Time to take time before spring turns to fall….

 Well I know it’s been awhile since I last wrote….

Today I am recovering from a procedure on my legs I didn’t tell anyone but a few growths left men in fear that the C was back now as I heal I hope this is all behind me… Today I have had the end to a very difficult week my problems seemed small …a week ago I lost a woman who was an acquaintance that had a profound impact on my life her sweetness as marked the heroine in most of my plays as has her trademark hair and then I came home from the hospital to a phone message that left me stunned… my friend was gone, I seldom cry but he was a true friend ,honest and pure others saw him as many things but I was lucky enough to know the man and the child; we would talk occasionally over the last couple of decades yet it was always as though no time had passed.  when he was in need I he knew I was there… yet when I was in need he would stand as a true friend, maybe the only friend who never betrayed me and always was true… today I’m alone and I admit filled with a tear, I will always treasure the pictures together and the memories will never fade …my friend may today you finally find peace….I love you more….

go out to day and call an old friend and let them know  how much they mean to you before it’s too late…

Thank you to everyone for writing and calling I really appreciate each of you (Kelly & Karla in the big O state) we love you guys and it meant a lot to hear from you …  first let me say a few things once Brian and I worked hard and cell phones ect were a necessity now we work hard but take time to enjoy our lives, that’s why we only carry cell phones when we are working and no one outside of immediate family and Diane at the office have the numbers. The phone is a work tool and a communication device not a life line…. if you want us call or write and leave a message … we check our phone and mail daily and return calls set up appointments and confirm time with friends… just like everyone did last century…It works… make a date with us at a specific time and we are yours, not the phones or texting world just all yours….when you have my attention you have my attention and its not divided by 100 others. yet I now have come to expect your attention as well if your hooked to your phone or texting through our conversation don’t be surprised if it’s our last together… life is to short and 95% of all the calls and texts can wait or were not even important…so why fill your life with wasted time and trivial gossip…. unplug yourselves … don’t check sites everyday  use the net as a guilty pleasure a way of keeping in touch and not a lifeline or social network …connect in the real world even if we are lifelong friends  the occasion contact to know we are in each others thoughts is enough… to connect with a stranger over coffee is far more important that connecting with a school friend on line nightly yet never  seeing each other face to face… we need real contact not cyber so when I don’t post or do so sparingly it is not a sign of doom and gloom but a sign of life and I’ll always pop back t share bits with you … I value my cyber friends but I treasure my real world encounters ……yes the last bit has been a rollercoaster but a good one…so please keep in touch but relax and remember when I meet you on the street that’s our time together and 5 mins there is more important that years on line because I can look in your eyes and feel your heart and you mine… if you see me out and about please come and talk if its a bad moment I’ll say and I promise I’ll set up a better time to meet  after all strangers are friend who I’ve yet to sit don and talk with …write and I’ll read but say hello and I’ll treasure our time….

Now for catch up….

A bright spot was in may I was asked to attend a local production of Riverside’s “the sound of Music” 4 hours on a plane 5 hours more in cars and we were finally there Riverside high school production … I was uncertain as to what to expect the last high school invitation I accepted was years ago (I had lectured in the school so I had to attend) this time I was pleasantly awakened. the cast and facility had put together a production filled with heart and passion…this is what theatre is meant to be fun and exciting … messing up a line but remembering on you know you messed up and continuing to the crescendo…these actors their stage crew and all involved created an illusion that engulfed the audience in the story and music. They did a wonderful job and they inspired me when I needed it most John Mackenzie and his talent with words translated to his passion on stage; one day I look forward to him delivering my words on the stage…. I was then back home where a professional theatre group would strengthen my resolve by showing the heart and passion that has waned in so many of this generation… that night I would somehow end up buying a production for later this summer of a new play which has led to an unending stream of work to create a one of a kind night for this wonderful play…   and after months of no desire to create I can say the block has ended over the last year the only pieces we wanted to work on were for the three churches in Cape Breton Canada now we are back and working with a vengeance….

