Painting and Emotions

Today, I finished a pastel painting from a photo I took of my son, Charles ("Sandy") at age two.  In the painting, Sandy is on our friends' sailboat  wearing his life preserver and the boom with sail and block and tackle are behind him along with a view of the water and land.  I was listening to music as I painted and suddenly, a song from the 70's came on and between the music and working on Sandy's face, it brought tears to my eyes with the remembrance of that sweet little boy and of that segment of time in my life.  It made me feel such a connection to my son and my love for him.  There was a flood of emotions during this painting.  I found myself asking - Where did the time go?

Sailing

I just spoke with Charles, as he now likes to be called, who is, as of today,  39 years of age and I told him that I had just finished this painting of him.  He thought that was nice.