Two days after Adrian and I flew home from California, our son Owen came to visit on a Thursday. He and his father went out for a walk in the pouring rain, and when Adrian got back, he took to bed sick. After that, he stayed in bed most of the time, and ate little, complaining of nausea and diarrhea. That Sunday night about midnight, Owen got violently sick, vomiting and passing out. The second time he fell flat on his face on the kitchen floor, giving himself a black eye and breaking his glasses. We had to call 911 and have him taken to the emergency room.
I could go into all the gory details, but the quick version is that I spent the last week taking care of two sick people, driving back and forth to the hospital, spending numerous hours there, cleaning up vomit, washing bedding, towels, etc. But at least I didn't catch whatever they had!
I finally got back into the studio yesterday to work on these two canvases. The first is a continuation of my "culmination" theme:
Canvas #44, 60" x 60"
The next is a background for something new, I hope:
Canvas #46, 48" x 48"
I was enjoying my newfound peace this morning, painting in the studio, when Adrian showed up bleeding all over the place after falling off his bicycle at the end of the driveway. I got him cleaned up and bandaged up and went back to work.
