I used the memory of my brother, Don, as a model for this painting called, A Man Of Sorrows And Acquainted With Grief.

I was thinking of Don today, remembering a time when he had four small children and worked in the desert raising fish with a gun. Part of his job was to shoot egrets and his boss got after him repeatedly for not killing the birds who loved fish and ate his profits.

Then he got a job in a dairy and pleased his boss there, because egrets don’t eat cows.nancymauerman.com

A Man Of Sorrows And Acquainted With Grief – Jesus Praying