Thrive! (R) Sculpture & Thought by GChris1 is mission-driven and supports building a surviving and thriving future for all forever. It supports Thrive! (@ ThrivingFuture.org) and the Thrive! Endeavor (@ ThriveEndeavor.org) to create and empower a vast, sustained human endeavor building and sustaining a thriving and surviving future for all forever. Throughout this book, you will find thoughts and sculpture that challenge you to think about the future and help build, achieve and sustain a thriving future for all forever. For more, go to GChris Sculpture 2 GChris.com and to Thought & Sculpture Blogs @ ThriveSculpture.org and ThriveSculpture.com Thrive! Thought "Thrive! - All Thrive Forever" is the boldest of bold visions for our future. It is the future we all want and need. It is the future we can achieve. It is a thriving future for you and your family and friends. For you and your community. For you and your country. For our world. Thrive! Sculpture "Thrive!" sculpture symbolize the desire to thrive that is a natural force that drives human behavior. We, including our family and friends, our communities and our world aspire to thrive now and for the near and long term future. The call to artists and people generally is to embrace both art and advocacy, use their synergy, and advance toward a thriving future for all forever.
About the Author: Gary "Chris" Christopherson. Throughout his career, he worked on building a thriving and surviving future, health and human services and reducing vulnerability. He develops strategy and tools for building a thriving future for all. This work can be seen at ThriveEndeavor.org and ThrivingFuture.org. He wrote public policy books including Thrive! Endeavor(R) - All Thrive Forever; Thrive!(R) - People's Guide To A Thriving Future [For All Forever]; and Thrive!(R) - Building a Thriving Future. His public service includes: Associate Director, Presidential Personnel, Executive Office of the President, White House; Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary and Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs; Senior Advisor to the Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; Senior Fellow, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences; Chief Information Officer (CIO), Veterans Health Administration; and Director of Health Legislation, House Select Committee on Aging, U.S. House of Representatives. He served as member of the Senior Executive Service. He is an elected Senior Fellow of National Academy of Public Administration. As GChris, he is a sculptor of abstract art creating over 200 sculptures, working in wood and copper. GChris sculpture is mission-driven toward reducing vulnerability and building a thriving future for all forever. GChris.com. His Studio/Gallery is in an historic 1880s house and barn on a Mississippi River bluffside in Nelson, WI. Previously, his GChris Sculpture Studio/Gallery was in Georgetown, DC and University Park, MD. He wrote science fiction novels The Thrive! Endeavor and black box and children's books Angel, Creator of Artful Things and T!rrific [terrific] - What will you do to thrive? He wrote the sculpture and thought book, Thrive! Sculpture & Thought. He endowed the Thrive! Scholarship at the University of Wisconsin (Madison) and donated his Mississippi River bluff land for Thrive! Park. He lives in the Village of Nelson, WI and lived in University Park, MD in the greater Washington DC area. He graduated from University of Wisconsin (Madison) with a Bachelor's in Political Science and a Master's in Urban and Regional Planning. He also studied toward a doctoral degree at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health (Baltimore, MD).