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Benjamin Hose is graduating high school!
Believe it or not, there was a time when the fact of Ben’s graduation, the assumption of it, was not a given… not a definite thing.
We were taking it day by day; or ‘grade by grade,’ as the case may be…
I (June) lived with my older brother in Ben’s earlier years, and I saw the struggles...
The different schools, the supplemental after-school programs, etc.
This had nothing to do with brains, or smarts…
Ben is and has always been an imaginative being, a creative thinker, an appreciator of hidden uniquenesses…
In short: an indigo kid whose talents were not always detectable by the current day’s scholastic measures… I thought…
That said, Ben’s struggles and anxieties were real…
There was always the question of how to encourage his creative interests while also stressing the importance of comprehensive good grades….
Then…
Some time in high school after his freshman year, his grades suddenly began improving dramatically…
“How did this just kind of happen?” I remember asking my brother….
“Art,” he replied.
The short of it is this: Ben got serious about his ‘Art’ with a capital ‘A’, and that capital ‘A’ became an interior Anchor that gave him comfort, security, Identity…
And somehow, osmotically, the confidence borne from that relationship with Art helped boost his other subject areas…
I’d watched Ben work on his drawings over the years, improving first slowly, then dramatically…
Drawing out talents of eye and hand as he explored with different themes and mediums...
More importantly, I remember noticing how Ben would work out his moods through his artwork, drawing now with more fury, drawing now with more patience…
Art has provided Ben with both a sense of an interior self and ready access to an outside path: Ben starts at Cornish College of the Arts this Fall…
It’s a giant move for Ben, and one of the daunting elements is the college’s exorbitant tuition...
Even with scholarship help, Ben falls significantly short of the $35,000 per-year price tag, which his father David, raising them as a single parent, cannot come close to covering in full...
The Hoses are deeply proud of Ben, and want to support him in every way we can as he takes this next important step in his life…
Help us send this glowing indigo kid to the next level…
All donations will go directly toward his upcoming college tuition…
Much love,
Uncle June
Believe it or not, there was a time when the fact of Ben’s graduation, the assumption of it, was not a given… not a definite thing.
We were taking it day by day; or ‘grade by grade,’ as the case may be…
I (June) lived with my older brother in Ben’s earlier years, and I saw the struggles...
The different schools, the supplemental after-school programs, etc.
This had nothing to do with brains, or smarts…
Ben is and has always been an imaginative being, a creative thinker, an appreciator of hidden uniquenesses…
In short: an indigo kid whose talents were not always detectable by the current day’s scholastic measures… I thought…
That said, Ben’s struggles and anxieties were real…
There was always the question of how to encourage his creative interests while also stressing the importance of comprehensive good grades….
Then…
Some time in high school after his freshman year, his grades suddenly began improving dramatically…
“How did this just kind of happen?” I remember asking my brother….
“Art,” he replied.
The short of it is this: Ben got serious about his ‘Art’ with a capital ‘A’, and that capital ‘A’ became an interior Anchor that gave him comfort, security, Identity…
And somehow, osmotically, the confidence borne from that relationship with Art helped boost his other subject areas…
I’d watched Ben work on his drawings over the years, improving first slowly, then dramatically…
Drawing out talents of eye and hand as he explored with different themes and mediums...
More importantly, I remember noticing how Ben would work out his moods through his artwork, drawing now with more fury, drawing now with more patience…
Art has provided Ben with both a sense of an interior self and ready access to an outside path: Ben starts at Cornish College of the Arts this Fall…
It’s a giant move for Ben, and one of the daunting elements is the college’s exorbitant tuition...
Even with scholarship help, Ben falls significantly short of the $35,000 per-year price tag, which his father David, raising them as a single parent, cannot come close to covering in full...
The Hoses are deeply proud of Ben, and want to support him in every way we can as he takes this next important step in his life…
Help us send this glowing indigo kid to the next level…
All donations will go directly toward his upcoming college tuition…
Much love,
Uncle June
Organizer and beneficiary
Teddy Hose
Organizer
San Francisco, CA
David Hose
Beneficiary