Thank you, Lord, for...Christmas decorations put away.

Today's Log:

>>Working on a new painting, working title is "Intimacy." Doing a digitial mock-up of the painting before I start applying, or misapplying paint to canvas (as the case may be), I find that I'm struggling with how I will present the topic. I know the main image will be a gardenia. But the background image can be anything. I'm thinking it will be woman's figure. So far I've considered a woman on her knees with her butt in the air; a woman arced backward in a circle and floating in the air; a woman with her legs spread. It's beginning to look like my view is that intimacy disarms a woman.

Some factors:
Women need/want intimacy more than men. Men generally avoid intimacy.
Sexual intimacy can exact a greater price from women (possibility of pregnancy)
Intimacy means letting down your guard and allowing someone in.
There's more, maybe later