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The artworks in this book begin with a traditional portrait drawing or painting. Often, years pass before the initial piece is altered. At times, I irrevocably erase or paint out areas. In other instances, I resort to cutting up paintings or drawings in order to collage or create a new stand-alone piece. All this risk-taking is done in the hopes of creating something stronger and more authentic.This type of destruction of my original work feels not only perilous, but also limiting. Thus, I gratefully welcome using New Media prints, as prox-ies. At times, I feel it necessary to permanently alter the original piece, but for the most part I use New Media prints on paper or canvas. This allows me the freedom to experiment, fail, and push the boundaries of traditional portraiture. One approach is to utilize these printed portraits in conjunction with maps, diagrams, collage, and even dirt... This experimental modality might also transition into using high flow paint in partnership with the portrait. The high flow surfaces serve as a background or a direct pour across the por-trait itself. I also employ ready-made papers, which bring a new aesthetic to my work. I use these extraordinary papers as dynamic portrait backgrounds. Overall, in creating these new works, I fortunately am able to incorpo-rate the best of both worlds. I combine my "Old Master" egg tempera and oil painting technique with digital printing, collage, and high flow paint. I also merge my proclivity for realism and control with my pension for multiple in-terpretations and chance. My intention is for a synergy to occur between tradi-tion and experimentation, perhaps resulting in a fresh and unique perspective. In creating portraits, I am acutely aware of the many aspects of individ-uals-both overt and mysterious. Moods are in constant flux, and each of us is challenged by circumstance. My hope is that these portraits honor these many complexities, as they honor those I have been able to portray.My creative exploration and sensibility is the binding that holds these pages together-a story that has no plot, no conclusion, and is not linear.

Winners are not born. They learned how. You can learn how, too.Winners don't have more stamina. They just have better ideas. They don't have higher IQs. They just have great strategy.People think that winning is meant to be hard. And, if they can't hack it, then they believe the good life is not meant for them.Rabbi Baars explains that the reality is quite the opposite: The really good life is easy. And when life is easy, life is good. Sports, business, food, friendships and family, are only truly enjoyed by those who have figured out how to make them easy. These are the winners.Most of us believe that motivation creates success, but in this book you'll learn that it's the other way around: It's knowing that you are going to succeed that creates motivation. Winners have learned how to make challenging goals easy, but easy doesn't mean lower. The trick is to take the goals you really want, and make THEM easy.Change your thinking, change your life. Change your destiny. It's that easy.And for it to work it has to be easy. Because, if it isn't easy, it won't work.This book will change your life, just by reading it.

The following excerpt from a prose poem in the collection best describe Jonah Bornstein's poems. "Describe the frantic air thrashing and flicking . . . the whistles and clicks of birds and insects, the agaves and cacti . . . the granite, aggregates, shale, slate-hold them in your palm close to your face, so close that when a breeze brushes the pollens and dust from your hand into the air, they enter you through your mouth, gritty and chalky . . . the smell of sweat mixing with it all; then you will understand you are a filter. What enters is the finest stuff and it will mix with you until histories and memories form an intricate web from which nothing is lost." - from "Prelude""Jonah Bornstein stands half in, half out of the world, his poems crackling with a physical tension, the way of things; his poems calling from some place so deep you reach for him, or he for you, and your clasp is hot with sorrow, joy, passion, and gratitude, that words save us again and again." -Sandra Scofield, National Book Award finalist; author of seven novels, including Beyond Deserving, Plain Seeing, and two memoirs"What better to fill a page's primordial emptiness than the impulse of the poet to somehow both speak of the world and be of the world? What better than being able '. . . to hold the world up and to lie down / in it'? Accomplishing such a duality is Jonah Bornstein's work in these lyric poems. His voice conveys the longing and sadness inherent in such a two-fold being, one intent on becoming '. . . the twilled heart of man / and sycamore / white / as bone.'" -Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poet Laureate