Garden Arty

My friend Sally might be the most adorable person of all time. She's a newly minted art teacher, the kind that her students will someday refer to as "the one who determined my noble path in life" or "the teacher who inspired me to become the world class still-life painter I am today." She's one of those people.

A couple of weeks ago she gushed to me about my garden-in-a-drawer project, and said that it was inspiring her to create some art. Yes, this is how precious she is. I tried to warn you.

Her illustration is above, and it's so cute I want to squeeze something until I turn blue. My bearded companion suggested that I the little dresser tattooed on my body somewhere. I'm going to hold off on that. For now.

It's so good to know that there are people like Sally around, and even better to know that she's one of my buddies. I can't help but wonder how much better off I'd be, or we all would be, if we let ourselves be a bit more inspired all the time.

Also, I should probably note that I've gotten into the habit of watching Full House reruns at the gym, and just cued the "let's learn a valuable lesson" music in my head when I wrote that last paragraph. And I'm ok with it.