A muse has spoken to our hearts and work is flowing as our work finds a new groove…more on this later…

I had to give a presentation of the Washington symphony in the spring and I’ll admit to jitters the whose who crowd heard canned versions of Otis work with me caring the dialogue during the meal and then I had to take to the stage with pieces that only the orchestra and I had ever heard …. scary but it was a hit and I was again green lighted  the desire to create the symphony is almost 20 years of my life and the active pursuit of the commission the last decade and now as it nears completion I still can’t believe its really coming together…bringing Otis on board was a wonderful choice as his perspective blends the pieces wonderfully when all is said and done my only regret will be he didn’t get to perform live to feel the magic … the next time the council meets will be that last peak and then its Showtime… I feel like I’ve walked on the moon…..

This week was the Tony’s and got to say Neil did a bang up job… first time we met Neil he was doggie Houser  and just reading his performance in PROOF with Anne Heich …almost a decade later he has emerged as one of Americas great talents … while always remaining true to himself… he and David were a wonderful couple on the red carpet and an example to all who saw them …this is what integrity and talent earn the respect of the American public Neil Patrick Harris has become my hero….Anglia Lansbury and Jane Fonda … Dolly Parton and Liza it was gay mans heaven… as we were dressing Diane found a box of memorabilia we kept from the Tony’s …with my lucky bow tie… our first tickets were 30.00 each so many years ago; this year they toped 400.00 each…funny thing Angila  Lansbury was nominated then also… at least some things never change!  We made a quick trip to nyc  and to be honest I hate it I need my city fix not a day here and there…just to relax and not work; so to everyone back home I’ll be there soon….

One final thought  today… my prayers are with Tony and Charlene Marshall sometimes it seems the world turns on good people, Tony and Charlene are my heroes many years ago they gave us  a break and helped change our world to them is was just another day… they have been painted them in a bad light with greed and money their god … this is so not true… the gossip columns say a lot but before you judge remember it isn’t always as it seems and I for one stand beside Tony and Charlene… to the new Yorkers so quick to condemn shame you know there’s always more to the story ….

When I lost my virginity….the one and only…

I first wrote this over a year ago after Bea sent me the Sex and the septuagenarian video, today i came home from a wonderful afternoon where every meeting went perfect… I think we even found the perfect Christ model … then we got the message that Bea was gone… i admit it hasn’t sunk in yet I can still here her voice and her laugh, she was a once in a lifetime friend and I’ll tresure every memory …. Her  theme songs said it all…

Lady Godiva was a freedom rider,
she didn’t care of the whole world looked.
Joan of Arc, with the lord to guide her,
she was a sister who really cooked.
Isadora was a first  Bra burner
Aint’ ya glad she showed up?
And when the country was falling apart 
Betsy Ross got it all sewed up
And then there’s Maude
And then there’s Maude
And then there’s that old compromisin, enterprisin’ anything but traqulizin’

Right on Maude!!!            

 Right On Bea and thank you for being a Friend……………..

Sex and the City is back…

It’s been awhile and the girls have aged in TV Land…

Bea Arthur (Golden Girls/ Maude) Sally Struthers (All in the Family) Charlotte Rea (Facts of Life) Katherine Helmond (Who’s the Boss / Soap) and Abe Vigoda (Barney Miller) give us septuagenarians and city. Take a peak and have a laugh the girls prove you’re never to old for a good…

 

A few years back, Brian and I left the Booth Theater on a hot date with a septuagenarian a night with Bea Arthur it was a night I’ll never forget! We were promised a night so hot, sweet and creamy so sensual our bodies would tremble so intoxicating we’d need to come back for more… so powerful we’d give up men!

 

She promised us, experience made a difference. She told me to close my eyes and touch, now remember its Bea I looking at, so it took trust! She was right soft yet firm the crevices and wrinkles didn’t matter it was sensual; with my eyes closed I could tell the difference…softer than I was used to… She said to keep my eyes closed and move in low just above the hole, I was disgusted I can’t handle the smell of yeast. She held still and guided my face in, I was scared …I’ll never forget it; it was so amazing like the finest aged wine the scent was impossible to describe, addictive… she was right she could make me give up men!

