Card from Superhero

[Alicia Starr]

thank you superhero.  may the great spirits shine on you.

[Alicia Starr]

thank you Charlotte. Going forward - Gabriel will be in my thoughts as your little Buddha.

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the comment box ate the trail of my post -

sorry about that but i don't remember what i wrote. :-(

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back a few months ago i sent out a mass mailing of "found object: funeral programs" with the remainder of our funeral programs from gay & chia (alicia you probably know that name!) inside the pamphlets, i put a photo of gabriel inside. well there's a lot of you that never received one of those, so i'm going to post a picture i dug up here, so you can get a view of him being zen:

gabriel was born severely disabled, and was never able to speak, walk, or even roll over. the most he could manage was to open his eyes and look at his surroundings, but even then - the doctors said his vision was severely impaired so that he could not really see anything much besides very strong contrasts. he was my child, for the most part. we hung out together at home most days, while the girls did their thing - back then i worked on computers a lot, programming and whatnot - not for a job but just as a hobby; but we would also go riding about town on the bicycle an awful lot, across town to the big mall in coralville through the beautiful bike path that cuts just south of 2nd, through a wooded area with plenty of mild hills. i don't know whether or not he liked it for the most part, but this was probably the biggest experience of his life as far as sensory stimulation goes. so if he were to remember things in his life, if he were here; i think he would mostly remember these rides.

 

i'm not an artist, people ask me a lot if i'm an art student -

the fact is i went back to school in the spring, after he passed away just last november;

but i went for writing. i used to write poetry at the park just north of the mall in coralville,

while we were there on the bike. i would stop there, and there was a lake.

i would bring my cell phone and type out poems while i rested and got the energy to drag our asses back home again! ;-D

 

aside from writing, i also took a drawing class.

we were allowed to experiment with mixed media for one of our assignments,

and this is what i came up with, using the above trailer:

the piece is titled "epineph-" which as neil gordon so kindly reminded me is short for epinephrin,

the drug they pumped his limp body full of after i had been trying for som