FLUTTER
24 x 36, acrylique. March 28, 2013. This painting started weeks ago with the shake-down at the Vatican when Benedict resigned. After that I was as anxious as much of the world about the outcome and waited with baited breath. Finally, a surprise - Papa Francesco - someone we hardly knew or expected but welcomed warmly. If you look closely, you will see red caps on my birds....just those agitated Cardinals in Rome... whom I loved watching on TV with their flowing robes.... and you know how much I love red...

"Hope" is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul

And sings the tune without the words

And never stops at all

- Emily Dickinson