You must continue to wake up make your bed coffee mow the lawn water the flowers exercise create sell eat thrive smile if you can even though your heart is heavy even though your heart is hamburger even though you are in a kind of limbo waiting for something to happen waiting for prophesies to be fulfilled— waiting is what you do best you’re a pro a champ a good sport in pursuit of the prize the trophy the golden thing that you worry will collect dust once it’s won once it’s in your possession once you have the impossible dream that you’ve been promised will be yours— it will be— it will be wonderful— an accomplishment of endurance perseverance patience hope but will it be love? Will it be love, after all? After all it put you through will it feel like love when you hold it finally in your bitter arms?
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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