| An incurable
romantic, I fell in love with poetry when I was very young.
It helped express and connect me with an inner world that
felt alien to the family and the cultural milieu in which
I was raised.
In my twenties songs
increasingly spoke to what I was going through and I tried
my hand at song writing. In my late twenties, a trip across
country turned me on to a love of photography which I still
enjoy today.
After much struggle
to resolve childhood issues that precluded the possibility
of intimacy, in my early thirties I started a family. Fatherhood
became the most wonderful and fulfilling adventure of my
life.
Shortly after my 45th
birthday I lost my eldest son in an automobile accident.
Struggling to cope with my loss and the many old wounds
it reopened, I found painting as a guide to help me through
the dark labyrinth of my grief. The struggle became a journey
that helped me reconnect with large parts of myself that
had been buried underneath childhood trauma and locked away
from my soul. I
have told my story in a book I have published in the hope that it might touch and help others
that are struggling with their own journey in life. |