And, if you can't do it in the optimum way you prefer, find another way to do it. I can't keep up with the expense of replacing paints and canvases. And, if I'm honest with myself, many of my preferred art supplies are not good for my allergies and respiratory health. But, I can't stop creating art – I've just had to accept that colored pencils, pen and ink, charcoal, and pencil drawing are my media now.

I would have loved to give my father an oil painting of him and my mother after she died. I gave him what I could instead, as you saw in my essay, "Memorial Portrait."

There is always some kind of way.