| Song Playing "Candle In the Wind" |
| Dreams of a child |
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| *When I was 5. . . I told my mother that I was going to marry a man who owned lots of horses and cats and I was destined to be a mother. It was not in my plans to get married and later divorced and then to remarry, but it happened... *23 years went by. . . After 2 years into my second marriage, I gave up my dream of being a mother. Then. . . A beautiful, helpless, white kitten came into my life, she was alone and rejected by her mother because she was sick. Her eyes were terribly infected and full of hay. Her mother had kicked her tiny helpless, frightened baby out of a nice warm home in a haystack. I answered the kitten's cries for help, they were quite loud and could not be ignored, she sounded so pittiful, frightened and alone. After cleaning up her infected eyes, I discovered that one eye was gone, it had been eatened by the infection. The other eye's lens just popped out: I watched in horror as it rolled across the floor. I raised this helplessly, blind Kitten as my own...and named her "Babydoll". She proved to be not so helpless as other sences compensated for her lack of vision. She was the child that I thought I would never have. So in memory of her life with me, I did a painting and named it "The Dreams of a Child". I even added some things that came later in my life, which became a part of who I was, like Skiing and painting. |
| my 5 year old picture, one of our 21 horses, Babydoll (and of course, on the tiny canvas) my sweet, dear husband, crossed skiis (represents my severe skii accidents of '80 & '83) Paint brushes (represents my desire to be an accomplished artist!) |
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| I Added items later in my life: |