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Choosing My Mother — Transition Sector pg21
a colorful companion to my memoir The Incompetent Psychic
With credit to a happy childhood and a workhorse of a mother, Joan had developed into a strong woman who was capable, devoted to duty and flavored with a playful humor — a healthy combination of whole wheat flour and yeast. An indifferent education had left her not quite fully backed. Her good-hearted father had imparted to Joan a generous, eccentric nature and a taste for distilled spirits. — from Chapter 1
This portrait of my parents is from a photo taken in 1978, at my sister’s wedding on a boat in Hawaii. I did this in oil painting ten years later as a warm up for commissions of other people’s parents, spouses, ancestors and dogs.
Joan and Roy hung in mom’s sunroom full of plants for thirty years, and got moldy and buggy on the back side. Eventually, so did my parents.
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