I got my first big smile
on this family portrait yesterday. I usually don't let my unfinished
work be seen by anyone, but my computer technician noticed this one
on the easel as he was leaving. I had left to go get money to pay
him. When I came back I saw him smiling ever so big at my unfinished
portrait. He told me it was very good while still smiling. I didn't
realize how much it can help when you see someone looking at your
painting that don't know you are watching them. I am ready now to put
the finishing touches to it. This portrait was intended for a memory
of a great, enjoyable trip by my son, and his family, I am calling
it the “The Incredible Four.” My daughter-in-law who is the one
sticking her tongue out, asked me to paint this portrait for them. My
grandson, with the ever so important look on his face, is the largest
face on the canvas. My beautiful granddaughter, and son in the back
are still unfinished, and it will be hard to disguise these two
according to the snapshot I'm painting from. They are posing as more
serious than beautiful, and handsome. I must make it real as to their
feelings at the time. I love these children, and will always believe
there are no better people in the world.
I am staying home from the
luncheon at the Center today because I don't eat shrimp. I was raised
in a home that believed the only sea food that was eatable was fish.
To make it stick with us we were told that shrimp was the tails of a
big crawdad. We children caught crawdads in our yard every time it
came a big rain and filled the holes with water. We would never
thought about eating them. And as for oysters, they were the butt
holes of something that never developed any other part of their body.
I suppose if fish had not been mentioned so many times in the bible,
that sea food would be nasty too. I never fed my own family anything
but fish that lived in or around water. But somehow after they grew
up they are great lovers of most all kinds of sea food. I feel so
blessed that in my life time I have had a choice of many meats
without having to eat the unclean as my dad, and mother saw it. I
think I would gag if I knew I had swallowed a piece of shrimp. Of
course being the wise person I am, I'm sure I have swallowed not only
shrimp, but possible many other kinds of nasty meat, that I wasn't
aware of. Thank God for keeping many secrets from me. I am 86 and
have always had a good stomach. Until recently I never had to take a
rolaid, or any kind of indigestion medicine. I still don't very
often. No answer for that blessing.
God Bless
Myrtle Jean Sharp
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