Courage Paintings

Finally, after 4 months of not being able to paint due to morning sickness, these giants have come out of me. Presenting my new, 6ft X 5ft paintings!

I painted "Dark Flowers and Fireflies" first and it shows all my pent up energy for the whole time I wasn't able to pick up a brush. It's epic.

The second painting is called, "Mother/Mother". It's not about my mother, rather about me becoming a mother. It feels like flowing milk to me.

Both paintings were exercises in courage. From reading all the pregnancy books and seeing all the risks that my baby is being exposed to for just being inside me, I realized one thing. The thing that I don't ever want to pass on to my child is fear. What I strive for as a mother-to-be is to be able to give the gifts of courage, love, health and happiness. The only way that I will be able to give these gifts is to cultivate my own courage, my own love, my own health and happiness.

The first four months of meditaion and contemplation (these were about the only activities that I could do during those months that my body had absolutely taken charge!) was Mecca's gift to me. There were issues that I had to deal with. There was much internal/spiritual preparation to go through. These courage and love exercises-the first of a series, I think- these are my gifts to Mecca.