Only because a tornado could do no further damage.
I've been working on making the Labor piece into a triad and have a deadline of tomorrow morning when I'm showing it to the interested midwives. I've been working on those and Andy's had a crazy week at work, making brief appearances at home to prove he indeed has a place to sleep. The house (which, let's be honest, is never in what one would call a completely sanitary state) is showing the effects of our busyness. As I walk through the house I wish both my eyes and my nose could be turned off at will and it brings me down, threatens to crush me. BUT - my dear friend Shannell is coming into town for the week and I am excited! A-aaand I've found an initial subject for the human trafficking pieces I've been longing to do!!! She's a member of our church and has an amazing story; her father sold her. She's an extraordinary woman with just a clinging faith to God and has agreed to let me paint her. Yesterday at church Tri talked about Isaiah 43 & 61 and all the sudden I was flooded w/all these phrases to use with the work: "beauty from ashes. . . behold a new thing. . .looking ahead. . . I have saved. . . you are honored. . . you are precious. . . you will not be burned. . ." Man, just read through Is.43 and try not to get excited! I'm so pumped but now I need to find a good photographer in the Boise area to take initial pics for me to work from. I'm telling you, Willa, you can write the plane tickets off as a business expense.