Released June 11, 2014 9:15PM 

Chez Panise, Berkeley  California

 

She and I were madly in love. We were really

young, and I was really dumb. I had no idea what I

wanted to be when I grew up. I was most assuredly

not grown up. We shared a little room together in

a big house in Berkeley. For some reason she saw

more in me than I saw in myself. One day she

came home with this little supply box and inside

of it was a beautiful set of Derwent pencils. She

told me simply that I should start drawing. She

thought that I was an artist. This was the box that

got me started. At one point it held all the tools

of my trade. But eventually, I out grew it. Now I’m

sending it back into the world. The box was

purchased at Inkstone, an art supply store at the

corner of Bowditch and Bancroft in Berkeley,

California.