It is not how busy you are, but why you are busy — the bee is praised, the mosquito is swatted.

Please enjoy a celebration of pink paintings this month, in honor of breast cancer awareness. I paint for my friends and family who have fought the good fight against cancer, for their families, and for all caregivers who help along with the journey toward a healthy self (body, soul, and spirit). In my strokes of pink, are prayers of strength and healing.

Today I paint for Amy LupPlace Gillispie. She did important work. She was a daughter, sister, wife, mother, and artist. She was unbelievably creative. She did all her important work for the last decade with breast cancer. She was brave, strong, and so beautiful. Hands down, she looked better without hair than ever man woman or baby I have ever seen, she was soooo beautiful. Our community won’t be the same without her, RIP.