plans for new year
Well it's been since Dec since last post and thought I'd keep you ( who ever you are) updated with what's going on..Well I'm gonna run a Clown class for some of the kids interested from Kid's alley in Camden..We were only going to take 4 but 6 showed up and were interested in taking the 6 week course I wrote up.never did a class but been clowning so long and have a lot of good notes i thought we could do something special @ Kid's alley..We took all 6 so keep me in prayer as we start this new adventure My Schedule is starting to get real busy with Kristen Wedding coming up in April and Nina and Adam's Baby due in May...
OH year Buster and I got to clown around for Ronald McDonald House At Front and Erie..It was their 5th year "birthday'" party
Also My article for the Big Top MACA news Letter came out in Jan also..thought maybe you would like to see it sooo:
OH year Buster and I got to clown around for Ronald McDonald House At Front and Erie..It was their 5th year "birthday'" party
Also My article for the Big Top MACA news Letter came out in Jan also..thought maybe you would like to see it sooo:
Why I Clown…
I was all prepared to write an article
about my summer camp trip entitled “What I did During Summer Camp”. Thirty of us attended the first ever American
Clown Academy in Newark Ohio over the summer months. We had 6 different instructors for 5 FULL
days of information. I learned more in 5
days than 25 years of clowning. It was a
great experience of learning the art of clowning. I’d like to tell you more about it in future
articles or during a conversation we might have. But, what I really learned is having a heart
for clowning and developing a good “character”.
I really enjoy clowning around for a group
called “Kid’s Alley” based out of Camden
NJ. It’s any organization that centers on the
kids of Camden,
and to try to give them a safe place to be kids, while learning different
skills to better themselves. Every time
I go, I am greeted with BIG smiles and hugs from the kids there. One particular little one stayed around me a
lot and was almost to a point of being around me TOO MUCH. His feistiness was
evident but his little eyes of amazement would stay with me forever.
Recently, in the news, there was a story
of a little child who was killed while trying to save his older sister from
being attacked by an intruder at 2 AM. Apparently the attacker was on what is called
WET, which is Marijuana with PCB. Like
most stories, you feel bad but chalk it off as what happens in one of the worst
crime cites in the US. But this story was different because it
involved a little one. Pastor Viv, who
runs Kid’s Alley, was over my house and showed me the picture of the little guy
and said it was one of “her kids”.
Looking at the photo brought chills up my back as I remembered those
same eyes, and his feisty nature. His “spunk” saved his 12 year old sister’s
life. I remember Dominick very well and
my wife and I went to his very sad viewing.
I remember Dominick because of the energy
he had even in such a dark place of Camden. I was privileged enough to be able to bring
some joy into his life even in a crime infested community.
Why I clown? Well, it’s for kids like
Dominick. You have no idea what each kid
is going though at home, at school or in their community, when you meet them. As a clown, it’s your unique duty and privilege
to bring some joy and happiness in their lives, even for a brief moment in
time…
Clowning is an art to learn and cherished,
so that someday you can bring “life” into someone’s world. It’s not only a privilege, but a
responsibility to clown and do it right.
What an honor it is to see those “eyes of wonder’ come into your life,
and to be able to share a moment of laughter.