Caden White Silicone Wrist Bands and other items for Christmas and support

My son Cadenrelapsed with Neuroblastoma cancer on November 7th, 2008, and to help spread the word, support him and to let people know to be praying for him, I had some silicone wrist bands made that are made the same way as the Lance Armstrong blacelets. All proceeds will go to his fund “The Caden White Irrevocable Trust”. Purchase them here. Also, I am offering “Tiny Mantel Clocks by Darin” for sale with the proceeds after cost going to his fund. I will customize them as needed, with the price varying independent to what is required. I have solid walnut wood, poplar wood and frosted acrylic with varying face styles. Please contact me to discuss these further. I will try and set up a PayPal setup for this as well.

Caden White Silicone Wrist Band

Color Choices for Caden White Silicone Wrist Bands

Darin M. White Frosted Acrylic Tiny Mantle Clock with Black Setup

Darin M. White Solid Walnut with Wood Burned Wings Tiny Mantle Clock with Black Setup

Darin M. White Solid Walnut with Wood Burned Wings Tiny Mantle Clock with Black Setup Detail 1

Darin M. White Solid Walnut with Wood Burned Wings Tiny Mantle Clock with Black Setup Detail 2

Also, I have posted this before, but as it is Christmas time and this also supports my son please check out
Swede at Heart for Caden’s Sterling Silver Hope Necklace. She gives a very large portion to support Caden.
Thank you Ann!

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KU NATIONAL NCAA 2008 BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS!

Bob Donnan/US Presswire
Mario Chalmers' tying shot was the biggest Final Four basket in 21 years.

A/P ESPN Photo by Eric Gay

Photo: Thad Allender and Seperate Text by Solomultimedia

What an amazing game! I am going to have to go have a massage today. I was so tense. We were grateful to be able to go over to Bob and Martha's who were great hosts. Mr. B and I went downtown Lawrence after the game and joined as many as 40,000+ fans in our town of 100,000.

Here is a great article about the game

Bob Donnan/US Presswire

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The hug lasted for minutes. After hitting the biggest Final Four jumper since Keith Smart's in 1987, Mario Chalmers summoned his mother, Almarie, down from the Alamodome stands to courtside. The unflappable Kansas Jayhawk wrapped both arms around her, laid his head on her shoulder and bawled like a baby. She pumped her left arm. He wouldn't let go.
"We did it, Mom," Chalmers said between sobs. "A dream come true," Almarie said later, her own eyes glistening. "A prayer answered. We've been waiting on this moment since he was 2."
This moment -- this Shining Moment -- was almost preordained four years earlier, when Mario went to the Final Four in this same building with his dad, current Kansas director of basketball operations Ronnie Chalmers. They watched Connecticut beat Georgia Tech for the title, and Ronnie remembers one spectacular play from that game when he jumped to his feet but Mario remained in his chair. "What's wrong?" Ronnie asked his son. "I'm thinking," Mario said.
"What are you thinking about?" "One day," Mario said, "I'm going to be out there winning the national championship." That goal guided the Chalmers family from Alaska to Kansas three years ago. It guided them to this game and ultimately to this moment -- this Shining Moment -- that rescued Kansas from near-certain defeat and gave the 2008 NCAA tournament its signature.
Chalmers' shot capped the Jayhawks' steely nine-point comeback in the final 2:12 of regulation on their way to a 75-68 overtime triumph. It was the blow that broke an excellent Tigers squad -- a Tigers squad that turned the school's first championship into a stunning championship choke. "You have a lead like that," coach John Calipari said, "you're supposed to win the game."
The emotional whiplash that followed Chalmers' 3-pointer with 2.1 seconds remaining will be felt for years on both campuses. Memphis will always love a team that finished 38-2 -- but always wince at the way it unraveled at the very end. And giddy Kansas now has another name to add to its list of all-time heroes: Clyde Lovellette, Wilt Chamberlain, Danny Manning …
Mario Chalmers.

