@FieryAndFree Thank you. I wanted to develop a style beyond the graffiti of my youth. [Chuckling, he looked around the room.] Mama and nana loved color. I wanted them to all be pretty and happy.
@FieryAndFree I wanted something for everyone. [He opened the door and showed her the room was full of paintings of his family. A few in particular were in front. His nana and parents.]
@FieryAndFree Well since the anniversary of their death is coming up, I wanted to do something for the whole family. [He motioned her to follow to a vacant room of the house where he’d spent the last few weeks painting.]
[Sitting in the dark on the deck, he listened to the symphony of the night: chirping crickets, howling wolves, hooting owls. The night was alive and it calmed him. Granted, the whiskey helped, too.]