This page is made in observation of a great friend, the man always at my side no matter how stupid I maybe, John Slate. I herein will refer to John Slate, as, “Tinky”. He is one of many ‘John’-s that I am friends with (a bit of a problem), and his love for the mischievous mystical creatures known as fairies (as opposed to other types) and apparent contrast to being small and nimble gave him that name. At many points within this site I will make comments about Tinky, these are neither to belittle him, nor to glorify myself, but rather to show the responses that another (more grounded) individual would have to the situations faced. Tinky may be the only reason so many things happened. Together we have biked, hiked and journeyed on opposite ends of the earth. I am fortunate to have such a friend.

Tinky is an artist through and through. He's a great one at that. Other than art, well, he and I are efforting to figure out what he is capable of, but we know he's go the art thing down pat.