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Day 5. Exhale.
“Exhale” 6×6 oil on canvas I have been keeping a sketchbook this month in hopes of making this 31 a...
Day 4. Displaced
“Holy Longing” 8×8, oil on canvas Back in November I was in Baton Rouge visiting my brother and we took...
Day 3. Ease.
“You Have My Full Attention” 4×4, oil on canvas “I don’t know exactly what a prayer is. I do know...
Day 2. Beginnings are Hard
“Splendidly Small, Brilliantly Blue” 4×4, oil on canvas Beginnings are hard because they necessarily involve loss. With the first stroke,...
It’s been twenty years since…
I nervously took my first art class in 2000 at Spring Hill College. My professor’s kind but direct handling of...
What is Good.
I will defend my position with the gusto of a hummingbird claiming her spot at a busy feeder: the...
Mary Oliver’s “Hurricane”
I had two friends reach out recently about hardships they are facing. The kind of hardships that feel...
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