as written by my dad

Today we had to put down our 13 year old sweetheart, Bayly, a mini german shepherd mixed mutt, and without a doubt, the sweetest dog we have ever been proud to own.  I will never forget the looks on the kids faces when we brought her in the door on Christmas Eve, as one of the handlers from Partnership for Animal Welfare (PAW) made all the arrangements.  For those of you who have been to our house, you know that there have been at least two and sometimes as many as 4 dogs in our household.  Bayly was the oldest and ruled the other two with a quiet charm.  She took a lot from them, but had no problems letting them know who was in charge.  Row (Sharon's mom) always loved the "eyeliner" around her beautiful eyes, said it made her look like Cleopatra.  Even though her one eye came out at Christmas due to a brain tumor, and she eventually became blind in the other eye, she never complained, whimpered or let you know she was in pain.  In the end, her inability to climb the stairs and lost interest in food and water let us know that the time was right.  She will be missed. 

what what in the butt!

senior art show tuesday, 6-9

this silly website i made for class: HERE

hopefully greg can take pics of my stuff from this semester before my free dreamweaver access runs out... i said what what in the butt@!!

and ill make one thousand of them!

step one

hello process

woodcut relief prints+oil

love my job

10:04am

"Life is so wonderful and I am so happy to believe.  I am happy to be a conscious, living entity.  I am happy that I am able to feel sad, happy, angry, and all the other emotions.  Another thing that makes me happy is that I feel a connection between us.  That is something I cannot wrap my head around, much like I cannot wrap my head around the thought of there being an actual God.  I will admit, the love we share is greater than the both of us.  It is a strange force that exists, somehow.  I take great comfort in knowing that what my body contains is more than just flesh and blood.  Sometimes I wonder why I am so cynical and full of so much anger.  Every day I try to remind myself how beautiful other people are, even if they are so different from me.  When I say that all I want is for there to be universal kindness, I mean that!  I have such happy thoughts, where everyone gets along.  There is no hate.  Ahh...I feel so cliche...typical...but I really mean it!  Right now, the rain is falling.  It is wonderful, absolutely wonderful.  It's 11:39 and I feel great, the soft breeze coming through my window is very pleasant.  Thunder..I just heard thunder.  I cannot remember the last time I heard thunder."