This is an amazing painting by my friend David. David and I go waaaaay back. On September 4, 2009 I did a pregnancy test at 5am. There was a verrrryyyyyy faint line. But, as my friend, whom I call BIFF, says, “A line’s a line!” It was the extraordinary news that my baby Chickens 🐣🐣 were on the way. I knew there were twins in my tummy because A. We had been manifesting them and B. The line was there on the “normal/average” time line of when a line “should” appear, whereas my previous 4 pregnancies showed waaaay later because well, they just did (yes, 4 prior pregnancies, I had a miscarriage between Curly bear🐻❤️ and Dakota and Montana, I wrote about it in my book and on the Herald).
Back to September 4, 2009, a day etched with joy and love and light in my brain. I’d woken at 5am because we were embarking upon a new adventure that day, we were opening our very first (and hopefully last, please let it be our last) restaurant. It was called “Prana Cafe.” It was a raw vegan restaurant born from a vision I had and my strong desire to not prepare the raw vegan food we were eating as a raw vegan family. I figured, “How hard can it be to have a restaurant?” I know those of you who have or have had restaurants are laughing out loud right now….
I woke my HH (handsome husband) crying that morning, holding the pregnancy test over his sleepy morning eyes, and he said lovingly, “It’s ok, Supermom, it’ll happen next month.”
To which I responded with a squeal, “It’s positive! It’s POSITIVE!!!! There’s a line!”
I carried that pregnancy stick around with me all day in my backpack, pulling it out when no one was looking, smiling in delight.
So, back to David. David was in the restaurant that day finishing up his painting. He was painting a vision I’d had…a vision of a pink house with purple and green trim, in which the Chickens 🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣 of restaurant customers would enjoy Disney movies, wooden toys, tea cups and other delights while their parents munched happily on delicious raw vegan food. It was situated so that the parents could see their Chickens and the Chickens could not escape out the door of the restaurant. I knew that I wanted to do this because my HH and I had frequented a restaurant that had a little play area for kids, even though the food wasn’t great…just so we could actually chew our food and swallow it before needing to jump up and tend to our Chickens 🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣.
So that’s when David and I met, in 2009.
I check in on David periodically to say hi because I really like him. When I texted him last week he said he had been creating tons of art. Then in a matter of days, I swear, DAYS, he created this masterpiece for me…note the yogi in Natarajasana behind the wine glass.
I didn’t ask David to create this for me. He felt inspired, and he created it. He did this from the bottom of his heart. Then before I could blink an eye, it arrived on my front porch. Framed! My HH and I immediately hung it prominently in our dining room, right before you enter the kitchen at the happy white pineapple 😊✨🌟💫🍍.
A huge shout out and so much gratitude to David for this masterpiece, which melts my heart every time I walk by it, which is many times a day.
Reach out to David to have your own art created. He’s THE BOMB!! He’s so talented and wonderful and I so appreciate what he is doing for this world. Tell him I sent you.
Blessings🙏🏻Love❤️Joy😊Gratitude💫Happiness🌈and Infinite Inner Peace☮️
David’s Instagram:
@david_j._richardson
David’s Bio:
Artist David J. Richardson, is a contemporary painter who lives and works in Western,
Massachusetts. A native of The Berkshires, his paintings reflect that beauty and nature. His
distinctive personal style showcases great texture, color, movement, and balance. Picturesque
landscapes, animals, insects, geometric shapes, and shape repetition are key aspects to his
compositions.
"Art has been an outlet for me, and a way to relate to the world."
He considers himself to have a non-conforming style that is imaginative, unique, and widely
interpretable. In his paintings you can find some of the very same qualities found in the most
notable movements in art. Ranging from the cubist movement, to the abstract expressionist
movement - he progressively embraces a new and special form that is unmistakably his own.