Quiet

It's been just over a month now that Gracie has been gone.  It's very quiet without her.  As my husband says, she was "A Presence." From the day she entered our household until the day she left.  On her last day she was actually walking in the backyard, barely, and woofing at our neighbor, barely.  She did not give up, ever.  Although I no longer spend much time grieving or weeping, moments like this one, sharing her story, do bring on the tears.  I am simply grateful for the honor of being her human mom and that she was able to have a long, well-lived life.  Not all of Earth's creatures have that.  


Our other two pups and a our cat are fairly quiet, unobtrusive beings.  They like being with us, but are as content to go off napping in other spaces away from us.  This has given me the long awaited opportunity to get back into the studio.  I have so many paintings left undone from a long while ago, and new things to tackle, too.  I was invited to teach a workshop late last month  which, at least for me, was a complete joy to do.  It's been a slow transition back, but it's going well, so far.  I don't anticipate diving head-first back into frantic commission work; that was not a good fit for me, but I am hoping to establish a nice, steady pace. 


Here is a sample of my latest endeavor, still on the easel and not complete.  

 Baci
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