Holding tightly to precious moments
As I'm painting my current series on moments of transition, and all of the potential that is bound up in those fleeting units of time, I am deeply aware of the speed of our lives. "Just yesterday I brought home my first baby and now we are planning high schools!" Where did that time go!? We speak of this - I say it, you say it - frequently and often flippantly, without acknowledging the grieving behind it. The small comfort of collective experience hides the little (or some
