THE WILDERNESS KID T-Shirt

Wild and wooly, love it so. Thank you, friend.

very nicely done

Thank you, wildrider. Much appreciated.

My favorite favorite and I did favorite them all! This is such a wonderful, meaningful and moving painting and I love what you’ve written about it. I love the way you write, your prose is poetic. Gorgeous!

Sande, you’re very kind, very heartwarming to me that you like my work. Much appreciated, believe me. I’m all aglow. I hadn’t intended to do any of there, but I was so encouraged to make more shirts after selling another one yesterday, can’t believe it, I’m in Canada (WhisperingRuth) and Australia (Nicmutt).
Thank you for all your interest in my work, it just means so much.

Such a beautiful piece Barbara . . . truly painted from your heart . . . I think every sole would love to venture to Cachagua at some point in their life . . . Your work has always been awe-inspiring to me . . . xxoo

Thanks for that, Ruth. I can picture your northern skies and clouds at will now, another place to fly to.

Beautiful image Barbara, makes a great T : )

Bless you, bites, so kind of you to say.
As you know, sometimes you manage to hit the feeling you’re feeling with paint and picture, and this turned out to be just about right for all the woods there did for me.

Barbara, this image reminds me so much of an artist that I met on another site. Not that it looks like her work, it is totally your wonderful and unique style, but because she lived in such a place. And she had the good sense or good luck to know that it was special. She had grown up on a ranch then married a rancher. She was just emerging as an artist, still so unsure of herself and her talent. Raw but refining at warp speed with an enthusiasm and passion that I envied. And without realizing it, she wrote beautifully especially when she was describing a place and life where she could sit atop a horse on a mountain and see the ocean on one side and deep expanses of wild land on the other. I wish I’d gotten her actually email address. She said that she was going out for a week to move the cattle to other pastures and I never heard from her again. I hope she’s still creating. As a little girl, I wanted so to be a cowgirl but grew up instead in typical small town, middle America fashion. I wish I’d told her how absolutely thrilled I was to meet a real life cowgirl. It was the same feeling when I met the real life adventurist artist, you!

Thanks Barbara. You always make me look at my life with new eyes. After my dad died about 14 years ago, I started having insomnia and nightmares. I won’t go into the reasons here but my doctor recommended and therapist he wanted me to talk to. During one session with her, I was telling her what I’d done with my weekend. I was an avid biker in those days and we’d been in the mountains on an isolated nearly deserted trail created when Winter storms had washed out the original road. It was a great day that I still remember because it took us six hours to get to the top of the mountain and twenty thrilling minutes(before my bike wreck that ended my riding habit and wrecked my confidence for years)to get back to the bottom and our truck. I told her that on the way up we met another couple coming down. I described them as “beautiful people” and the therapist asked what I meant by that. I said, “Oh, you know, those perfect people with perfect lives who always make me feel so small and insecure in my own life without meaning to.” The therapist actually started laughing. I remember looking at her, probably with a scowl on my face and then it dawned on me why she was laughing and my jaw dropped open. I gasped, “You can’t mean that I’m one of those people!” She smiled and said, “You would be surprised how many people think of you in that way and envy your life.” So, I guess the real meaning of life that we all keep searching for might just be appreciating and finding our joy in exactly what we have and exactly where we are…and if it or we aren’t perfect(and heaven knows, I’m not!) striving to get the life we want. You are not only amazingly talented in so many areas, so enviable in your courage and strength, but also very wise…and I’m thrilled to have met you. Rarely do we meet people that actually enhance our life and aid us in our growth the way you have me in just a few short weeks. Thank you, Barbara!

Odd, because, like the comment made by the therapist, I know that there are many people who consider me to be incredibly brave. I guess the problem is, we all know our own weaknesses.
Love the comment about the astronauts.

wonderful image and a very striking shirt. I seems to convey something to me about a strength in solitude and communion with nature and the spiritual life.