Joe and I stayed in the room with this window on two trips to Pomino in Tuscany: 2017, my dad’s last trip to Italy, and in 2022.
A few weeks after we came home in 2017, Pop and I were sitting at their kitchen table. “Let me ask you something, have you left Pomino?”
“Yes, I think so…”
“I haven’t,“ he said. “I wake up wondering if I’m still there.” A faraway look in his eyes. We felt him in 2022. He loved this place. His spirit will always be there for us.
This is a birthday present for my honey and it will hang in our bedroom where we can wake every day and say good morning to Pop.
22″x30″ – Winter 2024-2025 – Watercolor on Paper
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