Hi there. What a sad time this is for our country. We are grieving the deaths of 19 little ones in a Uvalde, Texas grammar school. Some of us are grieving the loss of the old Republican Party. The real one. Others of us grieve the loss of a time we took voting and so much else for granted. Some of us grieve people we have known and lost, too.
I don’t know how other people grieve. For their exterior does not necessarily match their interior. And grief is a many-sided experience. We can laugh in the middle of our pain. Or grieve someone who was a real pain in life. I keep learning.
Some people are able to speak at the funeral of the departed. I could not. But I have written the funerals for my two sisters. As the mister read one of them, sunbeams broke from behind a stained glass window and danced around on the lid of Barbara’s casket. Time after time. Until he stopped, and we all watched.
But one thing has been common in my grief each time I’ve lost someone, is a sense of a low high. It is protective, I know. And it helps more than almost anything else.
The reason I mention it is within that escapism, I find creating the art that accompanies the chapter I write is wonderfully healing. Today, I want to share some of them below. If you want to see more of them, just go to Instagram Gloria.Christie.Reports.
I’m toying with the idea of selling prints of my artwork (without the copy beside them). What do you think of that idea? I would be interested in your opinions (below). And if you want to read some of the chapters or even just one, the first three are free at Amazon. Kindle Vella. Gloria Christie.
I hope you enjoy these tastes of magic realism art even half as much as I enjoyed creating them. Stay safe. And stay well — you and yours,
Gloria
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