Strength and Glory after Husband’s Death: Elegy to a Tree

About six months after my husband, Marty, passed away I turned to the creative voice within me to help me express my soul’s grief.  After enrolling in a drawing class, we were given the assignment to go outside and draw a tree.   I did indeed have a favorite tree, outside my house on the golf course and I would sit and look at it in the sunshine and the lightning storms,  taking great comfort in its strength and dignity. When I took my drawing pad outside to work on this assignment, to my horror and dismay I discovered that […]