Untitled (Hommage a William-Adolphe Bougereau).

9/20 is World Children's Day. Just sayin'...

The Challenge (Hommage a Pippilotta)...

"We owe it to our children,

to give them a dignified and hopeful future."

Giorgio Napolitano.

Chase Greatness (Hommage a W.A. B.) ...

"Walls Turned Sideways Are Bridges." Angela Davis.

Little by little, step by step (for my dear Friend @iamgroot65 ) ... "The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery." Erik H. Erikson.

The Child of Wonder (for Amelia) ...

"A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child." Pythagoras.

In Memory of Sempé...

Father...

never approved of my toys.

Saw them as child's playthings.

I was a child.

They were my world.

I ruled there

And he stepped on them,

Destroying them.

And in turn

Destroyed me.

I should have been left to play.

Now I must step on everything.

T.P. Louise