Leaning moments don't always come in a book. Many learned lessons come from the people around us. By observing their actions or their character in their daily lives. It might be someone like a history teacher that not only teaches you moments in history but takes the time to teach you how to take good lecture note-taking skills. Above and beyond the scope of the curriculum. A skill that helped me through many college Art History lectures and even in situations today. These are people that mostly don't even know how they effected your life. Or it might be from a friend. Some time ago, I was give a beautiful small, leather bound sketchbook, with lovely, soft handmade paper, given to me by a special teacher/friend. This lovely book seemed to inspire special thought as to how it would be used and more than just simple pencil sketches. So I looked around for special things to create in it. As I searched my eyes stopped at these two small figurines of white angels. They were sitting on a shelf in my studio. They had been given to me by a life-long friend. The mother of one of my oldest friends throughout my childhood. She was someone that I learned some observational lessons from. Such seemingly minor, yet special ways of life skills. The life of beauty. Things like pimento cheese is better if homemade and stored in a beautiful antique canning jar. Or that a Saturday lunch of fried chicken tastes wonderful when served at a well set table of china plates and cloth napkins. Even to a table full of teenagers in wet swimsuits coming off a morning of skiing on the bayou. Or that you slept better if you felt pretty in a matching nightgown and robe. These are the lessons that you don't learn in a textbook. But they influence how you see the world. The act of going a little extra. Or as they say in New Orleans, a little lagniappe, that something special.
So in this time of year when people openly talk about and tell the stories of angel visits, I share with you my delicate, small angel figures. Given to me many years ago by a lovely friend. Survivors of time and the waters and mud of a hurricane, but still sitting beautifully on a shelf in my studio. Sharing with you my small painting, Baby Angels.
Thanks for connecting and a Very Merry Christmas!
Cissy
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