The Yellow House

18 May

Dear friend,

It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood.

I looked out my studio window and noticed this house peeking through the openings of the foliage. I had to paint it.

The house was on the other side of Red Clay Creek and the Kennett Square YMCA outdoor swimming pool. A crew was busily preparing the swimming pool for the summer season, anticipating that many more folks will have been inoculated. There is a reasonable probability of “normalcy” returning to everyone’s lives.

Normalcy, isn’t this what we all want? But for Van Gogh, normalcy is perhaps, uninteresting, and does not encourage growth:

“Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.” — Vincent Van Gogh

Here’s to “normalcy”, balance, good health, growth, and kindness to self and to one another.