When I was in high school, I won our ‘Senior Mantle Award’. The Senior Mantle was like a graduation gown someone wore at graduation which had large patches sewn onto it, each about six or seven inches in diameter, from every graduating high school class. On my patch–the one they chose to sew on there–I had written ‘We are like traveling sailboats, not knowing how or when we will reach our destination, only that we will.’ I had no idea how pertinent this saying would still be, and no idea why I had thought of it, but it sure is pertinent even today.
At year’s end, during the holidays, many of us thought our lives would be different; that we would be married now, or still married. We thought that we would have kids or a better job, a different career, or better health. But the day isn’t over yet. The book isn’t written. The journey isn’t finished, and until it is, there is always hope that things will change for the better.
This piece, ‘Salior’s Delight’, is 5 x 7, acrylic and newspaper on a nested birch panel. The original is gone, but prints are available.
