Freedom at the Beach: Ronald McDonald House Charities Orlando

I was asked by Coldwell Banker Realty and the Ronald McDonald House Charities to do a piece for the CB sponsored room in Orlando. What a fabulous place for parents and families with sick children to rest while they go through such an ordeal! I am honored to do such a small part. I wanted to give families an image of hope and fun and better times. This is another version from a painting I first did in my book If You Could Tell Time, What Would You Tell It? There will be a copy of that in the room as well. My message to Time and to anyone who takes the time to look and love art is the same: Thank You.

There Will Be Time

I've been reading this lovely poem since they were babies. Still rings true for me.  

There Will Be Time

by Peggy O'Mara

There is time still for sitting in cafes in Paris sipping wine.

Time still for going to meet the guru.

There is time still.

Now I am caring for eternity.

Carrying bodies soft with sleep to beds of flowered quilts and pillows.

Answering cries deep out of nighttime fears.

Buckling shoes.

Opening doors.

Pretending.

My soul now is dwelling in the house of tomorrow.

Tomorrow there will be time for long leisurely conversations, for poems to write, and dances to perform.

Time still.

So I surrender now to them and this, knowing it is they who will teach me how to do it all.

​The Dream Pages
48" x 60"