 

She asked me to trust her again and gently run my tongue along the edge of the hole, to feel the texture on my tongue and lips by now it was sticky, but I did it any way . I couldn’t handle it any more, she had done as promised that night a golden girl took my virginity! I was an animal I had to take the first bite …. My first Krispy Kreme Dounut I was hooked …the taste, the aroma there is truly nothing like it… once I tried one they truly were like sex you need more… When I watch the Golden Girls I think of that night, we talked all night about sex and food; good god, I’m getting old…

Spring…

It seems that time has been flying…. and either my dyslexia is worse or old age is creeping up!!!! Easter in Canada never felt right so We always spend the weekend in Washington this year we stayed in Halifax and couldn’t have planned a more wonderful weekend, Good Friday was spent over dinner with friends old and new, as one struggled with the potential of a spouse dying any day another was learning to cope with the rebuilding of life, a new friend brought back memories of orange juice and Ouzo bringing me to an Easter weekend long ago as a youth in Athens, another taught me I could love an actress and be inspired all over again by Shakespeare. As the weekend progressed we were changed as we felt r renewed excitement that had been missing, a Saturday afternoon with Elizabeth reminded me what I love about the arts … by Sunday I was resurrected… Billy, Otis and Marcel were withy us in spirit if not at the table and well talked about , as one was proud of her husbands legacy another was proud of her brothers Olympic triumph , yet another was proud of a daughter who would kidnapper her to New York for a weekend each knew the real value of life , the memories the love and the moments together are the real treasures of our life as we gathered some missing family half a world away we came together from all over the world to share the real meaning of Easter … a never ending circle of life… On another note I always answer the majority questions that come in, Brian and I have been asked to teach again sculpting methods as we did last summer and we are looking into it … I have been asked to talk about writing and help with so many scripts and songs it would be imposable so begging this week I will set up a part of this site where I will discuss the creation of New York live, showing you how important a knowledge of musical theatre history is if you plan on going to the next level of the art you have to know where you came from… so tune in next week and maybe we can inspire each other, I want to thank John M in Moncton NB Canada for a wonderful Birthday gift that became the reason for this course of the web site…. Keep your card and letters coming I do enjoy them… Our son Bill’s Birthday was this week and we’ll sit down again on Saturday together we are so very lucky to have such a wonderful son… Otis next week and then the celebrations are done till mid summer…. Three scripts are in re writes and the bicentennial Lincoln sculpture is completed; the sculptures for Cape Breton are coming along nicely and all in all it should be a wonderful summer….

It’s been hurry up and wait kind of month….

