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About
What you are about to read is from a journal that was started as a project in therapy in 1975. I was asked to write the more prominent events of my life starting with the present and work backwards to the earlier years of my life. I continued that journal for many years in many forms, those events that have played important parts in my life. They have not always been good fortune for me. They have mostly been traumatic and have influenced the makeup of my emotional well being and perceptions of people around me. Those events around my birth and shortly after having been recorded and remembered from the versions my mother and family have told me. Where allowed, I have embellished to some extend the entries to give credence to events that are lacking in factual memory or written history. The embellishment does not make then any less true. My mother has always been surprised at my ability to remember events that happened at such an early time in my life. She would claim it was impossible to have such memories at such a tender age. She failed to recognize the fact that the subconscious does register and hold in reserve such events that were traumatic and painful to be both physically and emotionally. Often these memories would surface and reveal some part of my childhood that were forgotten. Where other memories have always been present, and foremost as a part of life as far back as I can remember. I am a Award winning Poet, Writer, Artist, Sculptor, Pop Sociologist, an Inductee into the National Deans List, a member of the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society. I have been active in Community Service: Past Board Member of the Vine Neighborhood Association (3 terms), Membership Chair, Fund Raising Committee, Board secretary and interim Board Treasurer. Past member of the Recipient Rights Committee, County Mental Health Board. KVCC Public Museum Volunteer for 20 years. Involved in Community Theater for 50 years off and on most recent with the Kalamazoo Civic Theater since 1985. I have been apart of a Disaster Relief team for Hurricane Andrew in Florida helping feed 5000 people a day. I have be a home missionary worker with a local church administrating a shelter program for the homeless, Minister of the food Ministry, cook, and procurement of emergency food pantry items 1991-1992, I am a graduate of Kalamazoo Valley Community College 1998, Studies at Western Michigan University, Studies at Lansing Community College 1975, Graduate of Davenport College of Business 1974. Graduated Portland High School at age 21 in 1970. I was born in 1951 premature Twin with developmental issues, Learnings disabilities, and hearing impaired.