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The Penny Fair Home Tent  The Penny Fair is my personal website. It doesn't get the time it should, but there always seems to be something else that needs to be done first. Eventually there will probably be on it art of various kinds; paintings, photography, stories, possibly stuff to buy ... but primarily art forms. Chickens, for instance. If you don't think chickens are art, you have never been to an old fashioned county fair. And Lynne, my wife, collects recipes. She's a gourmet cook although she denies she ever said so. She could turn those chickens into edible art. For now, there are some pictures and biographies of:      I am an artist. That covers a lot of ground, and overlaps into a number of other areas. I used to think I could not be an artist. It was kind of funny, in a way, looking back on it from this distance, but I became a photographer because I wanted to be an artist, but didin't think I could draw. So I used a camera instead. Then, one day some twenty-five years later, after a particularly interesting Scientology Auditing session, in which I got rid of some of those considerations about how I could never do this or that, or wasn't good enough, I went down to the local art supply store, bought some paints, brushes and stuff, and painted a picture. I was surprised ... it was pretty good, if I do say so myself. Somebody else thought so, too, and bought it from the wall of my office where I had hung it. That was encouraging enough, that it got me started on a new and very satisfying and enjoyable career ... but that's another story. Sometimes I notice other people my age (I'm in my 70's now) who are retired, and wonder if I would ever want to do that. There are so many things to do, so many I am interested in. I don't want to go fishing. I've done that in ways I'm not likely to match again this lifetime, such as the big catfish at the bottom of the Brazos. As I find the time, I'll add some of those stories to this site. They'll probably all be true, because there is so much amazing material in real life that it's hard to run out of it. I read that O. Henry was asked once in a restaurant, how he came up with all his stories and he replied there were stories in everything. To prove it, he wrote one about the menu. It seems like that to me. I have lived them or met others who did. I once had an 800 number for taking orders for my fine art prints, that a big HMO had gotten mixed up with their psychiatric clinic number. It was that way for more than a decade. I tried many times to get them to correct the error but they were never able to pull it off, so people called several times a week looking for psychiatric therapy. They had this health plan or that, and it had psychiatric treatment on it, so they figured, I suppose, that since they were unhappy about something, or one of their kids was in trouble, or their spouse or another family member, that it was the thing to do to handle the problems, because it wasn't going to cost anything. That's like taking rat poison because they are giving it away free. If they really knew what they had coming from psychiatry, they would run away screaming. Unfortunately, after it has been done, they too often can't remember. For example, I remember a girl my wife and I once met. She was a mess, trembling when she spoke, and needed some friends. It turned out she had recently been released from a psychiatric institution where her mother had put her for having an affair with someone her mother disapproved of. She had received an unknown number of ECT (Electro-Convulsive Therapy) treatments, where they sent large jolts of electricity through her brain. She didn't remember the affair anymore. She didn't remember anything. She didn't even remember that she had a bachelor's degree from the University of Texas. She found that out by accident when she went there to enroll in a course she was interested in taking. Talk about tragic. Well, that's a whole long story, so I'll get back to the point. When these people call what they think is the psych department, I often tell them that they would be better off getting a friend to bash them over the head with a fence post because it will be cheaper, it will produce the same effect, and they will be more likely to recover from it. They sometimes laugh, thinking I'm joking, but I'm not. Now and then, they talk to me and I advise them to go see their clergyman or look into Dianetics, or get some Scientology Marriage Counselling, depending on what the problem is they are troubled with. I think some of them have done it, too. I hope so. Heavy duty psych drugs and electric shock to the brain don't improve any condition. It doesn't make people more capable and able to handle life, to fry their brains with electricity. That kind of "treatment" just stuns them so they don't give a damn anymore. Like a lobotymy, where they destroy part of your brain in the name of therapy. You are aware, I suppose, that they used to promote Prozac as a "chemical lobotomy". I guess it sometimes seems like an improvement to family members who were upset by the poor sufferer's behavior, when they are stunned into submission so that they shut up and quit bothering other people, but it is horrible. It is a tragedy too, not merely because of the often irreversable damage it does to the brain, and the lives it ruins beyond redemption, but also because it isn't