...we find ourselves filled with a yearning to linger here, where time stands still and beauty overwhelms.

- unknown

Series I: I remember your sweet winter face

The following four pencil pieces recall those moments of looking into the face of your child and feeling your heart swell.



Don't cry because its over. Smile because it happened.
- Dr. Suess

...to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

-Elizabeth Stone

What was any art but mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

-Willa Cather

Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.

-Richard L. Evans