Vitality Stories
Author Carlen Maddux
An Influential Journey
A Path Revealed
During my drive across the country, I read an advance reader’s copy of Carlen Maddux’s A Path Revealed: How Hope, Love and Joy Found Us Deep in a Maze Called Alzheimer’s.
Carlen’s wife, Martha, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease when she was only fifty years old. Fifty years old! I’m 45, almost 46, and I always thought Alzheimer’s was for the elderly, not someone turning fifty. Continue reading
Vitality Stories
From Brain Trauma to Art
Brain Freeze
Over the summer I found myself in Port Angeles, Washington, killing five hours until the next ferry to Victoria, Vancouver Island. We wandered next door to the Heatherton Gallery which hosts artwork for more than forty local artists. Ted noticed a black and white piece with three hummingbirds. The ink seemed to rise off the paper and the flowers and birds seemed multi-dimensional. Ted walked over to the register to buy it.
The cashier was explaining how the gallery worked like an art co-op and he asked Ted, “Did you read the artist’s story? It’s on the wall.”
I was still looking at Erica McClain’s pieces. There was an asian influence to her work and I had future plans to visit Japan. I found her bio: Continue reading