I am a 74 year old woman who has been a member of Self-Realization Fellowship for 53 years. I am writing a spiritual book and a autobiography/memoir. I was raised upper middle class. My mother is a genius who graduated from high school at age 16 and they held her back or it would have been age 12. I am an artist that does portraits and abstracts and animals. I helped build our own house. I have some college credits in art and Classic Chinese cooking and English. I have had art in high school and college. I got an article published in the college newspaper and worked for the Nevada Appeal Newspaper. I got a cartoon published.