Love Can Come to Anyone
8×8- Oil on Canvas
Our entire life is a lesson in Love……
Giving is free. Loving is free. Caring about someone else is free. What we give away is what comes back to us…..
When I was 15 I got my first job at the blue line drive in. I made (what seemed like) a lot of money that summer and managed to keep a hundred dollars in my savings account. My older sister Kit, who had gone off to the university of chicago a couple years earlier announced to the family in november that she and her boyfriend were getting married on Christmas Eve. This meant that we all had to drive across the midwest in my grandmothers new green DeSoto. This was quite a financial stretch for our parents and we were gently told that the trip was going to have to be our Christmas present. Still, we celebrated an early Christmas with our tree dressed in bubbling lights, tinsel, and a few presents. The plan was to leave by midnight and drive through the night. The idea had come to me a few days earlier to withdraw my summer savings as a surprise for Dad. So I waited until the last gift was opened and then presented him with the envelope containing a crisp 100 dollar bill. He stared at it for a few seconds and then of course he cried………and laughed. I knew he understood what I was saying to him. It meant more to me though. I had given my first gift. This was my first real Christmas.
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My Favorite Things – Day 23
Happy Holidays from Dorsey McHugh Fine Art! Dorsey is offering a series of paintings, ‘My Favorite Things’ – 8×8 oil on wrapped canvas – for a special price this season. Each painting is $300, plus $20 for shipping & handling if not locally purchased. Each day through Christmas Eve, we will post the image of one painting on her blog – http://hidorsey.wordpress.com. If you would like to purchase one of the 12 paintings, you can contact us at [email protected] or by phone/text to Susan at615-293-3623. Peace and Joy to you…
Dorsey McHugh Fine Art
Lovely painting. And happy new year.