Education

• Hartselle High School

Favorite saying

• "“Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.” ― Ludwig van Beethoven “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” -James Arthur Baldwin "The soul is healed by being with children." -Fyodor Dostoevsky "Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less." -Rabbi Julius Gordon "I thought about how life was like a Littmus Lozenge... how the sweet and sad was all mixed up together... and how hard it is to separate them out." -Because of Winn-Dixie "Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away." -Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life, 1859 "I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are." -Frances Moore Lappe, O Magazine "Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two." -Captain Corelli's Mandolin "Layer by layer art strips life bare." -Robert Musil"