Time to Grow

#GivingBack – August
"Time to Grow"
​Oil on pine | Roaming House series

Some things bloom slowly.
Not with noise or urgency,
but with quiet conviction --
a stretch, a reach, a knowing.

At the center of this painting is a form I’ve returned to before --
a circle that is both sun and flower,
radiant and rooted,
a bloom of light held together by time.

Opposite it, a tide of blue,
a rising current that could be wave or shadow,
question or invitation.

Time to Grow is about that pause --
the moment just before you rise,
the knowing that something inside you is ready
even if nothing outside you says it’s time.

My twins chose this painting.
Like every piece in this series, it will be left behind --
no price, no plaque.
Just a gift, waiting to be found
by someone who’s been growing in silence.
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Maybe that someone is you.

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