(By the end of this web site you'll know the answer.)
Col Roger Donlon, GEN Westmoreland's ADC, the first Medal of Honor
in the Vietnam War, sent Carroll the Four-star general's invitation.
"I only use D'Arches bright white, cold press, super heavy weight watercolor sheets. D'Arches was founded in Burgundy, France in 1492, the year Columbus discovered America, the ruler and arts patron Lorenzo Medici was born in Italy (Who sponsored Botticelli and Michelangelo), and the first lead (graphite) pencils were made. Albrecht Dürer, Matisse, and Picasso used D'Arches. It is timelessly, totally top shelf, and therefore, very, very, very expensive.
One of my colorful little watercolors is between two original Picasso's and Chagall on a Texas cattle ranch. That's all a newsworthy confession."
HISTORY - Arches Papers (arches-papers.com)
(Ask me how I learned to paint clouds.)
Ooh, 1893 Columbians (#230 to #244) and Scott #285 to #293!
They trained my eyes to notice finely-detailed, monochromatic
engravings of fabulous storytelling paintings reduced-in-size
to a postage stamp. I loved those postage stamps.
I sifted shoe box stamp collections for a rare Franklin Z Grill.
Imagine that $4 million bucks for one square inch of paper!
That makes the Bahrain 11 something you won't pass on.
Yep, I was an avid philatelist by 6th Grade. Today, my crazy idea
is that a vault is a Solander case full of original Carroll's, or
a traveling solo art exhibit to strategic cities worldwide."
Carroll was drawing and composing - As a 4 y/o.
(Don't put the art before the horse.)
"... stand out of my sunlight."
- Diogenes Laërtius (Διογένης), born in about 411 BC
EARLY INFLUENCES
A 7th-Grade English teacher who required Carroll
to learn 100 words three definitions deep every week for one year.
Ms. Kathy Dugas, 7th-Grade Art, General Wayne JHS, GVSD,
graduate Moore College of Art in Philadelphia, PA.
(She refined Carroll's drawing skill. Women love his fingers.)
Mr. J.C. Peden, 7th-Grade Science, General Wayne JHS, GVSD,
the scientific method, wrestling coach.
Mr. Gregory Pierce, 8th-Grade Geography, General Wayne JHS, GVSD,
a heart for National Parks, wrestling coach.
BG Woodrow M. Kessler USMC-R, GVSD 11th Grade
Art Appreciation, Bronze Star, POW, USMC Hall of Fame,
Author: To Wake Island and Beyond Reminiscences.
(BGen Kessler's lessons underpin all Carroll's paintings,
the purple thistle drawing, Beauty in Essence, and
Carroll's B+W entomological pen and inks.)
Mr. Melvin Schucker, Great Valley Senior High School, GVSD,
tennis coach.
Norman Bramall, Haverford College,
Hall of Fame tennis coach
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"My very first scrimmage at Kansas, I got dunked on so hard
by Tarik Black that I almost quit. Tarik dunked on me so hard
that I was looking at plane tickets home." He didn't give up.
SEE what he accomplished afterward: Joel Embiid - Wiki
- No. 21, Center Joel Embiid, Philadelphia 76ers
Sports: Little League Baseball, Varsity tennis, 5 years JV wrestling,
horseback riding, pommel horse in gymnastics, Kung Fu, IM softball,
elite track bicycle racing (RHR 28, VO2 Max 75, HT 5' 7.5," WT 117),
20+ years running, race walking, racquetball, powerwalking, ...
"I started running in late May 1977. Now, 47 years later,
I power walk 4.25 miles in 47 to 48 minutes, daily ---
My goal for 80% effort is 5.381 miles per hour.
Seconds, just like pennies, still add up!
