This week's envelope goes out to another neighbor who has been facing the challenge of their first born baby wanting to come much earlier than it should. She and her husband have been at the hospital indefinitely while they work through all options to keep baby in the womb for further development.
I chose to go back to painting a butterfly. One cannot watch the transformation from a caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly without looking at the process, the struggle that each phase presents to the insect, and the resplendent result without seeing meaning in their own life. Trials, if reacted to patiently, give us strength and beauty. Somehow, this struggle for my neighbors, in time, will give radiance to them. And, no doubt, the ability to soar through future challenges.
This is done in gouache.
