I have dabbled a little over the last 2 yrs, more to just smell the paint, to visit an old friend. Picking a brush for the texture, spreading paint on the canvas like tracing the edge of a picture of someone you long to hug. We have settled ourselves into a beautiful city, and I have created a space to make it easier to paint. And I have been painting. The ideas are swimming in my head like a whirlpool of warm water - hey that could be something to paint...see? In the process I have been working on unfinished paintings, and creating some new ones.