Our newest family member “cuddles” had her first photo session I’ll post pictures this weekend; I’m living with my allergies and they are subsiding… she has never done anything like what she did for my birthday …its as though she knew and was loving beyond kissing and cuddling when morning came she woke me with purrs and head butts eye to eye on the pillow she cuddled her cheek to mine and then gave me a present … yes a mouse! The scream rivalled the eruption of Vesuvius her first mouse my birthday present…. our dog boomer gave us bones our monkey Munchie gave us bugs … but I draw the line at mice…. I made Brian clean out the whole room…. yes I’m sure I looked like Horton as a freaked over a mouse… yet when all was done, looking in her eyes I wish I had been able to accept her present with gratitude she was different for the rest of the day… the moral is easy no matter the gift if given with love it means as much or more to the giver than the recipient… so smile accept the love… and don’t re-gift it.. Bury it in the yard if you have no use…. We’ve been all over last month… New York and Washington had wonderful spring weather; I didn’t want to come back to Nova Scotia where yes upon our arrival it snowed TWICE! 2 trips I return to snow… maybe the time has come and its God’s way of saying good bye Canada? The sculptures for cape Breton are proceeding wonderfully, we have events in Washington almost daily from April 24th to may 6th a play in Moncton New Brunswick on may 14th that nothing will stop us from attending (even famous maritime snow) and then the directors guild in New York city on the 15-16 should prove to be busy yet fun weeks ahead. Because of our position of supporting human rights and gay rights we have had to accept that freaks and geeks will always threaten us so we are heeding advice and not publishing our schedule in advance ….you know the cities we’ll be in please don’t hesitate to drop a note and hopefully we can spend a bit of time with our friends and fans… as always we will have open house event for coffee at each destination and we’ll email you an invitation. All is well, I’m another day older and Brian and Billy got me the coolest gift ever!!! Its such fun I’m sure its illegal… and I will use it for the rest of my life… I’ll even get to share it with some of you over the years to come…. but I’ll never tell you what it is!!! Even mom said it was the most amazing gift and dad would have though he died and went to heaven if he had gotten it… I feel like a billionaire Jed Clammpet eat your heart out…. Also a thank you to friends who called and especially those who surprised me … first was Anne rice and Les, I was sitting in my underwear writing with a coffee unshaven, you get the picture when a knock on the door and there is Les and Anne…it nice to know my friends love me enough to spend a day with me when I looked like hell!! It was a wonderful surprise… followed by a great impromptu party …hunter ,Jo ,Kane and a group of friends flew in to kidnap us for the day …. It almost made turning 29 easy… Yes 29 it’s not that I’m lying about my age its just 29 is the last year I can easily remember so if you want to know the real age ask just be sure you have a calculator cause you have to count the years on the drivers licences … so cool my new licences has a picture! And it wasn’t issued by hennery ford…. Have a great day and we’ll talk before Easter….

March blows in…

I know, I know its been forever since I updated  yes I’m still alive just old enough to know there are times to keep your mouth shut or you’ll say something…

By now you all know I stand behind what I say and I will gladly admit if by some chance I’m  wrong so rather that say something I would rather not I stayed silent…. it was a long month!

So let’s catch up you have written me with hundreds of questions, and I’ll try to make myself clear I don’t give personal advice. When I tell you about the screw-up I’ve made it’s in the hope I help you avoid the same stupidity…each of us is unique in our circumstance so don’t think I have any answers like everyone I get through on trial and error.  To those of you who have written for advice on your work or questions from classes I’ve lectured at I am reading your letters and will answer just give me a bit of time to catch up …

By this summer, you won’t be able to find a Virgin anywhere.

It’s no official The virgin chain will go the way of the record , the mega stores in Times Square and Union Square were my favourite haunts with Tower records gone Lincoln center to the bowery it will be hard to buy a Video or CD with any real selection…porn magazines are closing up, newspapers are closing up and now video and record stores everything this generation dose is online….I guess now a whole generation will get their movies music and news , the same way they get their sex…ALONE!

It’s a sad way to live, and its no wonder the economy is crashing, no employees no overheard no pleasure shopping …progress?

 To all who are asking about my tooth! The surgery to remove it is next week they’ll put me out for it … not sure how I like that idea.

My allergies are in overdrive  and at times I can hardly breath but not a single regret “Cuddles “ our newest family member is the most loving little girl many have asked and I didn’t know the answer  but now I do yes she is  a Siamese Cat (that we all knew) and of the traditional breed (cuter face I’ve discovered) and please no Siamese cat shirts .cups pins or pictures although I appreciate the thought I have no room or need , you thoughts and hand written notes are the real treasures (Thank You)

The scripts are coming along, and I am doing final research checks on Goodnight Mr. President.

In February we went to the centennial of flight in Baddeck Nova Scotia, it was amazing, ill post Links to the ford theatre bicentennial celebration of Lincoln shortly and we are also finalizing designs for the sculptures in Cape Breton NS.

