The Joy Diaries
(since 2024)
This is a series of joyful vignettes — snippets from life of people I love, places I love, memories that make me smile.
With everything going on in the world, and my own health struggles with Long Covid, it’s been the little pockets of joy that propel me from one day to the next. Those moments of snorting laughter or tranquil ease. Those moments of togetherness and enoughness. Those moments when your chest feels tight from your heart straining to burst against it.
Joy is not frivolous, it is not unserious — it is a practice of survival. Joy is what emerges from having lost and having something to lose. Joy is what binds us together.
It's Nap Time Bro (January 20, 2024) | oil on wood panel, 24" x 18", 2024
Mimi Eating Half a Banana in the Reservoir Parking Lot (January 7, 2024) | oil on wood panel, 20" x 16", 2024