Team Kellems Blogs

My Dad would tell me, “ Cary, in life, you gotta play the cards that are dealt ya.” Yet if you look up from the table of life and see that fickle Fate is your dealer, then you just gotta expect that the hand you’re dealt just might stink.   And this is the story of one of those hands.   One year before the bicentennial I found myself hitchhiking back to San Diego from Anchorage Alaska with just a backpack, a straw hat, a smile on my face and a degree in Early Childhood development in my

Play your Hand

Who here has ever owned a motorcycle? Motorcycles are a Darwinian device to purge the gene pool of fools. When Darwin was asked about motorcycles he said: “It’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt.... then it’s hilarious!”   At 17 I did not have enough common sense to purchase Darwin’s book "On the origin of Species" ,  but I did have enough cash to buy my 1st dirt bike.   Imagine my surprise when:   I was, soaring high into the azure blue desert sky sitting astride my roaring desert

Darwin's Pool

Who here has visited a museum lately?    Before this eternal masterpiece, I sat and let the visuals permeate my entire being.  Before long you see, then feel the master's work come into you.  A sensation that has persisted the relentless destruction of time. It is just you and the distillation of truth and beauty that hangs before you.     Absorbed in that moment, I remembered that through x-ray technology, modern curators have discovered that some of the masters re-used their canvas’s.  Does

Canvas