It was a good birth.

   Baby Cecelia, like her mother, Isabella (left) was beautiful. Their souls remain even though one has been hurt by the death of the other.

   Isabella, a Venetian, is someone I will never meet & have come to know well. She creates beauty through art & teaches others to do the same. She raised her daughter (right) marvelously until shadows intervened.

   Every parent knows the role that fate plays. No matter how loving, how nurturing, how caregiving, a mother is, a child can one day slip into a darkness no parent can reach. 

   A terrible drug kidnapped Cecelia from her mother & killed her at eighteen. Heroin changed Beauty into death.

   Ten years later, Isabella has not healed.

   "Art helps," she wrote from her home in Italy. Art, via Instagram, introduced her to me.

   Can art turn loss into Joy? I created a one minute "cinema poem" for Isabella & share it hoping it may introduce healing into your life as well as hers. Click on link below:

https://youtu.be/r6ssMw1VT98

-erie chapman

Photographs supplied by Isabella.