A year ago, I wrote about the resilience of the people of Galveston just a few months after Hurricane Ike. When a place in a natural disaster area has one of those natural disasters, there is always a lot of speculation about whether it should be rebuilt. I've noticed that people make choices for reasons and, if something changes the situation people will try to make to original choice work. That is true in Galveston. The city is not only being rebuilt but is getting better and better. The old Victorian houses are being updated and refurbished by the dozens, dead trees stumps are being transormed into works of art, beaches are clean and new parks are springing up.

Today is the 20th anniversary of my 29th birthday. I pray I'll be like Galveston, New Orleans, San Francisco and so many other places and be better than ever the older I get, no matter what disasters come.

A Long Strange Road

Welcome! If you've come back or are checking in for the first time. I've been away for a bit. This year has been eventful - 'A Long Strange Road'. I saw that phrase for the first time on the bumper sticker on the back of a black SUV in traffic in Sacramento, California in 2001. When I used it as the title of my dating profile, I got some very strange responses from boys who had some very unexpected ideas of what 'strange road' might be.

Thankfully, I am moving from my corporate, engineering, communication focus to a living fueled by creativity and spirituality. My art is showing at Christ the Redeemer Catholic Chuch in the Spring Festival Auction and Emerson Universalist Unitarian Church. Please stay tuned for mosre posts and many more images of my windows.