YOU ARE DEAR (8×8/oil on canvas) You are dear…..what a lovely thing to say to someone. There are few people in our lives who hold that role without variation. They are open and soft and they love us. They also tell us the truth. They tell us without any judgement they think we could try harder to mend a broken […]
Adventure 8×8 on canvas It would be nice to meet in Amsterdam, go to the Van Gogh museum and spend a couple days exploring there. We could have great conversations and laughs. We could even make our way by train to Paris to go to the Musee d’Orsay Musée d’Orsay. It would be hard for
Super Sleuths My older sister, Kit, was an avid reader. She was nearly always curled up in some corner with a book. Kit was my hero. I wanted to be just like her, so I read my first Nancy Drew book at age 6. My childhood held one mystery story after another through the following
A NEW PARADISE (8×8/oil on canvas) by Dorsey McHugh She dreams of home. In the past, she did not even dare to believe it existed. Now, it is a real place. It expands every moment. Like a painting that is being painted by some invisible hand, her future reveals itself. And in this future
Conversation is at the top of my favorite things list. My Dad – and later my sister, Kit – taught me the joy and art of what a conversation is when in its best form. I love turning ideas over. I love being honest with another person. I love trusting another’s intellect and their heart
Gentle mistress of the heavens, silent Golden, remote, lonely. I wonder if your longing is so vast, It pulls even the tides into your embrace.
How do we get introduced to ourselves? How do we identify the gifts in us that make us who we really are? We try very hard to stuff ourselves into places where there is no fit. Often we do this to make someone else happy. In John Bunyan’s book – “Pilgrim’s Progress”- the traveler leaves his
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Sitting here in the dormer window of this little cottage. The weather is still chilly. I am warm and toasty in my inner landscape. The weather suits me right now. As I look out onto the landscape, the thought arises I could possibly be on the set of Wuthering Heights. The imaginative stimulation also suits me. A moment now
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The last few days have been filled with loud and funny races around the kitchen island with Eli in the lead and Sammy close behind. Eli running as fast as his legs can carry him around and around with Sammy sidling behind as fast as he can. Sammy has a unique crawling technique. His mom says he seems
This adventure begins. I am sitting in the Nashville airport. My primary emotion is excitement…….anticipation. It occurred to me last night while I was packing, that as my mother and father’s marriage failed, I set out on a similar adventure. My son, Todd and I drove all over America for a few years. At that time,
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