A couple of years ago a tornado blew through downtown Atlanta damaging buildings in the city and nearby in-town neighborhoods. A good friend living in one of those neighborhoods helped put together a fundraiser to help raise money for uninsured homeowners. It was a great event that included a silent auction and I was lucky enough to win a painting. Honestly from the moment I saw it I was in love with it. I loved it even more when I read the artist's notes about the painting.
Hundreds of colorful prisms flowed through the banisters of the Fresh Air Home's second story balcony. The prisms cascaded downward to the grand foyer and greeted the "Lost Children" with magical warmth as we entered through the home's front doors. Naturally bonded by silent fears we listened pensively to the housemothers as they explained the rules, and the consequences which most certainly would bewail us if broken. Moving effortlessly within the dancing rainbows, the fairies whispered words of encouragement: "Leave behind the fears within your confused little minds and the battered scars left upon your little bodies; you will be safe within the halls of your magical summer home." - Deborah Elizabeth Empting
A footnote following this passage explains that this is an excerpt from a novel the artist is writing. She further explains that she transitioned in and out of 36 families while growing up in Tybee Island and Savannah, Georgia. Now when I see the painting, I see pink and all the other beautiful things that a child tries to imagine when growing up in a painful world.
May we all see the world with fresh eyes everyday celebrating pink and all the other beautiful colors in it.
Joining Beverly at How Sweet the Sound for Pink Saturday.
Joining Beverly at How Sweet the Sound for Pink Saturday.
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