This painting is one of my first attempts to create. It represents my childhood home in rural Mississippi. The painting is from a photo in the spring of 2013. No one lives there anymore; however it is still in my family so I can go to this house and the land surrounding it where I spent the first 17 years of my life with my Mother, Father and brother.
…………Can anyone really go home again……….
So many mistakes with this painting yet it reminds me of the beginning of my artist journey; therefore I shall not try to repaint or correct the mistakes….Could not anyway…..
After high school graduation in 1965 I left this sacred place for college and I visited often and I always called it my home but I did not ever live there again.
Forgetting would take away so many memories that shaped some of the best of me. Goodbyes always so many goodbyes in this journey of life……
Did you know that the word goodbye we used today was God be with you during the 1500’s.
Now I can be joyfully and say God be with you….but the goodbyes….often I just rather look at the memories and allow their visions to wash over me like a gentle summer rain…
cooling my brow and bringing the leaping joy for all that was and the learning I continue to experience.
Yesterday a group of Delta Sky Sisters gathered together to remember and celebrate at a ministry one of our own began and her legacy is still going on…..
The memories of 50 years captured in our hearts and bonding us together…
Going home, could it be for 2 hours yesterday those of us who were together were at home.
Home where the memories of our life transport us to places now experienced in our hearts forever….
https://youtu.be/XTOABVJNZtU
I will not say Goodbye by Danny Gokey
Until I see you again or until I just remember I can always go home again and again…
God Be With You
Martha
What town in Mississippi?
My mother was born in Satartia and lived there until they moved to West Memphis. My grandfather worked barges up and down the Mississippi. Mom’s sister’s husband taught at Mississippi College in Clinton and my cousins were in his classes with Lillie Walker! I almost fell off the jumpseat late one night when we were talking.