666…in progress – Day XXXI
17 new leaves, on a day on which I remember as if it were yesterday, like some of you I suspect, as a 17 year old schoolboy where I was when I heard that President Kennedy had been assassinated. These inspiring words from his inaugural address could not be a more relevant call to action today.
“Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.”
666…in progress – Day XXVIII
534 leaves completed on a day when we learn that the White House killed a deal in October 2019 to pay for mental health care for migrant families separated at the border.
666...in progress – Day XXVII
After drawing today’s 12 leafs I was lucky enough to be able to spend an afternoon with our two beautiful grandchildren. I couldn’t help thinking about the separated children the leaves represent and how important it is to keep them and their families in our thoughts each every day until they are all reunited.
666…in progress – Day XXVI with a new total of 510 leaves.
666…in progress – Day XXIII
…and a birthday card for my always beautiful “lily of the valley” ❤️
…and starting this morning with 445 leaves.
666…in progress – Day XX11
…on a day on which we remember all those who lost their lives in Paris 5 years ago today..
In remembrance this was my post on November 15, 2015
Studio 365: Day 319
I wrote, on Studio 365: Day 11 after the massacre at Charlie Hebdo, how I fell in love with Paris on my first visit there as a young boy in August 1962. I posted a drawing I had made sitting in the Tuileries Garden on a beautiful summer’s Day. Now, here I am on Day 319 once again expressing solidarity and sympathy through the best way I know how with all those mourning today in Paris, in France and around the world. The drawing from that same never-to-be-forgotten visit in 1962 is of one of bridges over the Seine, when one of the most beautiful cities in the world inspired a young boy who has felt that inspiration ever since. Je suis Paris.
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