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"My world known doctor dad, son of a banker, demanded disciplined excellence and expected immediate virtuosity. He was an active battlefield doctor on D-Day and in the Pacific. The family that built the Brooklyn Bridge built a specialty hospital for him. My University of South Dakota PBK mom was also a MD doctor who signed me up in the Junior Curators Club at Academy of Natural Sciences - I was a 5 y/o.

budding young scientist who played in the woodland stream below our 3-story fieldstone home built by Welshman Griffith Jones in 1751.

Mom taught Peds at CHOP, University of Pennsylvania, then got Board Certified in Dermatology and joined my dad's practice.

My childhood pal, our Little League Baseball catcher went to M.I.T. (Physics) at 10 y/o. Similarly, I blazed my own pathway, as a freshwater scientist and later as a watercolor artist. So, I dance on the corpus collosum. Eventually, I was disconnected and disinherited.

"I was given a Sigma Xi stipend for my Honor's Thesis and worked on an NSF study. I QUIT: An Entomology Masters and an Ecology PhD, and two MBAs, BUT grazed in research libraries. Nope, I didn't go to the Royal College of Art --- SCAD, Yale, SAIC or Rhode Island,

but a rarer '500+ y/o' art classroom.

"Sport: Competitive wrestling, tennis, Kung Fu, bicycle track racing and, running 10ks, ..., prepared me for a life as an artist/painter.

"Art appreciation can no more be absorbed by aimless wandering in galleries than can surgery be learned by casual visits to a hospital."

- Dr. Albert C. Barnes, PhD, MD

Carroll went to see Dr. Barnes art collection at his home in Merion.

It was an 11th-grade Art Appreciation class trip.

"I'm curious but no history buff. I was named after my dad and his dad in honor of our next-door neighbor, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, signer of our Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. Our newly wed patriarch, a cordwainer, sailed into Baltimore, MD from Burgundy, France in 1740. I am a Frenchman on my dad's side and 3rd generation orange Irish on my mother's Smiley-side via Quebec, Canada.

"A Brazilian heiress, Helena Braga Pereira da Cunha, granddaughter of José Agostinho Pereira da Cunha co-founder of Clube de Regatas do Flamengo (CRF) whose life-sized statue adorns the front of the rowing/soccer clubhouse, arranged my studies with Spaniard D. Fco. Alcaraz, artist to kings and queens, superstar actors and Hall of Fame pro athletes - France's Louvre, Spain's El Prado, NYC's Met, the Palace at Versailles, the private collection of Long Island's Walter Chrysler, Jr., ... An Oklahoma oil heiress paid my way to Spain with a proviso she'd get the first pick after I returned to Texas. A cutting horse-loving, oil heiress paid my way to Spain provided 1st pick when I returned - She was a Hockaday and SMU grad married to a famous Dallas Cowboy.

At home I gave 500+ keynotes in 12 months then got back to painting.

 I am authentic.

"I was invited to Four-star General William Westmoreland's 50th wedding anniversary on Queen Mary along with 40 Medal of Honors and two knight commanders of priories of the Knights of Malta,

who reported to the Pope in Rome, Italy. Westie's wife, Kitsy, had their son take her picture with me. I was the guest of a Knight of Malta member of the Petroleum Club. Home, it was a catered lunch in the office of the world's dean of neurosurgery at Medical City Dallas.

"I got letters fromThe King of Spain, Former First Lady Nancy Reagan, ... Bob Hope's wife, Trammel Crow on Turtle Creek and others.

"Former USCENTCOM Commander, Four-star General Tommy Franks penned the foreword to my 1st book, Ode to Joy (OTJ),

which shared a Leadership Institute bookshelf with the autographed autobiographies of former POTUS 'W', PM Thatcher, SECDEF Rumsfeld, and General Colin Powell and General Franks. A Hall of Fame Nashville musician made the personal introduction. I asked the General for a personal introduction to President George "W" Bush. Fifteen minutes later I had it. The world's first billionaire, multibillionaire Ross Perot, Sr., founder of EDS called me at 10AM one morning to coach me; A First Edition OTJ  was seen on his daughter's desk by his family head of security in the ARCO building in Plano, Texas U.S.A.

A Navy SEAL's dad saw OTJ in Australia! There is one remaining.

"I'm blessed by teachers, oil and gas, medicine, military, ... heiresses.

"'This [Carroll] will hang between my 2 Picassos and a Chagall on my ranch.'  I global business owner told me. You should have watched him giddily bidding against himself, as if he was the Crown Prince bidding

for Leonardo da Vinci's $350,400,000 Salvator Mundi in 2017.

Oh well, the aforementioned is all in the past.

"My oeuvre of 750+ artworks began upon the loss of my sister, Helen, when I was 4 y/o and ended with my atelier demo Following the Cloud.

Mine is a life of miracles."

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