art exhibition...

The x’mas exhibition is over… and a strange sort of relief mixed with sadness seeped into me this morning… got up with a sense that I had no more art to work on today… and no more Sunday projects with the kids… no more targets that we all work hard towards…
All of yesterday, it was surreal as an image… every art work being picked up brought back so many memories and I found that they were all priceless… how do you put a tag on an experience… on moments spent laughing and getting close…
And I did not want to look upset… and then there were these 3 bright beaming faces showing guests about, rejoicing when a canvas they painted sold… and how could I be anything but thrilled at their joy… kids who gave of themselves so easily while I tried to hang on to the moments like a fist that can never hope to hold water…
A wonderful day… I left with this sense of being a very very rich person.. not for the huge bag of money we made, but all that I was given so generously…
This remains an experience that I shall never try to ever equate with another…