Art with Heart

Art with Heart is a show of fine arts in Portland, Oregon. Some of the proceeds from sales of the pieces are donated to assist those in need. Art with Heart appears annually in multiple locations on the west side of the city.

Last year I was volunteering to lead an Art Workshop at Bud Clark Commons, a social service center for veterans, homeless people and the mentally abnormal. I was invited to participate on the jury for that location of Art with Heart hosted at Bud Clark Commons. It was an exciting new event! Bud Clark Commons is housed in a relatively new building. Some of my oil paintings, including "Sensual Sunrise" showed there, with the work of the published writer Sally Franz from New York City, who prefers watercolors and now lives near Seattle, with others.

This year I was invited back, but I may not attend in person. I have donated almost all of my canvases of original oil paintings and one or two acrylics to Bud Clark Commons. They will show this autumn. 

Smoking Loon Beach

There was that guy on the beach! 

La mia famiglia called me back from the wind's breath,

tormenting my soul.

I was just looking at his silhouette, though.

 We popped the cork off the bottle of reddish wine;

shining through it was the light from the sun.

Sardines--

 my mother served them because she liked them

smoked with mustard.

We walked, later,

into the night where all the fun was, I supposed.

And then he was standing there at a concert and we started dancing bodies side by side to the 

beat.