Her Heart Was So Full of Merriment

Posted on January 5, 2013 by Christi

Her Heart Was So Full Of Merriment

8×10″ marker on paper
July 7, 2012

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Inspired by the following passage from At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald:

For the baby was in the mother’s arms; and the drizzling rain, and the dreary mews, and even her father’s troubled face could not touch her.

What cared baby for the loss of a hundred situations? Yet neither father nor mother thought her hard-hearted because she crowed and laughed in the middle of their troubles.

On the contrary, her crowing and laughing were infectious. Her little heart was so full of merriment that it could not hold it all, and it ran over into theirs.

About Christi

I am a single mother with two young daughters who are the world to me. I am a philosophy professor, especially fond of Kierkegaard and Augustine. Presently, I teach as an adjunct at a plethora of colleges in the Houston area, trying to make ends meet. Creating art brings me immense joy, but only recently have I begun to venture into the arena of making my creations a consumer commodity. I'd rather my work be created as a good in itself, and given to those I love. But necessity breeds invention, they say, and human beings have to eat.
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