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This is a large commission painting that I hung recently. (Thank you Beth for believing in me enough to set me loose on a painting for you!) Hanging this was all about beginning again and getting back t0 the business of doing what I love and of course that is what my father would want me to do.\u00a0 48″x48″ commissioned by Beth MacLean for her office.
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It is hard for me to begin again. My dad died just over two weeks ago and I have struggled to write a blog post, since my last passionate one nothing seems as important. The ordinariness of the past two weeks feels like an insult to the intensity of the previous month. The every-day-ness is a affront to the powerful love and the concentration of feeling that went before. But likewise (and in contradiction to what I just wrote) the ordinariness is comforting. The sun sets, the sun rises and a new day begins. Work needs doing, groceries need to be bought, the car needs service, the dog whines for a walk\u2026.. The truth is my father wouldn\u2019t have it any other way. He was a doer, a hard worker, someone who got things done. And so my work continues and this blog that he was so devoted to continues. My dad was possibly the first person to read my blog each time I sent it out, and while he rarely commented publicly he almost always sent a text or an email of encouragement and praise. That\u2019s what is hard now – my dad was one of my biggest fans \u2013 forever cheering me on. And now he\u2019s not there. NO, that\u2019s not true; his legacy in my veins is made of stronger stuff than that! I hear his encouragement still in my ear, in my heart. So I guess I better get back to work.<\/p>\n

Thanks to all of you who sent your kind words and encouragement over the past two weeks, you have buoyed my spirit and I am grateful.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Because commissions can be scary, I painted 2 paintings so Beth could choose.\u00a0 This one (similar but different) is now hanging in the Ranch dining-hall waiting for the the right home… maybe you? 48″x48″
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