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“On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.” - Dan Lipinski
Courtenay: When I find a piece of driftwood I imagine what it can become. A recent piece I found seemed to resemble waterfall, and the middle, with a little blue, white and green paint, and maybe some little rocks added it with glue...would become a waterfall. It is waiting on my easel to become the object of my imagination.
I have worked pieces of wood in the past, sanding them down to a fine satin finish, so soft that you couldn’t tell the difference between the surface of the wood and a babies cheek. I did just that with a nice hard piece of oak...upon which I mounted ‘art’ I created from naturally found nature objects. I worked for weeks on that piece of wood, until the surface was just right.
Once, when I interviewed for a position as Assistant Manager at a bicycle store, I was asked, “If I was a type of tool, what type of tool would I be?”. I thought about it...this was the first time I had ever been asked anything like this at a job interview. Then I answered...”a paint scrapper”. The guy interviewing me looked somewhat surprised by my answer, but I guess he liked it, since he offered me the job.
He did ask me why I answered the way I did, since apparently the usual answer was hammer. I told him why. My reasoning was that it was more important to be able to scrape away whatever was on the surface, to reveal the beauty, to reveal what was really there, underneath.
Isn’t that we are all trying to do with recovery from PTSD?
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