Mermaids. Kaleidoscopes. 24x30 your ability to be present

your ability to be present for others during their last days of life

The kinds of memories that are more like prisms of light that illuminate this life experience than anything that actually physically took place

My first draft of my memoir is 238

Sometimes in my teeth chattering or like light coming out of my fingertips

taking in the hope the person that started the painting felt

Mermaids. Kaleidoscopes. 24x30 your ability to be present24x30 Acrylic Canvas Resin Sometimes the ocean is playful. Light and brilliant aqua in the distance from the boardwalk. Beautiful young people play volleyball, everyone surfs, hipsters skate, and kids eat ice cream in a pink bayside park. A roller coaster rumbles in the distance. Palm trees are sky high, and the air smells like salt, sunscreen, weed, and sometimes cotton candy. When I skate the boardwalk its like flying through a dream. Getting into