William Baxter Clark

“We all tend to live our ‘status quo’ until life thrusts change upon us“.

Born in St. Louis Missouri in 1959 to a very modest, but loving upbringing, youngest of 3, resources were always limited to the mainstream. At the young age of 10 or 11, I adopted the philosophy, “Work with what you have”. This became apparent to my mother. She said, during one of our conversations, “At that point I knew you were different” because of some unbidden project I created within the entry of our home. My father was a commercial painter who surrounded us with color. I can’t remember a white wall. The wonderful encouragement of a teacher/friend allowed me the focus to self-teach. Four years in the military during peace time, moving from here to there showed me diversity.

The stresses of the “status quo” tell us to leave our passions and our adolescent wisdom behind and to leave no time or space for heart and thought. The cost to me added up to kidney disease and an open heart surgery. That was 2002, my spiritual year of change.

My release is quick. My emotions are unrelenting.

“These are my children”. Dolly Parton