So big surprise, life doesn't go as planned! For some reason, I think I can figure out how everything in my life is going to span out... and then, almost on cue, that thing happens that I did NOT plan for. So here I am, painting again.

This painting I actually started almost a whole year ago. Sometimes all I need is a good, forceful kick in the butt to remind me of what I wanted to be doing all along.

My fiancé took this photo a few years ago in Cuba. A gentle, weathered face; placid expression, holding onto a barbed wire as if it were string.