Happy Birthday

Today the 28th Day of August is La Roo's 50th Birthday. I was injured in an automobile accedent back in 1976 so that make's me a 30 year survivor of a spinal cord injury. The only reason I bring that up is that when I was hurt the doctor told me that 35 would be it for me. I wasn't sure weather or not he was saying that I would last to age 35 or I would live 35 more years after my accedent. I took it as I wouldn't make it past age 35 and lived life to its fullest. I drank from a full cup for 16 years before I realized that the doctor must have meant 35 more years meaning I have 5 left on his count watch but I feel like a kid and think I will way outlive the perdicted 35 more years.

This morning I woke up and went and drank coffee at the coffee shop and then went to the Junior College that I only had 3 credit hours to complete my AA degree after 30 years of going on and off. Well it turns out that I am lacking 22 hours so that means I went to college for like six long years and still have 22 hours to go to get my aa... Something seems rotten in denmark but hey what the heck when you reach my age who cares. Thank god I don't have to take that entrance exam like the days of old. Since have taken that thing 4 times already and each time I had to go to 4 years of prepetory classes before I got one credit hour. I pray that doesn't happen this time. But anyway I filled out the form and will take my documents to start college in 3 weeks. It should be a real trip. I am going to take one class at a time till it's all over. Seven more classes will get me my degree so I think that is what I will do. It should be fun and it is a great way to keep me busy in my aging days.

This was my weekend and I was surrounded with family. I love my family with all my might and my friends have been feeling really good to me lately too. I think that I have a great life with people that love me and a nice home with a dog and if I ever needed anything there a friend is to help me. I have never in my life have what I have right at this moment in time. I am 50 years old and the world has said that money doesn't make a person rich it is if you can count your friends on one hand then you are a very rich man. I never met a person I didn't like it's just the things people do that upsets me every once in a while but that doesn't make anyone on my bad side. I have every thing in life that a man could possibly want. I know that it might not stay that way I may be rich or I may be poor, I may be sick or I might feel great I haven't gotten a clue to what tomorrow has in store for me but for right now I am in love with ever opening eye and every breath of air I take. I pray and wish above all that everyone in the world would feel the way I am feeling right now.

This is the time that art should flow from the fingers and it does I just can't bring myself to sit still long enough to create. Creation is so draining but it must be done when it is available and flowing. Remember that there is sacrafice with art and every artist knows that he suffers to make the perfect piece of art may it be stone, wood, words, or canvas. When my body is in pain and I am home all alone sleeping my life away I would love to have the want to create but my words come to me when I am busy doing life and living in it so the world suffers for my selfisness but the work is fuller with the experiences of more life. No one really looses as an artist has no real completed work of art till it is complete and that happens when the artist is ready to share it with the world.

Love your chosen profession and learn from it and the people you work with because the art that flows out of your heart on those days you feel like creating will come out in ways that you never could have without the process of taking in so much beauty or discust and bringing it out in your art. Every thing that this world has growing, or built creations that coexist in this place we call our neighborhoods but it is all material for an artist to create beauty for the inhaitants to reflect and understand their places in it.

Peace and Out

La Roo