The Gift of Life

Watercolor
12/2012

When you look back on a lifetime

and think of what has been given to

the world by your presence, your

fugitive presence, inevitably you think

of your art, whatever it may be, as the

gift you have made to the world in

acknowledgement of the gift you have

been given, which is the life itself…

that work is not an expression of the

desire for praise or recognition, or

prizes, but the deepest manifestation

of your gratitude for the gift of life.

                                              - Stanley Kunitz

Wild Woman of the heart and
soul
2011