"The Residue of Yesterday" - acrylic on paper, 16" x 10.5" .  "Bend the Knee" - acrylic on paper, 15.5" x 13".  Each available here and at Artfinder.
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The studio was quiet for about a week.  

The space was cleared, air mattress inflated, suitcases piled in corners.  There was a different kind of mojo percolating - family, frivolity, feasting.  We spent a lot of time reminiscing (and laughing - oh!  Those kids!) and also reflecting.  The past year has put many in our family  on the other side of some sort of surrender.  Our shared stories were fodder for new strength.

It was no surprise afterward when the life drawing models assumed poses which echoed surrender.  Life has a way of making us bend the knee under the residue of yesterday.

There is an exquisite catharsis after a shared surrender.  A metamorphosis of transformation - like the miracle of composted garbage turned into soil.  Sorrows given words take wing and become light and airborne, leaving us behind with a gift of residual wisdom.

Over the past few years, the collaboration between myself and author Mary W. Cox has been a form of cyber catharsis.  A painting floats on the internet, burdened with emotion and waiting to be released.  A haiku frees the emotion from the art and transforms it into wisdom and hope.  We are so fortunate to have this connection and oddly wonderful creative process.

The weight of the actual book will feel satisfying in our hands - like a sleeping newborn, filled with the endless potential of the universe.  It arrives any day now!