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Vermont Romance David Lloyd Glover


The day 4-year-old David Lloyd Glover accompanied his dad to watch the Walt Disney animated film Fantasia on the big screen, his world changed. “I was overwhelmed by the remarkable imagery,” he recalls. “When my father told me it was all drawn and painted, I knew that’s what I wanted to do—and out came the paints.” The paints, and Glover’s abid- ing passion for them, remained with him through a successful career as a newspaper editorial illustrator and the founder and director of an award-win- ning advertising agency with clients that included Pepsi Cola, Yamaha, McDon- ald’s and the 1988 Winter Olympics. Upon leaving the ad industry, Glover returned to his first love: fine art. Describing his style as “vivid


impressionism,” Glover says his artistic influences are rooted in the masterworks of painters such as Renoir, Monet and Cézanne. His oils on canvas, which are collected worldwide, reflect the sensibili- ties of color and light that have made the paintings of Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh so magical and inspiring. Adept at capturing the atmosphere surrounding compositional elements, Glover creates a visceral connection with his viewers. “I want to bring out human emotions in my art,” he says. “I’m telling either a narrative or an emotional story using my artistic imag- ination, and I want viewers to feel a resonance and an impact.”


View the artist’s portfolio at DavidLGlover.com.


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icensed massage therapist Heather Burke, of Heather’s Ther- apeutic Massage, in St. Paul, offers microcurrent (neuro-mus- cular stimulation) as well as traditional massage techniques. “Massage and microcurrent together has been one of the most fascinating, healing combinations that I brought into my practice three years ago,” Burke says. She wanted to bring more relief to clients suffering from autoimmune diseases such as Lyme disease, arthritis, neuropathy and fibromyalgia, as well as carpal tunnel and repetitive stress discomfort, and


injuries to the soft tissues, spine and rotator cuff. Microcurrent therapy applies gentle, low-level electrical currents through elec- trodes placed in specific locations on the body to treat pain and inflammation. The process envelops injured muscular, fascia and nerve connection tissues with a fre- quency field that is identical to the frequencies found in normal, healthy tissue to promote and accelerate healing.


One reason she started using microcurrent was because of a friend with advanced


Lyme disease. When he first began receiving microcurrent therapy from Burke, he could barely walk, talk or think clearly, and he struggled with Tourette’s syndrome and depression. “After his microcurrent sessions, he was a lot more energetic, relaxed, humorous, articulate, focused and able walk without his cane,” Burke says. Now, af- ter three years, he comes in once a month for maintenance and is still making cumula- tive progress with each session. Another client started receiving microcurrent and massage therapy two years ago. At age 50 he had been in extreme pain due to multiple spinal injuries from a ski ac- cident 10 years earlier. He had broken vertebrae in his neck and mid and lower back and had been on high doses of painkillers. After receiving microcurrent and massage therapy once a week for three months, he was finally able to be on his feet for longer periods of time without having to lie down every two hours, and he had more strength and energy as well. “It’s been nearly two years, and he is now completely off pain- killers, and is able to live a more functional life,” Burke says. He now comes in for maintenance once a month as well. “I’ve been excited by my clients’ progress after receiving microcurrent and mas-


sage therapy,” Burke says. “This has improved their quality of living, whereas before they were mired in physical pain.”


Heather’s Therapeutic Massage is located at 905 Jefferson Ave., Ste. 303, St Paul. For more information, call 612-812-3792 or visit HeatherBurkeMassage.com. See Community Resource listing, page 30.


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