My Timberframe

My Timberframe

So it was a quiet summer and Tyler and the rest of the neighbourhood kids were bored. I had a pile of old timbers in my way and using the above sketch, we framed us a timberframe...

Unfortunately, I sold that house and had to dismantle it and those timbers were used once again on this project:

My Boat Cradle

But thats a different story!

Rocky (2006)

"I'd hold you up to say to your mother, "This kid's gonna be the best kid in the world. This kid's gonna be somebody better than anybody I ever knew." and you grew up good & wonderful. It was great just watching you, every day was like a privilege. Then the time came for you to be your own man and take on the world, and you did. But somewhere along the line, you changed. You stopped being you. You let people stick a finger in your face & tell you you're no good. And when things got hard, you started looking for something to blame, like a big shadow. Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees & keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done! Now if you know what you're worth, then go out & get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits, and no pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him or her or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain't you. You're better than that. I'm always gonna love you, no matter what. No matter what happens. You're my son and you're my blood. You're the best thing in my life. But until you start believing in yourself, you ain't gonna have a life."

Welcome to My Quest!

A few years ago, I woke up in a horrible moment of clarity and realized that my life was only a series of mirages… realities that did not exist except in my own mind.  And in that horrible moment that changed so many lives, I realized that it wasn’t too late to change the course of my own life.  I didn’t know how to do it but I knew I had to.  And I have tried… Oh I have stumbled and probably taken the long way to get to wherever it is that I am but I know no other way… How could I ever return to the lies I used to tell myself? Failure is such a tough medicine to swallow… especially when it is self-inflicted.  And still I’d rather stumble on than curl up in a corner and whimper for the rest of my miserable life. And so I choose to stumble on… up a lonely road on a quest for whatever it is that I seek.

My Quest