A Morning Walk

Morning walks in a country town.

Each of the five characters

in my folk art painting

represent very real people.

They say something about

each of them.

Each of them is different'

Each of them has his or her 

own perspective  about life

in a small country town.

The stories of their lives

continued to connect us.

We lived in a gentle time

when people took time to share.

We lived in a time

when we knew everything

about each other

when no one was hurried

and life was a lot slower.