"My first shoes were Onitsuka Tigers 鬼塚商会. I quit wearing them and
bought a new pair of Bill Bowerman's Waffle Trainers every 250 miles - 13 pairs per year. A 1980 Olympic Team marathoner in Athens, GA kept telling me about them. Benji ran lightly, swiftly like a Thompson's gazelle. I held his stopwatch as he lapped the American record holder in an 1-hour race. 71, 72," 71," 72," 70," 71," ...
As I recall, minutes before he'd won the 800m, 1500, and the steeplechase.
Benji even stopped in the center lane to put on some dry racing flats!
All I ever heard were his shoes lightly swooshing as he passed by.
He'd jogged 2 miles backwards while talking with me at my 5:53 pace my first day running --- The Georgia State Cycling Track Championships were bright and early the very next morning at Eastpoint Velodrome in Atlanta. I raced.
(Benji was one of the very best in the world.)
In Jersey, I ran a 10K PB at a 5:09 pace and placed 22nd on a daily diet
of 10 to 22 sub-6 miles, ~¾ mile behind the winner. #11 was a 29:30.
'The race is not to the swift, but to those who keep on running.'
I'm at a loss with all the new stuff flooding the market.
They were comfortable, like the timeless art masterpieces,
which everybody worldwide knows and loves.
They're high end classics like Iconic da Vinci, Vincent van Gogh,
Monet, Girl with a Pearl Earring, ... even Picasso!'
NIKE athletic shoes are fine art.
"YOU CAN PAY BACK ONLY SELDOM, BUT
YOU CAN ALWAYS PAY FORWARD."
- Coach Woody Hayes
En homenaje a Sr. Alcaraz (An orphan at age 7): 33 or 34 originals to The Adoption Exchange, New Mexico Chapter, and one to National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation; Carroll is proud of donating to the National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation a 24k gold-leafed, hand-carved, signed and dated "Tallado a Mano Alcaraz 1994" that Sr. Alcaraz made for two of Carroll's paintings just his frames holding masterpieces in the exhibits at the Louvre, El Prado, Versailles, the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, ... the domiciles of kings and queens, the world's richest, HOF athletes, Hollywood, etc. (HRH The King of Spain had his Chief of Household write to Carroll that HRH liked Carroll's paintings of his country),.
Sr. Alcaraz charged Carroll absolutely nothing to teach him to do what he did.
Alcaraz enthusiastically chose to help me.
He should receive an honorary doctorate!
"The Truth be told, I highly value the well-being of others.
I use my artwork to achieve my childhood vision.
Dallas Morning News got wind of it and wrote a story or two.
I'm a truly pragmatic romantic on a deep level
who is OK with being left out, left behind, and ignored.
I am grateful."
- Carroll
The #1 REASON Carroll first took up the visual art hobby was to comfort those who mourn in memory of his older sister, Helen, deceased at age six.
COD, Reye's Syndrome. Surprise gifts were given through hospital volunteers, unknown to the Presidents/CEOs, to their hospitalized Christmas patients:
Parkland Memorial Hospital-Dallas, Baylor University Medical Center,
Children's Medical Center of Dallas, Cook Children's of Fort Worth,
and several more.
Collin County, The Lone Star State of TEXAS
CASA of Collin County, McKinney, Texas,
LifePath Systems (Collin County MHMR ), Texas,
ManeGait Therapeutic Horsemanship, McKinney, Texas,
Collin County History Museum in McKinney, Texas,
Holy Family School, McKinney, Texas,
Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, Plano, Texas,
Plano International Preschool, Texas,
The Plano Rotary Club, Texas,
Frisco Rotary Club, Frisco, Texas.
Dallas County, The Lone Star State of TEXAS
PCPC Women, Highland Park, Texas,
Dallas Children's Advocacy Center national convention, Texas,
Dallas Theological Seminary, Dallas, Texas,
Dallas Baptist University, Texas,
TeamConnor Childhood Cancer Foundation, Dallas, Texas,
Dallas Can Academy, Texas,
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society-Red River (North Texas)
and Gulf Coast Chapters, Houston, Texas,
Prairie and Timbers Audubon, Richardson, Texas.
