About Me...

     I was born in Loma Linda, California on Oct. 1, 1969 to Linda and Steve Sutherland.   A good-looking baby, I must say.  I did not speak for the first five years of my life and that made it hard to tell people what I wanted and needed.  This was because some of my brain was damaged when I was born.  The "Experts" stated at the time to my parents that I would never progress beyond a "Vegetable".  I guess I must be a brussell sprout.  But now I am very articulate.  I started to do magic to help my hand-eye coordination and to learn how to follow directions, since I was dyslexic.  I was just four years old.  Then I also started taking dance classes at a very young age, to help me learn how to walk and move on and off stage.  Since 1973, I have been on stage performing all around Los Angeles and the United States as well as on many different TV shows as a magician, singer and dancer.  After all my schooling, I graduated with my Mom and Dad's help.  Then I attended Landmark College in Putney, Vermont.  There I learned to read and write.  I went from a third grade reading level to an eighth grade reading level, while I was there.   Also my math skills weren't so hot, but they brought those right up too.  In 1998 to 2002, I was a student at the McNichols Dyslexia Learning Center in Newport Beach, California where I learned how to read, write and spell better.  Now today, I am a Lighting Director at Coast Hills Community Church in Aliso Viejo, California.  I also direct lighting, sound and set design along with many other jobs in the local theatre world. 

 It makes me happy that I can write poetry and be able to share it with you.  I hope you will enjoy what many have said is heart-wrenching poetry; it expresses my frustration and pain I have felt all of my life

S Gary Sutherland

The Poet

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