I thought it was going in when it left my hands.
--Mario ChalmersOn the 20th anniversary of Danny and the Miracles' winning Kansas' last championship, give a Rock Chalk salute to Miracle Mario.
"It will probably be the biggest shot in Kansas history," coach Bill Self said.
The kid scored 18 on the night, earning Most Outstanding Player honors. But the replay that will live forever in Lawrence will focus on a single shot. For years to come, kids all over Kansas will go into the driveway or the backyard or the gym and pretend to be Mario Chalmers swishing that jumper. With 10.8 seconds left, Self diagrammed the play. It called for the potential tying shot to be in Chalmers' calm hands -- a pass from penetrating Sherron Collins for a 3.
Of course Chalmers was the choice: He has home-state ice water in his veins. He's been good in the clutch his entire career. "In YMCA and AAU and high school, he was always the go-to guy," Ronnie Chalmers said. For the go-to guy's shot to matter, though, Kansas needed at least one more in a nightmarish series of missed free throws from Memphis.
Awful foul shooting was the endlessly discussed weakness of these Tigers, but they had made it a moot point in three straight rampaging NCAA tournament victories over Michigan State, Texas and UCLA. Now, with the title right there for the taking, star junior Chris Douglas-Roberts missed three straight, leaving the door open for Kansas.
Then, with 10.8 seconds on the clock, sensational freshman Derrick Rose stood on the line with Memphis up two, trying to ice it. His first shot hit the rim and fell off. He made the second, but the one miss gave Kansas its opportunity to tie.
Collins dribbled upcourt and veered to his right -- almost losing the ball as Memphis players hacked at him, trying to foul and prevent a 3 from being hoisted. Collins' strength probably prevented a whistle, though, and he shoved a pass to Chalmers as he came curling off the wing.
The ball came up into Chalmers' chest. He took one rushed dribble to his left and elevated. Rose jumped with him, arm outstretched. Chalmers arched the shot over Rose's fingers and into the tension-drenched Texas air. "I thought it was going in when it left my hands," Chalmers said.
Teammate Brandon Rush, who was directly underneath the basket, concurred.
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AP Photo/Matt York
Kansas' first title in 20 years was as dramatic as it gets.
"I could see it splash right in there," Rush said. "Pretty cool."
Blessed with a good sight line in the stands behind the play, Almarie Chalmers knew, too.
"I saw it going straight in," she said. "When it hit the bottom of the net, I breathed."
Everyone else screamed. Kansas fans in ecstasy. Memphis fans in agony.
The Tigers had nothing left in overtime. No momentum. No Joey Dorsey, who had fouled out. No legs for tired Douglas-Roberts and cramping Rose. Kansas scored the first six in OT to take command of a game it had come amazingly close to losing.

Earlier in the second half, as the game began slipping away from the Jayhawks, Self was telling his players, "You've got to believe." But the situation was dire enough that when Memphis' Robert Dozier went to the foul line with 2:12 left and the Tigers up seven,

Ronnie Chalmers reached into his pocket for some divine guidance. On a piece of paper, he'd written two verses from Psalms: 46:10 and 46:1. He pulled them out and read them to himself.
"Be still, and know that I am God," reads 46:10.
"God is a refuge and strength. A very present help in trouble," reads 46:1.
"We were in trouble at that time," Ronnie said.

Ya think? The trouble deepened when Dozier swished both free throws. The lead was 60-51 as the clocked slipped inside two minutes. This was desperate.
But Chalmers and Collins -- two guards who had taken some very bad shots as Memphis asserted itself -- rode to the rescue. Chalmers passed to Darrell Arthur for a jump shot that made it 60-53. Then, after a timeout, Collins made the two plays that really made it a ballgame -- he stole the ball from Antonio Anderson and, after a couple of quick passes, got it back in the corner for a 3-pointer. Until then, Kansas was 1-for-9 from 3-point range. Collins swished it.
After a pair of Douglas-Roberts free throws, Chalmers made a pair of his own. That set the stage for Memphis' foul-line debacle, which was augmented by a bad decision to attack the basket with 20 seconds left instead of pulling the ball out and killing clock while clinging to a two-point lead.
But all the Memphis foibles down the stretch could have been survived if Chalmers hadn't hit the shot of a lifetime. "First, I'm happy for Mario," Ronnie Chalmers said. "Then I'm happy for Coach Self -- he was long overdue for this. Then I'm happy for the team.
"It's great for a parent to see their son's dream come true. … You've got to think about it every day the rest of your life. This is the moment." One Shining Moment.
Pat Forde is a senior writer for ESPN.com. He can be reached at ESPN4D@aol.com.
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Healing: "Heart Injection - Faith, Hope & Love"

I finished an art piece recently again dealing with the subject of my son Caden's fight with neuroblastoma cancer. I posted a few images here, but you can see more either at http://www.darinwhite.com/ or http://darinwhite.wordpress.com/ which is the blog I keep a little more updated. Here is an introduction to the work.

Title: Healing: “ Heart Injection - Faith, Hope & Love”
Media: Hand Carved Cedar Wood, Wood Burned, Cast Lead & Pin Inclusion (Which is known to cause cancer in the state of Kansas) Size: 12”L x 2 ½”W x 6 ¼”D

Series from Fall 2007- Present – HEALING:

Introduction-
My son Caden White age four was diagnosed with neuroblastoma cancer
(a nervous system cancer in children with around 600 diagnoses per year) June 28th, 2007. He has been through six of the seven, three to four day chemo rounds, had a stem cell harvest, and had invasive surgery to remove the tumor. In addition to this the doctors would like him to have a bone marrow transplant and eventually have radiation treatments, additional treatments, and then possibly antibody therapy. He is currently showing no evidence of disease. I had never had to deal with any healing issues, but this stirred within me a desire to release these thoughts and feelings that I have surrounding Caden’s health issues. I feel like working through these ideas in my art has been very helpful to try and focus on the positive things rather on the negative. I don’t want to downplaying the pain or gloss over heartache, but rather show it in the burning cleansing trial by fire which brings impurities to the surface, so that they can be removed, the poison and pain of medical treatments, all of which is overcome with seared wings of faith, sincere hope, truth, beauty and above all love. I feel called as an artist to address ideas and truths through my artwork that calls from deep within me to deep within the viewer.

