Tag: painting
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Epiphany
Light is the theme of the day. I love the way fire looks in the grey half light of a winter afternoon around the Puget Sound where I’m from. These grey days with their low clouds can feel oppressive. Bleak winter days can seem to go on forever, making our load seem heavier, doubling our…
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The Stations of Acceptance
It’s easy to look back with sighs of regret, as a mother “in the weeds,” as a person in midlife, having made life’s commitment at last, at the unfinished work; work that has been eclipsed by the demands of your dependents, and cannot be attended to again for some months or years, if ever. What…
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A Little Piece of my Heart
I made this little oil painting while I was pregnant with my son. Perhaps I was pondering the sure evidence of the love of God growing within me as I conceived it.
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Looking at Pictures Again
There was a time in which I was a little girl, frozen still, on the floor, gazing into a book at a painting by Balthus. I was gazing at another pensive little girl, who was gazing back at me, perhaps lost in dreams of adulthood herself. I wished someday that I could paint her, too.…
Michael Shelby Suberlak 