The Duchy of Jerald

6.I am an INFJ
http://www.personalitypage.com/INFJ.html
in the Myers Briggs personality type system. Rarest of all types I relate to 1 person in 200. So
I’m on the outside observing. Same type as Ghandi, Mother Teresa and Martin Luther King. Oh
yes and God help me Shirley Mclean as well. I hope I’m not channelling an ancient Egyptian
cause that would be like weird. Find out your type here:
http://www.personalitytype.com/quiz.asp
7. My Dad died when I was 2 from lung cancer, he was a coal miner. I grew up in a state of
anxiety in poverty and abuse. I medicated the effects of that with sugar, then nicotine, and then
pot and dropped all that for yoga/religion. Finally I found Albert Ellis, the foremost
psychotherapist of the last century, read a couple of his books and dropped all that other stuff
entirely.
8. When I was 40, after a few years as an addictions counselor, and a longer career in
transportation logistics, I went to art school. For 6 years. A process where every 3 months your
work is put before the foremost artists in the land, and they decide if you get another 3 months of
school. This critical jury process I engaged in and did well at, 3 times on the President’s honour
role, earned 2 degrees, while watching it tire and burn out 18 year olds. Only 100 of us graduated
of the 800 entry submissions.
9. During Art School I was married to a woman who developed a terminal degenerative brain
disease (Huntingtons) that affected her personality and emotions negatively and was very
difficult on relationship, to put it mildly. We finished up at the same time as I lost my brother as
well as my best oldest friend, both to cancer. I lost primary relationships, my house, studio and
my business and family proceeded to dump me as well. I was 50 and I started over. What choice
do you have? A social worker recently said to me, Jerald you must have been devastated. Is that
what you call that? Oh. Now I know.