Today, twenty-two years after those few seconds that changed his life, Robb is a successful artist, public speaker and facilitator of young people to face inevitable change and to reach toward achieving their dreams. Free of hospitals, he lives in an elevatored home in the country, is married to beautiful Sarah and they now have their very own twin girls. Not bad for a hopeless case. I, too, began my art as physical and mental therapy after an accident caused me some disability. My problems were nowhere near as severe as Robb's.
Art is very healing spiritually, mentally and physically.
I think there is something in humans that needs art just as we need food, though some may ignore their MDR of art. All disabled We are all disabled in some way. Some, of course, much more than others. Coming to terms with our disabilities and making them work for ourselves is the challenge. I don't even know another plein aire painter in my region.