Last week my inbox was full asking what I thought …arguments before the state Supreme Court on the constitutionality of Proposition 8 are today march 5,2009 attorneys will be in San Francisco arguing for and against the validity of Proposition 8, the voter-approved measure that limits marriage in California to one man and one woman the Salvation army and Mormons spent millions of dollars donated to their churches and charities to stop gay rights, both churches had in the past taken my money and support , but now light should be shown on their beliefs. Other churches are against gay rights but seldom exclude gay men and women in need from help. The Salvation Army and Mormon Church will turn always all who are different unless we conform to their beliefs. This is not what Jesus taught. I am disappointed but it is a complicated issue. And today I hope reason wins. Either way many questions have been raised should we support those who turn against our rights, I believe it’s no different than a Jew supporting the third Reich. I know I’ll receive thousands of letters over that line but it’s the truth. Young gay men and women are routinely being killed in North America for being what God created after Matthew Sheppard the outcry was loud against hate crimes us as time passed many who were once minorities and persecuted joined in the persecution of gays and lesbians a very sad moment in our social history.

Many ask what I thought about artist Maureen Mullarkey of Chappaqua NY has made her reputation by painting gay pride parades and gay men, but the new Prop. 8 filings show that she donated to the campaign, which eventually outlawed gay marriage in California.

Here is where it gets difficult… should someone who profits and has built their entire career on the gay rights movement be a contributor to the exclusion of gay rights and expects us to accept it?

Had Maureen gone into a ballot box and voted against gay marriage or actively and honestly stated her beliefs from the beginning I would have no issues. but she chose to stand in silence among us and lead us to believe she views us as equals and then betray that trust is unforgivable. I respect other opinions and would even stand by Mike Huchabee because I know where his truth lies.

I know a fair number of people against gay marriage who I continue to patronize because they honestly speak of their belief and don’t force it on society or shroud it in lies and misleading statements…the ballot box is where this can be solved but with truth and not campaigns of fear and out right lies…

I have stood as government officials in Canada lied about me to my face in an effort to discredit the advancement of rights and when confronted with the video evidence that they were lying and I was in the right still tried to lie and distort the truth. To some the very existence of someone who is gay challenges their entire religious belief system. Prop 8 has only shone a bright light on the truth of religious intolerance; the fear of anything they deem different seems to weaken their faith.

I would still buy a painting by Maureen but never one of her iconic gay pieces, and I would make it clear that I don’t appreciate being miss lead that she supports my rights to exist equally in society.

When a clear choice between a supporter of prop 8 or a supporter of equal rights naturally I will patronize the equal rights camp. Too many in society forget the positive impact we have on their lives careers and families. Having already supported a Day with out gay last December I will encourage its growth until men and women are free to love whom ever they choose…

To all the young gay men and women who write thank you for the hope you give me , in a better world.

I’ll keep calling and answering as long as you keep writing and I’ll try to keep this updated….

200 years and 2 great minds…

Polls show that only 14 percent of Americans believe that humans developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life. Forty-four percent believe that God created human beings almost overnight within the past 10,000 years, and another 36 percent believe that God guided humans’ evolution from animals over a much longer period of time.

Many people think you can’t believe in evolution and still believe in God;  Faith does not mean that you have to give up common sense. Faith is deeper than that.

200 years ago today 2 men were born who changed the world and their inpact today is as vtial as when they were  alive.

Charles Darwin the father of evolution who freed our thoughts and Abraham Lincoln the great emancipatior who freed our souls.

Remember in these challanging times their contributions were not always easy and often came with great sacrafice yet as history holds their impact did nothing less than change mankind itself…

May their contibutions never go unnoticed and may we all be wise enough to take note of our contepararies who walk amoung them in greatness passing the tourch is their greatest legacy.

 

 

Check back, for  A  FIRST LOOK at our Lincoln bicenntenial sculptures and my tribute to Lincoln on CNN.

another monday,another month…

Once again thank you for all you cards, letters and support, of our careers…

I want to take a moment to congratulate all of our friends who have just won and are nominated for awards this season.

