New game

Be happy with yourself. Enjoy time with your self. Make yourself happy. I keep living flowers because I can’t receive more energy than from flowers every day. The stories I write make me happy.

Retirement


I am now 55 years old and I’ve lost my job as mild mannered mop boy. I’ve lost my $175.00 a month allowance. I’ve lost my extensive exercise 3 times a week. I’ve lost the route of going to work and now I’m suppose to retire. No way. I’ll write stories. I’ll paint pictures. I’ll perform on stage. The biggest trill I get is achieving new goals. My latest goal is being in a University of Texas text book by Dr. Marquart in Speech Pathology. Remember Footprints in the sand? I think about painting Kodak moments, I think about writing stories. Where do I go from here?

The Wal-Mart shopping is like reliving Top Gun with Tom Cruse with the shopping carts.

One of my latest achievements is a friend and good painter took my suggestion about a painting and now he is doing a painting of a astronaut on the moon in a wheelchair with the moon scope and the Eagle in the background. It looks real good.

I look at my trophy wall
Early in the morning I get out of my bed and sit on my swivel stool with my good cup of coffee and look at my trophies. I look at two books that two of my painting were chosen for one by the city of Austin, the “I’m OK painting” and one chosen by VSA, “pastry hill”. I look at a program about actual lives show in Dallas. I look at the flyer about the art car parade then I look at my painted truck and say “WOW!” One of my lines in the show is “what makes me mad is people that won’t get out of their comfort zone. This is where you take a chance buy some flowers for yourself and say to yourself “I’m worth it.” The “I’m A OK” painting is on the wall along with 3 paintings that were chosen to reprinted on posters and the poster/paintings were sent all over the state.

I just want to be different
My driving my painted art car that was painted by a herd of kids ages 3-56. It is the most different truck on the road and now I painted a bunch of wild flowers and a big Hi! on the roof of the cab.
Then comes Actual Lives and our performance in Dallas, a one night show. When my leg came out from behind the curtains. I was dancing to “bad to the bone” and I was told that the electricity was turned on. The crowd went wild. I even heard them and now I keep thinking of my performance and how it brought the house down. This was because Emily put on “bad to the bone.” I just saw a picture of me on stage and I no longer have an athletic body. I remember I saw two cleaning ladies that were eating lunch with the mop and mop bucket and when I entered I went to the mop and hugged it and both the ladies knew that I was the one that was using the mop & Mop bucket for my part of the show. They both started laughing and asked me if I would like a taco.

Single, Handicapped, 55 years old
I am a happy camper. I always have a project. October will be Actual Lives performing at Fiesta Gardens for ADAPT 22 birthday. My paintings are in one show in Penn. And just today I found out that one of my paintings was chosen to be recopied in a book by VSA arts of Texas.
In the morning I get up early and have my good cup of coffee and think about my paintings, my art shows that I’m in and getting organized to enter more shows. I’m pulling a car for VSA in the art car parade on the 21 of October.
I sit out side and have my coffee and watch the scavenger blue jays, the squirrels, the sparrows and many other birds. One time a hawk, one time a wood duck, and one time a fox. The birdbath that I have is a dish washtub that is painted and has some marble in it and the birds go wild playing in it and every one has drinks from it.
When I get up and I am outside I see many of the mothers taking their children to school then coming back and taking their other children to the bus stop. I see the men going to work. Everything is waking up and starting to move and I’m sitting enjoying my coffee and telepathically having a conversation with God and realizing what a happy camper that I am. “ A single young man is always on the hunt.” A married female co-worker at the University of Texas. A married female co-worker at the SHAC said “A single man goes from being on the hunt. To being married and being the hunted,” This is true.