The Poet Spiel is a prolific writer and artist: hundreds of his pieces have been published internationally for decades. His newest book is Revealing Self in Pictures and Words (2018), available at Amazon. It’s taken him a lifetime to become reasonably competent at understanding why he is the way he is and how to accept his Self. Amidst his 8th decade on earth, coping with manic-depressive disorder and vascular dementia, art is the friend which has withstood the petty and the foolish, the graceful, the garish and the grand of a diverse career.