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James Ratliff Gallery and Artist, Bruce Marion, Forge Public/Private Partnership in the Changing Face of Philanthropy

November 19, 20120

Sedona AZ (November 19, 2012) – Dynamic duos, James Ratliff and Bruce Marion, memorialize this season of giving. They model…

Hope Is Half of Having
By Tommy Acosta
Not only was that hurricane a devastation in the physical realm, but also a devastation of the soul as well. Try to imagine what it was and is like for those whose homes, properties, businesses, families, friends, hopes and dreams were swept into oblivion by the rampaging floods. No house. No food. No water. No beds. No computers. No toothbrushes. No clothes. No paperwork. No phones. No service. No electricity. No communication with the outside world. No place to bathe. No place to go to the bathroom. No toilet paper, even. No stores to buy anything. No authorities to direct them. Just mud. Devastation. Everything is gone. Panic. Disbelief. Shock as hopelessness plunges its cold blade into the hearts of those who lost all. It’s unfathomable. Can we, living in the comfort of Sedona, imagine the magnitude of that loss? How will these people survive? Where will they go? Will their lives ever be the same? Ten, even twenty years from now? Read more→