Jake's Impression of Quarzite Arizona

My Stepson's (Jake's) Impression of

Quartzite, Arizona U.S.A.
Now there is a real story behind this particular drawing

and I'm not quite sure where to start.

His mom and I met late in life,

but it was also about the time that Jake took stock in his life

and started into the process of becoming a self reliant

& self defined man of his own. I am gifted by God

because both of my stepsons are

intelligent, artistic, and wonderful young men

Jake knows I am into art

and he is a naturally gifted sketch artist

and like his brother and I,

he has never taken an art class

beyond what is offered in a public high school education

This is Father's Day, June 15th, 2008

today the only one of my children who contacted me and

wished me a happy Father's Day was Jake

Now there are reason's why the others haven't contacted me.

My two stepdaughters are being held captive

in Louisiana by a demon possessed father

and I have only have a natural born son

who was given up for adoption

and we just met each other this last November

Because he had sought me out

He is a wonderful handsome young man

with whom I am looking forward to sharing

a wonderful longterm relationship,

providing Our God is merciful

and will forgive an ignorant childish sinner such as me.

But right now it is complicated for him

and I understand that he must feel conflicted.

Back to Jake: one day when he visited he brought

this wonderful little sketch of this place Quartzite

He is a trucker, and he had a layover in this small town

He said he knew I liked art on the walls,

(especially origenal art) so he drew this little scene

and gave it to us his next visit,

My wife, Jake's mom is delighted that we get on so well

And I feel absolutely privileged to have

these young men in my life

because God gave me the good sense to marry thier mom

One of my spiritual mentors

thought that it was a very unwise move at the time

Well the story doesn't stop here.

We live in Baltimore,

and all my wife and watch is PBS

Now I know all the fashionable rich little

yuppies say that all the time

as they got thier cable tuned to MTV or ....

In the case of my wife I, it is the God sworn truth

We don't have cable at least not yet

we still have an antenna TV

Just got color a year ago or so

Anyway when Maryland Public Televuision

is showing thier regular schedule we pretty much have it on

Instead of running infomercials and begging for money

and showing "once in a life time programming"

for the 100th time

When (in my opinion) they would probably do better

showing their good and sound programs

like Nova, MasterPiece Theater, Bill Moyers, Frontline and Brit Coms

No they run Roy Orbison's once in a lifetime b&w concert

so many damned times I could play the guitar riffs myself

and I haven't picked up aguitar in 20 years or better

I don't want to pick on R.Orbison,

Maryland Public TV runs a whole group

of infomercials and other

once in a lifetime specials in the ground

At times like this my wife and I just tune out of PBS

and listen to books on tape or CD

or even get some real work done sometimes

PBS's regular schedule

features a show called "The Desert Speaks"

A very good and informative show

I would recommend to any viewer

interested in exploring mysteries

the deserts of our planet have to offer.

Once we were watching "The Desert Speaks"

and they were in Quartzite, Arizona

And my stepson did a fine job of representing

the exact scene hat this episode started with.

Including the truck and trailor appearing

right where they are in Jake's drawing

I don't know if he was there

at the time they filmed the show or what but

Thanks for the Father's Day wish Jake,

You made my day