Since it is near Christmas time, and we have had multiple requests for Caden's Hope Necklace information again, I am reposting this previous post.

We did have an article written up in the Lawrence Journal World about Ann selling these at the recent Lawrence Art Center Holiday Art Fair.
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Below is the original post:


Our friend Ann who produces a beautiful jewelery line, is offering a necklace especially for our son Caden as a way of helping out with his medical costs. This is an amazingly sweet gesture, and the jewelery is very well designed and made. I cannot thank Ann enough for her support in this way and the many other ways that she has helped us. Thank you Ann! Click on the above image or go to the page on her website for more information or click here.
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For an update on Caden you can go to http://cadenwhite.com/ . He is scheduled for surgery this Friday, December 14th. We appreciate your prayers.
If you have more questions contact me by email:
Thank you,
Darin White

See first post here

The Lawrence Art Center - Healing for the Arts IV: "Surviving and Thriving" Show is now up! Below is a quick shot of Shannon and my work. To see it well, you should come down to the art center and see for yourself. The show opening is on the 20th of Oct, but it is veiwable now!

The top work is mine and the bottom my wife Shannon's based on healing issues surrounding the neuroblastoma cancer that our son Caden is fighting. Below is a link to a hope necklace that a friend of ours produced for our son.

You can see some of my other work here or my wife's here.

I haven't posted on this site for a while. Besides starting an artist group with my wife called BALM we have been very busy. My son Caden was diagnosed with Nueroblastoma cancer June 28th, 2007. Click the image below to see a post on one of my other blogs with a sculpture that I am working on about his condition and situation.

I wanted to post a piece that I am working on. I have been very interested in carving wood lately. I don't know why exactly, but it seems like I am getting back to my roots. The first time I remember working 3-D was always in wood. My dad gave me a pocket knife when I was 8 and after I learned by getting three stitches, I carved him two swords crossing and attached them to a tree truck slab. I also carved a horse, but he did the majority of the work on this one.

Anyway, below is a cedar piece I am working on and set aside for a while to figure out what to do with it. I will post later a wood form that I am working on for a commissioned piece.

You can see my main site at http://darinwhite.com/.

a little red paint goes a long way...

so shanshan has inspiration hit. she goes down to her studio to work on a new painting. at 1:30am in the morning i convince her we should go to bed since we have meeting at 9am. we start getting ready to shut our eyes and she screams! she had stepped on a red tube of paint and it was all over her shoes. she walked into the house, up the stairs and was putting things away for 10 minutes before realizing how many places you can make footprints in 10 minutes. aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh! so after awhile of finding red paint wherever we look, we decide we will have to deal with it tomorrow. in the morning we continue to find red all over including clothes, chairs, more clothes, stairs. pretty much anything that rhymes had red paint in the general area.

so we decide we need to get out of the house from our red frustrating day/night. we decide to go to a reception showing nick vacarro's work. we enter the eatery to find more blue hair than picasso's blue period. i think the median age was around 75. now don't get me wrong, i have no problem and in fact enjoy any age group, but we are sticking out like a sore thumb. after signing in we are greeted by far the two youngest in the group who is around 50-60. we introduce ourselves. they say, how did you know the pucketts? oh...um...well...we were invited to see the nick vicarro paintings. oh, i don't know nick. i would like to meet him. shanshan says. um...well maybe so. she didn't happen to mention he passed away in the last few years. so we are ushered over to meet mr. and mrs. puckett. they seem to be having their 60th wedding anniversary in conjunction to the viewing of nick vicarro's paintings. they smiled and were very kind, and we quickly went to the punch bowl with the kids. we sat at a table with 4 others. they were very kind. one of the hosts comes over to figure out how we know the pucketts as they can't quite remember how they know us, but with everything going on and so forth. we...um...know nick and he...um...well they...invited us tonight. so we continue to exchange social niceties with our very kind table partners. we get involved in some random party pics. we smiley nicely and pose. i mentioned how the punch was very delicious and enjoyed the fact that you could eat the fruit after drinking the liquid. i think there was a nice murmur, or maybe i thought i heard something like this. shanshan says quietly to me something about this was a famous artist who knew nick? i said that we might not want to figure out why we are here, as the reason might be called crashing a party. our kids start to have behavior problems and shanshan, takes them over to get some cheese. the wife of the 60th anniversary, asks her again how she knows us, as she is blocking the grub. shanshan decides that she might come clean and say that she is not sure, how we are connected in any way shape or form. anyway...the kids are acting up too much and i might be running out of conversation ideas with our table buddies. shanshan takes a look at the paintings while dragging the kids by the arms and makes a bolt for the door. i decide i better follow, and as politely as possible excuse myself. i think i was asked about 10 times how i knew the pucketts. so out the door we go. on to the next party, a bar mitzvah down the street...with red paint on our shoes.