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I was also born relativly poor, but never knew it as a child. I've been a marksman archer since I was four years old. I'm an artist. I've watched deer walk by without shooting them. I once won a state commercial art competition with a plastic ruler and eight Mr. Sketch scented markers, then went on to place third in the nation. I've been held at gun point for twenty minutes by a mad man. I've talked a heroin addict into putting down his knife while he was attempting to kill his girlfriend. I've broken up at least three bar fights, and committed both a boss and an ex-father-in-law to alchoholic rehab in the same year. I've been born again several times. I worked in the carney circuit for a few years. I know what it's like for a little boy's life to fall apart when he's twelve years old. I also know what it's like at twenty five. I pulled a fourteen year old girl out of a swimming pool after she overdosed on six reds, two bottles of wine and a thai stick. I attended an outlaw biker's wedding. I have white water rafted and trekked through the Danali wilderness of Alaska. I have swum with the stingrays in Grand Cayman Bay. I've worked with film crews from Argentina to Australia. I've eaten in the finest restaurants from Beverly Hills to Manhattan, but I'd still prefer a corn dog over them all. I drank my way across Great Britian and Ireland. I once hiked into the base of the Grand Canyon alone. I smoked a peace pipe with a shaman in Sedona, Arizona. And yes, I inhaled. I have been recognized by the New York Art Director's Club. I supervised the design of Atlanta's "city" logo used during the 1996 Olympics. Unlike most American men, I love my father. I have a saint for a wife, and a genius for a son. I am not impressed with "cool" people. And although some of my best friends are conservative, They are quick to point out I am a "liberal." |