The family embroiled in scandal and drama the bastard child cries when she is pulled away from the foster family and reunited with her mother and the mother’s sister is sleeping with the whole town and they both share a sister buried years ago after giving birth to her first and last child and their grandmother has confided in her granddaughters that she let love enter her decades ago in the form of a man who didn’t have the name of their father’s father and these girls share a mother who was swept away almost completely by a man who came to dinner to talk about art and sat down between her and her husband before they sipped wine and exited into the night with reckless abandon and all this time the dog seemed to become smaller slower sicker and the tension in the house expanded like a rubber band about to snap and then one day the vet was called and there was an evaluation after which came a phone call and the word cancer choked the air in the room where they were all eating together and all of a sudden everything human fell away became trivial and hilarious and the only thing worthy of reverence and tears was the way the yellow lab looked into everyone’s eyes without judgment or fear.
I currently live in Greenwood, Indiana. I love to listen to music, books on CD, podcasts or NPR as I work in my studio. My favorite artists are Andrew Wyeth and Edward Hopper. I love poetry, but only the good stuff that isn’t so abstract I can’t understand it. Abstraction better lends itself to visual art, I think. Stephen Dunn is my favorite poet. He’s said just about anything that can be said about the inner workings of the heart and mind. My favorite novel is Atonement by Ian McEwan. My all time favorite band is The Cure. I love science, and anything that relates to how the mind works. I don’t believe in the supernatural. If I could meet anyone in the world, it would be Richard Dawkins or Steven Pinker. If you don’t buy my art or read my poetry, buy one of their books. It will enrich if not change your life. My favorite things to do are hiking, kayaking and camping. My favorite food is so common, I’ll keep you in suspense (It starts with a P). I prefer chocolate to vanilla. Green is my favorite color. I have an aversion to planning or scheduling of any kind, and I live for spontaneous adventures! Telephone conversations make me anxious, and I avoid them at almost all cost. I had a happy childhood. I’m having a pretty fantastic adulthood. I have every intention of seeing my 100th birthday, after which I will happily relinquish my guts to the future of medicine.
Cheers! ~DeMaris
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