Happy Birthday mom, I could watch you paint every day and be excited about what you are excited to conjure outside yourself. That creating art forces us to move closer to being in touch with the world outside ourselves. In our corner of the universe you are one of the brightest parts of the toughness and bravery that is has taken to live our lives. Still laughing and still curious and still sensitive and still loving and still finding purpose and still finding meaning and believing it all has meaning.