MORE POartRY and PROSE - an excerpt

 MORE POartRY and PROSE - an excerpt

PAGE 110 - 111

"Colour Hues and Values"

This painting came about due to an assignment challenge I accepted in an on-line painting course.  Colour hues and values was the matter at hand.

The idea of this course was to use a minimal number of acrylic paint colours and, from them, to see how many hues and values I was able to discover and display in my picture.

If I relate this assignment to my life, I receive a valuable lesson.

I'm a very ordinary woman. Within me, I carry a minimal number of talents. I've learned that most of us do. When I was a child, my mother taught me that every person has talents. It's just that some of them are hidden.

I've learned that a human can take the minimal number of talents he possesses and he can, in time, discover, maximize, and display these talents in myriad ways.

Yes, sometimes the discovery requires tiresome and sometimes painful digging because the talent is deeply and darkly hidden.

But just as I discovered a variety of hues, shades, and values within a minimal number of colours, the opportunity is there for each one of us, to find, and appreciate, that rainbow within ourselves.

Let your light shine.

"THE OLD NEIGHBOURHOOD"

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By the time the Jamaicans moved into the old neighbourhood, I was no longer a child. I was a young woman who had made her walk down the aisle.

Just like the Anglos and the Italians, I, along with my new husband, moved to the suburbs, to a neighbourhood where people didn't sit on the front porch to keep an eye on the kids playing in the streets.

Oh, no, in the suburbs everyone hid in their backyards and had barbecues on the patio. Children were no longer allowed to play in the streets but were tucked away safely with the barbecues in the backyards.

Maybe this was the beginning of the end. The end of a time when neighbours knew each other, looked out for each other; a time when mothers were home to look after the children while the daddies went out to work.

I am blessed with memories of an interesting childhood on the front porches and streets of the old neighbourhood that was a safe and welcoming place to be. 

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