Craig Schilling // Writer // Army
Craig Schilling is a Veteran Artist and a returning contributor to ANVAM
Statement from the artist: Life Is Messy is one man’s journey through the vagaries of life, ebbing and flowing from story to vignette and poetic verse. From the quiet turbulence of East Timor, the reality of Baghdad, the soaring of mountains to just what is it about life that confounds us to question it over and over. All this and a tad more…
The Story of my Stories
It started from nothing, like most things,
It snowballed from something like some nothings do,
It snowballed unheralded, till it roared every day,
It first popped as a thought bubble,
starting from the top, a name ‘Life Is Messy’, its pages lay empty,
Till I looked, and couldn’t stop looking,
Each day, each moment, enveloped within and entwined,
One story, then another, ebbed furiously, beckoning change,
Doggedly tired, but desiring much, from such a small start,
And now, many days on its road?
Quiet pride and accomplishment, heralding words and a heartbeat a new.
