This is my story …

From age 9, I wanted to be an artist..

But I didn’t draw well.

I practiced. I took countless lessons with many different teachers.

I didn’t really improve.

My art teachers threatened to hurt me if I didn’t stop.

So I became an accountant because

I could…

Subtract

Add

I wasn’t happy

I tried not to think about it.

Then at the age of 33 …

while taking shelter in the top of the 5th inning of my daughter’s rain-delayed softball game…

I was struck by lightning.

Several days, a few burns, and one doctor visit later…

I noticed during a death-by-ppt meeting that my doodling was quite good!

I became obsessed -- drawing, painting, sculpting, creating during every free moment.

Friends and strangers said that I was talented. I went back to my former art teachers…

...they cried.

They wanted to shoot themselves.

I quit my job and began selling my work.

I made a fortune!

Unfortunately, my

spouse left me.

Get over it!

Today my daughter and I live in a Manhattan penthouse with a maid, driver, and a Mercedes.

We spend summers in our Tuscany villa.

See. Dreams do come true!

But then …

…sometimes they’re just dreams.

Bob, go back to bed.

The End

Sources for pics and music• Thanks http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/browse-author.php?a=1 Peter Kratochvil for his

pic.

• Thanks http://media.photobucket.com/image/nuns/shevegas920/flower.jpg?o=23

• Thanks to Anheuser Busch for this pic: anheuser busch beer.jpg

• Thanks to http://i475.photobucket.com/albums/rr119/jasonwade91/lightening3.png

• Thanks to http://s599.photobucket.com/albums/tt76/jessijbresnan/

• Thanks to http://www.clubipini.com/villa-toscana-tuscany-imagine-picture-swimmingpool.jpg

• Bob Newhart photo from YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McVWkGWMHKI

• "Music by www.pacdv.com/sounds/"