Tarrant County, The Lone Star State of TEXAS
University of Texas at Arlington library, Texas,
North Fort Worth Historical Society, Texas,
Nolan Catholic High School, Fort Worth, Texas.
Bexar County, The Lone Star State of TEXAS
Fisher House at BAMC, Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
The Enchanted Land of New Mexico
The Adoption Exchange Chapter in Albuquerque, New Mexico
American Red Cross New Mexico,
American Cancer Society New Mexico,
LLS Team in Training New Mexico.
The In God We Trust State of Florida
Claire and Dan Marino (Autism) Foundation, Florida.
I PLEDGE TO SUPPORT THE FOLLOWING IN 2024
① Western Rivers Conservancy endowment, Portland, Oregon,
② Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing, LaPlata, Maryland,
③ Northwest College endowment, Powell, Wyoming,
④ WATER, LIGHT, Grounding, forest bathing, ...
"I'm here because 120+ brave SEALs - UDT-14, kept my dad's
boat (DE-693/APD-78) unscratched in every battle.
Pop got his first battle scars as a U.S. Navy corpsman
when he landed in the Third Tide on Dog Green.
He was a chief medical officer when he was deployed
in the Lingayen Gulf, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa.
Above all, Pop loved teaching, mentoring, coaching.
My dad demanded excellence but expected virtuosity.
Poppy was the world #1 dermatologist and was sought by
doctors, the best and brightest researchers, students,
the world's richest and Hall of Fame pro athletes.
He was an unusually gifted diagnostician.
It always meant working harder and smarter than
others would, the way all champions sleep-in.
I love Coach Herb Brooks words,
'Again! Again! Again! ...' "
CARROLL's INFJ-A Résumé
0. Carroll was born at CHOP, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and
grew up in Chester Springs - 28 miles west of Philadelphia, PA.
His dad was a banker's oldest child (a doctor) from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
His mom was a doctor's daughter (a doctor) from Mount Vernon, South Dakota.
1. A Farm Boy Work Ethic. Drove farm tractors 8 to 10 hours daily as an 8 y/o.
Built stone walls, set post and rail, did remodeling, mucked stalls, pointed flagstone, plowed and shoveled, weeded, edged, pruned, trimmed, cleared hedgerows, scraped and painted whatever wanted to be done.
"My ΦΒΚ mom became a Pediatrician, taught at CHOP, and was
Dr. Bill Nelson's first guest editor of Nelson's North American Pediatrics.
She quietly shattered the male-dominated medical world's barrier.
My dad was a world famous, ebullient dermatologist who loved to teach.
He was a heck of a diagnostician. The best and brightest sought him.
He was a medical school professor at Temple and had an enormous private practice serving the rich and powerful, Hall of Fame pro athletes, doctors, and blue-collar workers. He was the Director at Skin & Cancer Hospital built especially for him by the Brooklyn Bridge builder's super rich Roebling Family. An heiress led the charge. Her husband was an insurance executive and avian watercolorist.
My best friend, my Little League team's backstop, became a MIT physicist
at 10 y/o. Me? Well, I was doing microdissections, making Riker mounts,
and going to hear meaty lectures at the Academy of Natural Sciences and
playing in our woodland stream, the 2nd order W. Branch of Pigeon Run.
I had a homemade running water Mayfly aquarium in my bedroom.
Kenneth Roberts' historic novels (Rabble in Arms, Arundel, Northwest Passage, ...) were my all-time favorite books, those novels, and my dogeared Hornady® Handbook of Cartridge Reloading. The Academy's Frontiers and Scientific American Magazine were equally dogeared. Pop gave me an English racing bike, a compound microscope, and a fielder's baseball glove with a can of neatsfoot oil when I was 5 or 6 y/o. He had been a jock and knew a lot about everything."
Pop's 'Ave curator cutis' was only skin deep, but
my watercolors promote good health stem to stern.
