I am inspired to paint rather than sew this time. Last year, CC and I took over a two-and-a-half car garage to paint huge canvases (some were well over eight feet tall), but this year we are going small. So far, the largest canvas is four-by-six inches, and it happens to be this one pictured above.

There was a confluence of thoughts that brought about this little nugget. I am ripping into a Gore Vidal novel (forgive me Gore), and find his phrases taken out of context to be poetry. I love the idea of a gumball machine that when you turn the handle (as with life and art) you never quite know what you’re going to get.