Vagabond Artist

It has been a week in bed. I started feeling a sore throat last Saturday but only realized Monday that I had the flu - la grippe- in French, it sounds so awful.

The flu sounds ephemerous - an unknown thing that comes and goes out of no where and leaves sweat ridden bizarre dreams but in French la grippe is a hideous monster that comes up from behind and clamps onto you shortening your breath and filling your sinuses with goo.

La grippe locks onto you in a judo clamp and makes your muscles sore, makes you hack yourself awake, makes your nose shut completely when you lie down to sleep. Its Grendel.

Today I feel better and even left the house, a short brisk walk around the block in the icy biting northern wind. At the beginning of the week I was disappointed because I had planned to go to the atelier and paint all week but the days weren't wasted.

In and out of bizarre dreamy sleep I updated my website Tuscany-Painting.com adding over 50 new paintings and deleting many old images. It has been well over a year that the paintings had not been changed.

Next week will be exciting because I am going to put several paintings on ebay in collaboration with Mario Cappelletti from Tuscan antiques.