About Jay

Jay is a native of Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Graduating from the University of Wisconsin, Stout, he majored in Hotel & Restaurant Management. Like many folks from cold climates he wanted to live in the tropics and moved to Key Largo, Florida where he worked as Assistant Controller for the Sheraton resort. He returned north in 1993, eventually opening Jay Gilbertson Salon in Minneapolis. He now lives on 80 beautiful, certified organic acres in Northwest Wisconsin where he grows much of his own food, recycles and enjoys life. He and his partner also produce the first pumpkin seed oil tin the US, check it out at http://www.hayriver.net .

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: Jay’s Salon – now closed

: Jay waving from the trout pond

: Jay has 15beautiful laying hens

: Writer and Hydro-engineer Wannabe

: Jay remains close to his mom, dad, brother and sister

: Christmas time

: No pot of gold. Just good enough to see such beauty.

"Our job is to look and say, you know what, you're imperfect and you're wired for struggle, but you're worthy of love and belonging." -Brene Brown

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible!'" -Audrey Hepburn

"Where the home is, there lies hope---and a future waits and everything is possible"---Jennifer Worth

"If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?"--- Lily Tomlin

"Now all my teachers are dead except silence"---W.S.Merwin

"You can't eat language but it eases thirst"---Bernard Malamud

"When you get there, there's no there there."---Gertrude Stein

"To confront a person with his own shadow is to show him his own light." ---Carl Jung

"Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best." ---Gabriela Mistral

"Can one ever remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume." ---Arthur Miller