A Toast to the Bride

Title: AToast to the Bride
Medium: Acryic on Canvas
Size: 8 x11 inches
Artist; betsisanders 09

It is every woman's dream to walk the aisle and become the prettiest bride. In February 1982, a day after Valentine's Day, I received three red long-stemmed roses. The unsigned card said, "Life is a flower of which love is the honey and I am the bee." The flowers came from a classmate, whom I married four years later.

I am a woman, who has lived and loved; who is in a transition from being an adult and becoming an elderly person. who reinvented and created a better version of herself. The painting draws out all emotions.. Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness. I've dropped the sad stories of my life, avoided anything, any one & everything that made me unhappy or angry. Everyday,I say, I'm happy, I'm pretty, I'm lovable and loved. I spend time with friends who are generous with praise and appreciation; those who are honest, truthful, who tell no lies, who truly care, are grateful and never demanding; those who have stayed on, kept in touch, always thoughtful, those who see the goodness in me;...and those who matter don't mind what I say or do, because those who mind, don't matter.

The WOMAN,,is calm, quiet, mysterious. She is grateful for all the blessings, lives a comfortable life, never needing nor wanting anything material, because material things never made her truly happy.The woman is loved by a handsome, loving ,caring and wonderful man. She is respected and loved by her son, who is her inspiration and whom she lives for. She hopes to live longer and to love more. She prays never to get angry again, because a moment of anger would destroy many years of patience. The woman has friends and family who love her back, who make her feel needed, wanted and appreciated. That woman is betsisanders.

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