Love, Loss & Remembrance - I Carry You In My Heart.

Last week I lost my sister. 
It was so sudden. 
It's always so sudden. 
I thought we'd have more time. 
We all think we'll have more time.

I Carry You In My Heart. 



Treasure each day and each moment. 
Create memories that you can carry in your heart.

Love, Steph

Sweat, Tears and The Sea - an art piece full of hope.

The cure for everything is Salt Water: Tears, Sweat or the Sea.

This quote is from Isak Dinesen. When I started on this piece, I was intrigued with the person who wrote this quote. I did some research and discovered this name was a pseudonym for Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke who wrote the autobiographical book Out of Africa in 1937 which later became a movie with Meryl Streep and Robert Redford.

This piece was commissioned by someone I admire deeply. I see how this is the perfect quote for her life - through thick and thin, good times and bad, her inner strength and positive spirit is readily apparent.
 




Here are a few more quotes from Isak....

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.
   
Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.

A great artist is never poor.

I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them.

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.


Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich
and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about
are of no importance whatsoever...

Hoping you're having an infinitely rich and beautiful life this week.
Love, Steph