A Simple Recipe - original

An original acrylic with walnut frame by contemporary artist Colby Sanford. 

• 8" painting

A Mere Day's Growth + A Simple Recipe

"How is it, my Queen Midas, 

that as soon as you 

show me your care for something 

that it’s brightness soon

Comes to life in my mind?

Such as,

Your worry at the shape of our dear little’s head, day after day as you hold her. Moving her hair, that is coming in fast, from one side to the other, examining, comparing to the similar shape of my own. 

Or,

The measurements of buttermilk, oats, wheat flour, sugar, vanilla, blueberries and my two extra tablespoons of water, become more than a crispy edged breakfast with its peaks and valleys.  

A mere day’s growth 

becomes a valuable difference. 

A simple recipe becomes 

a reason to wake. 

Something once pointless 

now worth more than 

its own weight.

Otherwise 

Pebble things

Pebble moments 

By your care

By your touch

Turned into 

Gold"