This blog is about my continuing recovery from severe mental illness and addiction. I celebrate this recovery by continuing to write, by sharing my music and artwork and by exploring Buddhist and 12 Step ideas and concepts. I claim that the yin/yang symbol is representative of all of us because I have found that even in the midst of acute psychosis there is still sense, method and even a kind of balance. We are more resilient than we think. We can cross beyond the edge of the sane world and return to tell the tale. A deeper kind of balance takes hold when we get honest, when we reach out for help, when we tell our stories.
Kate, this IS joe, somehow you have perfectly captured him. We have reproduced the other photo ad infinitum, but I never saw, until this watercolor, how much more of Joe is in this particular frame! YOU made it leap out with a passion. He is just this joyful, just this...I have no words for it, but all who look at this painting can see it in the way you have rendered him, you have seen something in him and put it into this painting that has captured him BETTER than the photo ever could. Truly, Kate, you are an amazing artist. I think Joe will be very touched and pleased. I certainly am, and a thousand times more than that. Thank you so very much.
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Kate, this IS joe, somehow you have perfectly captured him. We have reproduced the other photo ad infinitum, but I never saw, until this watercolor, how much more of Joe is in this particular frame! YOU made it leap out with a passion. He is just this joyful, just this...I have no words for it, but all who look at this painting can see it in the way you have rendered him, you have seen something in him and put it into this painting that has captured him BETTER than the photo ever could. Truly, Kate, you are an amazing artist. I think Joe will be very touched and pleased. I certainly am, and a thousand times more than that. Thank you so very much.
Pam W
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