ABSTRACT
Michael Patte and I visited Patch Adams, the renowned clown and physician, during December 2012 in his Illinois home (Figure 1 shows Patch at home during the interview.). The home he shares with composer and playwright Susan Parenti is charming inside and out, full of objects made by human hands that exude color, creativity, and human warmth. Their welcoming home is cozily reminiscent of the Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young song lyrics ‘our house, is a very very very fine house’ complete with – as mentioned in the song – two cats, who on the day we visited were away being spayed. In the living room where we had the interview, high-tech equipment was out of sight. The computer used by Adams’ assistant was in a basement office. (He writes his own correspondence by hand, not computer.) The large-screen TV (which Patch used to show us videos) was kept under cover by a lovely handmade quilt.
