“Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with golden lacquer. It teaches us to embrace damage and flaws.” — ManGill. For most of my adult life I have helped repair the sick. Many had their lives suddenly shattered and altered forever. It was a job at which I was quite good. Recently, the… Read more

“A mindful practice, disguised as productivity…” Ruder Carroll We all enter raffles with a mixed sense of hope, charity, guilt, obligation, awkwardness and eventually disappointment. You know what I mean, hearing the “winner is an orange ticket…” when your handful are all blue. Well not any more for me, I finally had success.To be exact,… Read more

“An artist can not fail, it is a success just to be one…” Charles Horton Cooley One of the best parts of my life in the last few years has been art. There has been the learning of new skills and techniques. This inevitably leads to dives into the fascinating subject of art history, many… Read more