 

First; my dyslexia is acting up this week that I can barely spell my name so your warned before you read…you’re the ones who wanted me to write this raw and uncensored …

Today our family grew by 1 a beautiful Siamese cat named cuddles she is 10 years old and her human mom a friend of ours, past away and someone needed to step up and take care of cuddles so.our family is bigger… I know what your saying, I always write about hating cats and my horrible allergy’s … funny how a loving little creature can change all that… her sweet demeanor and affectionate behavior warmed me up and I guess I can live on anti-histamine… too late now she’s moved in and family is forever so guess I love cats!

 

We are heading to a Super bowl party at Jay and Tina’s and I’m leaving a sculpture till tomorrow in the studio…I can’t believe someone is getting me to leave work before I’m done! I must really like Jay and Tina. 

 

Many of you ask about our sculptures and where we get our inspiration to create; often you our friends and fans inspires us and drive us to create, over the last month Bradlee has entered our life and given us a new perspective and drive to create…often a muse is the most elusive of all the gods of the ancients …I guess we are blessed to have found such a muse… our best work will be inspired by Bradlee and his smile that lights up the darkest night and warms the coldest night.

 

Now all I need is someone who has Abraham Lincolns build to help with our posture issues to finish the bicentennial sculpture.

 

For us it’s been a hurry up and wait month, I have 4 scripts on their final days and between double and triple fact checking to revisions I am sick of each topic and can’t wait for a change of pace.

 

I have been working on a children’s book for Mount Vernon and I’ve just begun the final group of watercolors. The publishers expect galleys by the middle of the month and I’ll keep you informed on its release date. I’ll be autographing copies in Washington this summer and will create a special watercolor and autograph edition for those of you who make a donation to the White House Historical foundation or Mount Vernon Ladies Association. Many have written asking about advance copies and we will be in touch with you shortly.

 

As I write I am in pain many of you may remember my root canal from a couple of years ago and how Brian re built my filling after it came out at a gala in Washington using a tooth repair kit from wal-mart… well last week the filling once again came out and this morning I received the news that the tooth has to be extracted, a large piece was taken out this morning and a surgeon will remove the rest in a couple of weeks… as many of you know I hate the dentist and trust me this is not going to be easy I am a big baby when it comes to tooth pain…

 

Otis is working on an amazing novel it’s cutting edge and action packed I’m reading the proofs today… I know he has a hit on his hands… and the Washington Symphony is progressing   on schedule I’ll keep you update as to sneak peak concert dates…

 

Our gladiator is on its last stage of work before completion and Ryan will be our model again, for a study of the David beginning shortly.

 

Zack Robbins has a play opening tonight in Maine and we send our love; one think I know is Zack can turn lemons into lemon aid so with a great product the sky’s the limit, if your in Maine drop me a note and I’ll give you all the details to catch Zack live… you won’t regret it he is amazing…

 

John Mackenzie just called to tell me he has just secured the lead captain von trapp in the sound of music I’m very proud to know him and look forward to opening night; a star will be born and Allen town and riverside a memory.

 

Before I close today take a look at Ted Haggard and all he’s said this week… it makes me mad when someone hides behind religion or stays in the closet and ruins so many lives yet still says I’m straight and that makes me better in some way… as a gay man I’ve been involved with guys who tried to later claim they were straight and the only people they fool are themselves and their families who want to believe …

I have no problem with who I am and when I see people like haggard and his family preaching a horrible self hate in the name of what’s holy and good I realize how dangerous they are…parents listen and then believe they can change their children … because Ted Harrgard changed … if you have any belief in God understand one thing he created us all and therefore he created homosexuality, it exists in all of nature so it is indisputably natural and to force someone to change or conform is the real sin  against nature. Instead of giving a voice to men and women who use religion to make money and fear to push agendas we should give voice to reason.

I never intended to be an activist but someone has to speak up for those afraid to speak. It is time our media and our governments start representing all of the people and not those who push a profit based agenda.

United by our best attributes instead of our hatred, bound by our common dreams of a better world rather than a world we are all cookie cutter copies.