The more I change the more I become my true self,
living humbly as I came from a pile of dust."
2. Benthic Insect Principal Investigator, Academy of Natural Sciences of
Philadelphia, where environmental consulting began --- in the world --- AND the 1st Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Regs were co-written by Carroll's Insect Survey boss at Stroud Water Research Center of the Academy in Southern Chester County steeplechase and fox hunt country - Jay was an Ephemeropterist and avid Orvis fly fisherman amused by Carroll's crazy bike racing moxie.
"I was a Mayfly specialist but, mediocre angler. I raced my bicycles up and down the East Coast then, ran 5K's, 10k's, and marathons, and flew front seat in a barnstorming biplane at a Virginia airshow. I amassed 91 blue ribbons telling that story in a few months. However, personally, the Cinelli M-71's took the cake."
Carroll was enrolled in the Academy's Junior Curators Club as a 5 y/o.
3. A RESULTS-ORIENTED Storyteller Serving Elite Leaders.
Founder and started from scratch in an entirely new MSA.
Carroll was chief, cook, and bottle washer of his boutique firm
serving the presidents of medical societies, hemispheric corporate
officers, elite CPAs, law partners, investors, developers, etc.
Now, I'm partial to pro sports and fly flingers.
The world's dean of brain surgery saw Carroll first draft of Ode to Joy,
and said, "SIMPLY INSPIRATIONAL."
"The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let go of the outcome. The ride is a lot more fun that way."
- Head Coach Phil Jackson, author, Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success,
11x NBA champion with Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers.
EUROPEAN (FRENCH-GERMAN)
------------------------------------ ANCESTRY ------------------------------------
The Burgoons are the Burguns from Burgundy, France, and were until our cordwainer patriarch, Jean Jacques Burgun, anglicized our family name (in 1740) while aboard the Palatinate tall ship Lydia sailing to Baltimore, MD in the Colonies. (P. 91, Ellis Island, NY Harbor records.) Burgoon's were of the pugilistic Burgundiōnes who kicked butt all over Europe starting in ca. 249 AD after they returned to the mainland from Burgundarholmr Island, Denmark. The Kingdom of the Burgundians became a renown part of France --- Burgundy, France; others joined Attila's Hun army, or relocated to Swiss chalets. Carroll's great, great, ... uncle signed with Gen. George Washington's Continental Army that tented on Rebel Hill (Where Carroll lived), and Washington's blood-stained Army, marched past The Overhanging Rock at Gulph Mills for a frigid winter at Valley Forge,
then beat the world's most powerful army. Carroll was named after freemason Marylander, Charles Carroll of Carrollton (CCC), as were his dad and granddad. CCC was JJ Burgoon's next door neighbor in a German community. Jean Jacques Burgun was a stylish shoemaker who made, sold, and designed shoes. JJ was a French shoe dog! Many of Carroll's watercolor fans are mega-UHNWIs, heirs, heiresses, medical specialists, and pro athletes.
A G.O.A.T.'s LEGACY Performance is a drilled habit that looks soooo easy. My 7th Grade Science teacher, my wrestling coach, taught me this. He called it Meiosis. I call it Peak Performance. Because it's about having the cojones to just do it.
"Quite simply, I experienced an overwhelming urge to express what I saw through the medium of watercolor and to convey that almost ‘inner’ sense of texture which is impossible to achieve via photography." - HRH King Charles, in an article by Oscar Holland, CNN, January 12, 2022. HRH enjoys watercolor painting plein air landscapes to support charity. Before him, HRH Queen Victoria was an avid watercolorist preferring a Winsor & Newton Series 7.
"In the heat of battle, Navy Capt John Paul Jones ordered: 'NAIL THE COLORS TO THE MAST.' Monet's waterlilies were forest green and he painted them that way. I painted a prominent business leader's historic yellow house forest green, the way I saw it. The Executive Director stated that's the way the family's home originally was. The Truth is always the best truth."
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