Shows drawings and paintings by the contemporary American artist, and discusses his unique approach to color, composition, and light.

Perhaps because of being a math teacher with an avid interest in cosmology, the author has acquired an expectancy of alternatives such as "if not real, then imaginary" all the way to "if not matter, then antimatter." This has led to the "what if factor" demonstrated in his novel. "What if" (to the first power) a man can hear sounds emanating from paintings in a museum? To what end, you might ask: perhaps a hobby of cataloging masterpieces based on tones from one to four? But "what if" (squared), in the presence of a foreign object the original painting becomes silent, as silent as a movie poster or even a reproduction. What did the painting have that the poster didn't have? What, then, did it lose? Is this cause for alarm? In Shell Tones, it is!

This memoir in poetry, song and prose is about a man who was born in Charlotte, NC. Abandoned by his father at age 6, he and his siblings became part of the black diaspora north to Buffalo, NY. At age 17 he became a dropout who found himself a leader and trainer of men for the U.S. Air Force. Married before his 19th birthday, he wrote poems, songs and taught himself to paint and sketch while serving an overseas tour in France. Returning home he worked his way through college and became an early, black pioneer in the powerful banking industry. It is a personal story of love, struggle and triumph that mirrored and chronicled the historic civil rights era in America.

Salvation is the ultimate ambition of the vast majority of the world's most dominant religions. I have researched thirty-one religions that represent the vast majority of the religions of the world. From Christianity that represents one-third of the global religious community, to Judaism that represents a mere minute fraction of a percent. Rituals and beliefs change, but the ultimate spiritual goal remains the same, appeasing their Supreme Being and finding eternal piece. I found that all the various different beliefs, rituals, and traditions end up being different roads that lead to the same location, salvation. The details of the thirty-one most popular and main religions of the world are disused and analyzed. The religions are among the world's main religious denominations, thereby covering the vast majority of the planet's religious beliefs.