PASSIONS Art & More From Page 8 He is also noted for painting remarkable lifelike images on stones, stones of all shapes and sizes. When one sees Manners hauling
furniture in or out of the GBF store, ball cap on, sweat pouring from his brow, it is easy to forget this man in one of the foremost wildlife artists Canada has. It is also easy to forget Manners is a man with real-life challenges on a daily basis. “The most valuable thing I own is my $10 Timex watch. Time is most important to me because I know I will never have enough to do all the things I want to
Rick Manners with the little book that started it all, and a work on rock of Arrow, his faithful dog.
do in my life. When asked, Manners reluctantly stumbles through the long, complicated name for his serious afflication. “I really don’t want to dwell on it, but it is a bone marrow thing. Basically I have about 100 times more platelets than I should. My white and red blood cell counts are fine. I go in every three months for my ‘oil change’, I call it. They draw about about 1,000 ml of blood. It is very dark, almost black,” noted Manners. “I’ll have to do that every three months for the rest of my life. When I’m there, I just tell the doctors, ‘Just tell me what I need to do and I’ll do it, cause I got to get back to work’.” “It is one of life’s obstacles. It is one of the cards dealt to you in life and you play it as best you can.” No matter what challengess life has presented Manners with, he only knows one way to meet them: head on.
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