A FAVORITE BOOK ON TAPE WHILE PAINTING

I remember exactly where I was when listening to my favorite book on tape, laughing and crying out loud.  Viktor Frankl'

s "Man's Search for Meaning" was listened to as I painted on a low water bridge off Highway 281 in South Texas.
  He lost every one in the four Nazi camps he was in:  his parents, siblings, and pregnant wife.  The inspiration for me was that while he had no choice over these happenings of life, he had the choice of his reaction to them.  He could not avoid the awful suffering, but he could choose how to deal with it.