Went to UMO in 1980 it was the best experience of ...

Went to UMO in 1980 it was the best experience of my life. I was enroled at BCC and took enviornmental psycology social courses I barely passed algerbra courses. Because of past trauma abuse living in an eviornment that included poverty alcholism drugs and violence I lacked skills to function what one would consider normal. I never could hold onto a job. I eventally was declaired disabled by a Federal Judge. It was devistating to be labled as mentally ill. The University of Maine at Orono open a new door for me art. It was there that I learned the value of education. 20 years later I still am disabled under Federal law have non Hodgekins Lymphoma and lost my health insurance. But the only love and expression of communication I found was through art. Art speaks to the individual it enables free interpetation of abstract visual concepts and ideas.I will always fail. But I will never take any side wether poliitical or war. Because I believe that art is the one form of communication that is understandable. We may not understand the world but we still can relate through any form of art.