by muffinstud » Tue Oct 06, 2009 3:44 pm
Emily just stared ahead and let Susan's words bounce off of her. She hadn't thought that she could go back and start over. She was remembering, back when Richard was younger, his love for drawing. He had been good too, and he had won awards in elementary and middle school. But then he had discovered that he coulnd't support himself on his art, and he went with his keen business intellect to carry him through to success.
But Emily was a woman. She wouldn't have to provide, not with Susan helping her. She could pick up the easel and pastels and get back to what had made her youth happy. And with her shrewd business sense, honed down to a killer's eye due to Richard's carreer, now she could make a tidy side-business out of it. "I want to get some pencils, pastels and some paper." She recoiled for a second. "Wait, sewing? You're kidding me, right?" She glared at Susan with one eyebrow raised.
"Well, you'll have plenty of time to live in a van down by the river, when you're living...in a van down by the river!" --Matt Foley, motivational speaker