October 3, 2008

Jason says he wants to be my "assistant" after graduation. What I need to be assisted with I wouldn’t know how to explain, but the gesture is graceful nevertheless. Did invite him to share my new studio space. His presence may be my only hope for continuing as a painter. He says that he and his wife want to adopt me, and that when he is a rich and famous painter I will come and live in a wing of their house. Does take the anxiety out of my dotage. Jason is better than a son or a brother, for there is no bitter history behind the present joy.