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"Yellowstone Falls" tells us a tale of a boy who went fishing in Yellowstone Canyon above the Yellowstone Falls. That boy was myself, who failed to listen to my father to follow his steps closely went we got off of Uncle Tom's trail to descend the canyon to the river. Deciding my decision was the best way to beat my father to the water's edge and catch a fish before anyone else, taking charge, and proceeded to slide down a path made of rock shard. Suddenly the whole hill went out from under my feet, and down I went, mountain and all. My father who was raised in the Bitterroot mountains of Idaho, knew that this slide of mine would not gently stop at the water's edge but would roll over a cliff right into the water above the falls, to my death. He watched in terror as I headed to my doom toward the cliff's edge, straight into Yellowstone River and over the falls. My mother and younger sister who wisely stood at the observation deck, screamed, and my father watched helplessly at my demis...

"By their works you will know them." Does life always have to be full of multitude of credentials? Credentials not worth the paper written on if it is not fulfilled. Do credential revel the heart and soul(life of one) of the person? When an artistic creation is purchased, the purchaser is buying more than what is seen. The creator of artistic expression has perhaps spent hundreds of hours by thought and work, errors made and corrected, experimentation, years of frustration and moments of pure joy went in the piece comes together. This work is not one piece of artistic creation. Heart and soul has been put into the creation of the art, as well as in the artists inner person. So you are purchasing a small moment of the artistic creators...