The creator gave each one of us a place on the great Wheel of Life, each with our own gifts, traditions and responsibilities. Mine is working with high risk youth. I am ferociously proud and somewhat vain of my ‘hansome homies’ and ‘chickie poos’ and the ‘Visual Voices’ page is a dedication to them of artwork made available by them. These young artists have over come struggles and found their inner strength and expressed them in a unique, dramatic, individual way. I am very fortunate to see their kindness, their innocence and their talent that lies within them. Their energy, spirit, and great BIG smiles make each day even more special. Go forward and walk through the doorways that life is opening for you.  

                             There is no progress without struggle and we smile… because we made it through.

                                                                                                                                                                 DkL

  "My people will sleep for one hundred years.  When they awake, it will be the
                           artists who give them back their spirit.”                       
                                                                                Louis Riel