After retiring in 2017 as a Methodist minister for a Deaf Church in Auckland, I started working as a counsellor for children going through tough times. Wanting to help them, I began creating books, but they needed illustrating which led to studying watercolour technique online for the past couple of years. Discovering these skills has been a real joy. So now, in my mid-seventies, I am submitting my first contribution to the Franklin Arts Competition, using my dyslexic understanding of life, enjoying jam-packed thoughts and the multi-faceted ideas that tumble over each other in their desire to explore life.