even necessary. I believe in real help, not sadistic pretenses of it. I am a Scientology and Dianetics Auditor and Case Supervisor. I've been a Scientologist for over thirty years now. I've improved my own life with it beyond description, and far beyond my original concept of what was possible. I have helped hundreds of other people improve their lives with it. I've gotten people off drugs with it. With it, I've helped people learn to read, who came to us unable to read a newspaper, and have watched them become literate in the span of a few months. I have seen it enable ordinary students to study like geniuses. The reason it works like that is that Scientology increases your ability to handle and live life and your capacity to get the most out of it. It is the ultimate manual and complete toolkit for living. It addresses the basics. Those things you have got to have before you can be, do or have anything higher up on the scale. Like learning, and ability to do things or to overcome obstacles, for example. Changing conditions. It is a toolkit to change conditions with ... to improve the condition you are in. And to help others do the same. I was a photographer for years, and got pretty good at it, but I had always wanted to be an artist. A painter kind of artist. Twenty-five years as a professional photographer, when what I really wished I could do was draw and paint realistically. And I was stuck. I mean really stuck in photography, and I wanted to do something else after all that time. Along the way, I finally stumbled into Scientology. I wasn't thinking about learning to paint, by then, because I knew I couldn't. It was a gift given others, but not to me. Still, I had run into Scientology, almost by accident, and it interested me because I was at that time in my life, trying to figure out why my life had gone so wrong. So I started reading books and took an introductory course and began to understand things for myself. One day, I came across the reasons I had thought I couldn't paint ... a mental barrier of my own of which I had been completely unaware up until then. So I went to an artist's supply store, bought a bunch of paints and watercolor paper and proceeded to paint a picture of an ostrich. Just his neck and head. Rather fanciful, but also rather realistic. I was sort of surprised that I had managed to transfer paints out of those tubes and arrange them on that paper in such a way, that this big bird actually appeared, complete with an African background. I was even more surprised when somebody bought it. I was busy at the time with other things, but later, my wife told me she was tired of hearing me talking about wanting to paint, and said I should just do it. So I painted a portrait of her. It was pretty good. Then I painted another dozen or so pictures and entered them in a local artist's club exhibit. They all hung in the show, I won half a dozen ribbons, including Best of Show, the portrait of my wife even got a ribbon, I sold one painting at the show, a local gallery owner asked me to exhibit my work at his gallery, and he soon sold the best of show one to the Sacramento newspaper for it's board room, for nearly $3000.00, and I was off to the races. Over the next year, he sold all of my original paintings, and I was having trouble painting fast enough to keep half a dozen paintings hanging in his gallery. Then I put some of my work on a local art website. That got me interested in computers, so the owner of the gallery gave me his old one and I got internet access from the guy who had the art website and by applying Scientology Study Technology, started learning. The first week, I called the support fellow with so many ignorant questions that he actually laughed at me. Now, his boss and I are in partnership with the shopping cart technology we developed together to sell art with. And I am a professional website designer, and a beta tester of Adobe's GoLive web design software. My name is even on the spash screen of that program, as one of the GoLive Advisory Council. All the other members are young people with formal software training. Some of them have college degrees in it. This old duffer learned it by using Scientology Study Technology. Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks? Woof! L. Ron Hubbard's Study Technology made it possible. That is what I used to learn. And there is something everybody should know about. You notice the mess our schools are in? If our troubled educational system did nothing more than install L. Ron Hubbard's Study Technology into the curriculum, and see that it was exactly applied, many, maybe most, of the most intractable problems of our school system would quickly dissolve. I've saved marriages with the technology of Scientology, and I've saved lives with it more than once. There is at least one girl, now around twenty five years old, who probably doesn't know it, but who would never have been born had it not been for the help I once gave her mother and father using the technology of Scientology. Every now and then someone I helped long ago pops up and thanks me. One of them said I had saved her life. I understand. I'd probably be dead by now, myself, if it were not for L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology. Here is some more on it, you might find useful if you want to see what it might offer for you. Thanks, Ron ....  |
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