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During the 70’s and early 80’s I was selling some of my art, going to art shows and received a number of awards for my art. In the early 80’s I decided to pursue a BRE degree. I payed for part of my ed. by buying and selling stuff at flee markets.

English, jibberish

Until I start making a good profit: my life is a Hobby! I love to do art, teach, and tinker in my garrage

The Bible, 90 Minutes in Heaven - (WOW what a great experiance)

on January 12, 2001 I had a work related accident. God works in strange ways. The PTO driver on a tractor hit me in the head. I received a closed head injury which resulted in me needing to leave a job I had loved. I worked at an inner city rescue mission about 12 years as the support services director. Now I could not work like I did before. A strange thing happened I started to draw and paint more and more after my accident. After this accident I found myself enjoying doing art more than ever.(More in my history)

My involvement in the art world actually started over thirty years ago when I was in my teens. I loved doing many types of art but was strongly encouraged to pursue other areas of training and work instead of being a starving artist. First I trained to do some kind of ministry, then teaching, and then construction……Then I worked in many different jobs. I have worked in a few different ministries and non-profit organizations. I really loved the work I did at an inner city mission. I was working at a mission when about seven years ago a couple things happened that changed my life drastically. (Continued under -the accident)

In 2001, mid-January (in Michigan that is another way of saying unbelievably cold) I was working on a tractor removing the brush hog (a heave mower on the back of the tractor).I was kneeling between the back tires pounding on the pin (oh yes- I was on crutches for a leg injury at the time) when the PTO (power takeoff unit – the bar that spins between the tractor and the mower) engaged and started spinning even though it had been locked out. They tell me this is a 20-40 pound pipe and the speed it travels at when not hooked to a mower is incredible. It hit me in the back of the head crushing the basal bone in my skull (I’m told this is the single hardest bone in your body). By all rights, humanly speaking, I should have been dead. I know if I had died that day I would be in a much better place with my Lord and Savior but God had other plans. My recovery through it took time. (Continued under -disabled Christian artist)

At first My recovery from the head injury seemed to be going quickly. . I had a closed head injury had lost hearing in one ear (which I regained part of later) and I had lost my sense of balance. It was later discovered that as a result of the closed head injury I had lost my concentration (I became attention deficit). My attention span was about 3 seconds, and I had almost complete short term memory loss as well as some reduction in certain cognitive skills. (I’m told that just means it is harder for me to do some things mentally then it was before the accident.) Much of these effects are at least somewhat controlled through meds and therapy. But as a result of all this I am no longer able to do most of the things that I had trained for. Almost all of my loss was in left brain function and I found that my creative (right brain) was more fulfilling and enjoyable for me than ever. Praise God I’m still alive to enjoy this stage in my life.