Due to a medical emergency involving my wife, updates to this site are on hold…

Cards and flowers can be sent to:

Gwendolyn Eaton

Cleveland Clinic Hospital
MICU
3100 Weston Road
Weston, FL 33331

Thank you,
Terry Eaton

Art is the only thing that separates humans from the rest of the animal kingdom. The ability to produce, interpret and understand compostion is the one and only thing that truly differentiates us from the four foot-long iguana in the tree outside my window.

“But what about cars? What about our ability to build things? What about tools?”

A monkey can fish ants and termites out of a tree with a stick when it’s hungry. A man can make a saw and cut down the tree. Which is really better?

Animals, left to their own devices, could never endanger an entire planet. Animals, by themselves, would probably never hunt each other to extinction. Animals almost never kill for sport. Animals do not poison their food before they eat it. Animals are not pretentious. Animals do not hate.

Yep, just art.

Do civilized people rub animal excrement on themselves in an ancient face painting ritual every day? Yep. Many cosmetics and personal hygiene products contain—of all things—bat shit. Bat shit! BAT SHIT!

Say that with me one time…

“Hold on, honey, I am rubbing bat shit on my face.”

“What?”

“I am rubbing bat shit on my face.”

“What?”

“Bat shit makes me beautiful.”

Civilized indeed.