it’s okay to feel ❤️

📦 preparing her for shipment today

🎨 “right where you left me”, 16”x20” oil on canvas

💭 excerpt from a poem on joy & sorrow by Kahlil Gibran:

“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?

Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.”

But I say unto you, they are inseparable.

Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

Verily you are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy.

Only when you are empty are you at standstill and balanced.”

❤️ thought this one really resonated with this particular piece.