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12/28/2011

"That's the thing about magic; you've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you."
Charles de Lint

A clown is like aspirin. Only he works twice as fast"
Groucho Marx

"Let a clown but laugh and the whole house will giggle"
H.R Haweis (1872)

"I remain one thing and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me
on a far higher plane than any politician"
Charlie Chaplin

"If by chance some day when you're not feeling well and you should
remember something I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or
a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been
fulfilled"
Red Skelton

"By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and
realizing they have done this gives them some sort of a spiritual second wind
before going back into the battles of life."
Emmett Kelly

"Humor is reason gone mad"
Groucho Marx

"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs -
jolted by every pebble in the road."
Henry Ward Beecher

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two
people."
Victor Borge

A Clown's Advice For Dealing With Stress

12/28/2011

1. Accept the fact that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the
statue!

2. Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat
them.

3. If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.

4. If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably
worth it.

5. Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time, because then you won't
have a leg to stand on.

6. Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance!

7. Since it's the early worm that gets eaten by the bird, sleep late.

8. The second mouse gets the cheese.

9. When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

10. Birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live.

11. You may be only one person in the world, but you may also be the world to
one person.

12. Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once.

13. We could learn a lot from crayons. Some are sharp, some are pretty, and
some are dull. Some have weird names and all are different colors, but they all
have to live in the same box.

14. A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.

The Joy of Balloons

12/14/2011

Recently, I worked a party where I was making balloon animals for the children and after creating one of my special dragonfly balloons a father approached me. He asked if he could have a dragonfly. As I was making his dragonfly, he proceeded to tell me about how he grew up in Louisiana and that down there are thousands of dragonflies and that my dragonfly reminded him of the ones back home. Right about then his wife came up and asked what he was doing. He told her he was getting a dragonfly for himself. His wife looked at him and asked, "Aren't you a little old for a balloon animal? He said that he never really had a childhood and looking at the balloons made him feel like a kid again. He said, "I guess that makes me a 30 year-old kid."

Later that same day I was working another party and the professional photographer who the family hired approached me and asked for one of my explosion hats. Like the party before as I was making his hat, his girlfriend came up to him and said, "I can't believe you are actually wanting a balloon hat." He then replied by saying, "When I was a kid my parents refused to let me have a balloon sculpture and I have always wanted one. Now after all these years, I finally get to have one." After I presented his hat to him, he quickly put it on and to my surprise ran out to the middle of the yard and started dancing and shouting, "Look at me, I have a balloon hat!"

I have been a clown since 2003 and I am still amazed at how much joy a simple balloon creation can give a person regardless of thier age. The act of bringing some joy into someone's life or alllowing a person to grab a piece of a lost childhood is why I love being a clown. There is no greater calling than to serve my fellow man in this capacity.

My Favorite Quotes

A Clown's Advice For Dealing With Stress

The Joy of Balloons

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