An Anniversary
Hello! Welcome to my first 15 subscribers! Woo hoo!
I don’t know what constitutes a large number of subscribers but I have to tell you I am honored that each and every one of you is here. Thank you for hanging out with me as I explore this platform as a way of sharing art, ideas … and today, my 6th wedding anniversary to this guy right here:
To those I haven’t caught up with in a while, please meet Sean Webb, my husband and best friend. He is, among many other things, a great poet. His website is: seanwebbpoetry and you should definitely check it out. Here is another painting of him…
The painting of the two of us is still in progress - I see all kinds of things I would like to change - but that’s okay. The reason I share it today is to highlight the particular moment in time that it depicts.
It is painted with acrylic paint from a selfie we took of ourselves in Central Park right behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York some time in the fall of 2018. Earlier that year I had undergone chemotherapy for stage 4 breast cancer and had come a long way back from nearly dying although the future was still very uncertain at the time this picture was taken. More on this whole cancer thing in future posts.
What I hope I captured in this double portrait is Sean’s genuine nature of being funny and light hearted even in the face of major challenges. And my deep gratitude for this.
He never treated me with pity or pre-emptive grief. I sometimes got the feeling he didn’t even see me as sick. Of course he did, and those of you who know him know he went through his own trauma related to these events. But this way he had of sharing the joy of a moment even in the midst of our most challenging time taught me a huge lesson in radical acceptance just at the time when radical acceptance was most required.