I guess I’ll get more hate mail and threats but I don’t want to see any more young men and women with ruined lives write me because they were scared to be themselves. Hate is a powerful thing but I still believe that truth and love are more powerful.

Take a good look at yourself and stand up for what’s right…

The world is changing and not always for the good of all I’m sad to say.

A large number of you have asked when I’d return to my show. I needed the break after my heart incident and then I just enjoyed being silent for a while… I’ll be back in syndication shortly and look forward to all of your ideas…

And to reverend Fred Phelps and his flock I decided to unblock your correspondence so write me with all the hate you have and I’ll respond with all the forgiveness I can muster

J.B.

May God Bless and Protect our President

12:05 pm EST The 44th President of the United Stated of America

“Each man a thread woven into the fabric of a nation, embodied in a flag, represented by a man; alive in a never ending dream called freedom”

J.B. Landry

The greatest achievement of American history the peaceful change of choice

 

Change is inevitable, of that we are certain. Destiny is not a given but a choice and our choices are greater now than ever before in recorded history…

Today represents the greatest achievement of American history the peaceful change of choice…

Responsibility, like change, is also inevitable; we are responsible for our actions and yes even our lack of actions. We are attached to the comforts of our life as much as the miseries… we are often attached because its familiar. We need to survive and to survive we need to master our world at least in our minds. Often, survival and mastering our destiny are self delusions based on our circumstance; every slave believes he can manipulate and control his master, every addict believes they are in control and not the substance…

Our spirituality rounds out the concept; we pray and we dream and we wait only to repeat endlessly this process

Hope…

That’s what a world waits for …

I prefer action, “facto non verb”, by deed not word

Today the world unleashes hope and today I pray we quickly take action I pray for world leaders who are decisive and men and women of action and moral responsibility.

Hope

The worst of all evils is today our mantra

Hesiod tells us of Pandora who opened her pithos and unleashed upon mankind the evils of ills, diseases, and burdensome labor; to slow to escape was the worst of all evils, later as mankind fell into despare she revisted her box and once again opened it unleasing the weak and tired hope… soon hope would become the most powerful of all the unleased evils. It would infect all of mankind…

It is said that the gods placed hope in the Jar because Zeus did not want man to cast off his life in dispare, no matter the torment and pain of the other evils, man would rather be tormented anew, to that end the greatest evil is hope, the most evil of all evils, as it prolongs man’s pain and torment.

 

Today we celebrate Hope …

Let’s refocus and celebrate action and choice for these are the virtues that will shape a world. Yes they come with the risk of mistakes but as history shows, nothing great can be created without mistakes for all mistakes can be corrected …while hope prolongs its self into a never ending torment..

 

May god bless our President and may he abandon hope for choice and words for action.. as he leads a troubled world to its chosen destiny

God Bless our land and help President Obama finally close Pandoras box and renew in man the freedom of choice…

working on Lincoln….

I am trying to answer all your mail… and will spend the next week catching up (I Hope)…

We have decided to work hard and finish our bi-centennial Lincoln sculpture for the next two weeks …

We will post pictures of the new Lincoln next weekend…if our vision and the actual piece work out it will be one of our proudest moments… if not you’ll have a good laugh…

 

Many of you are asking about our sculptures. Sadly for our collectors yet happily for us we are still booked solid with commissions and will not have pieces available for general sale for some time. We are currently booked for the next two years and not taking new commissions. 

 

We could use your help, we are in a search to find someone similar to Abraham Lincoln our sculpture is working except for his smile so we need a volunteer with similar features to help us capture the fine details of the movement of the piece, so if you are close in resemblance, we could Use your help…drop us a line we are looking for someone between Nova Scotia and Virginia, when we can’t get a subject to sit for us  it helps to have a life model or photographs and both are in short suppy for Lincoln … our dream is to finish  all three  designs sculptures before the end next month. ( we don’t need facial hair either,just the look and general features)

 

We will try to show our new pieces before they head to their new homes sometime in February or March.