ€ฆ 15โ€ฆ 12โ€ฆ 10โ€ฆ 9โ€ฆ 7โ€ฆ Iโ€™m hoping that I never get to zero. I started with the normal 180 degrees of peripheral vision, the vision used to the left and right, above and below what our central…

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