Samantha's Sun

From the same painting session as yesterday

(I recommend using card stock, it is heavier; buy a large package of 8.5 x 11
at any stationery store--then issue a new sheet frequently during painting sessions.)

here is Samantha's SUN.

Where the heavy dark blue paint wasn't dry, it stuck to the painting above it;

that is the source of the small roundish dots--they were created when I pulled

the paintings apart to scan them. In this case I am trying to think

of them as a feature, not a bug!
Children love to paint; if you know any kids, give them a chance!

2 May
1945

One feels Hitler's death is just rather pointless now. He should have died some time ago. I wonder how many people comfort themselves with thinking he's frizzling. The Italian news is grand, I wonder if they'll go on over the Brenner. I know this part of Austria, where the fighting is, pretty well, the Voralberg Pass, the Innthal, all so magic and lovely. I wonder what's happening in Denmark.
                                                        Naomi Mitchison

The Assassin's Cloak; an anthology of the world's greatest diarists; edited by Irene and Alan Taylor, Canongate Books, Great Britain, 2000, page 222.  (U.S. edition also available.)

(Apology: I posted this a day ahead yesterday. 

Below is the quote that should have been in yesterday's post.)

May 1, 

1945

This morning's papers contained horrible photographs of Mussolini and his young mistress hanging upside down from the top of a garage in a Milan Square.

        Churchill in House said he would announce end of war when it came. But at 10:30 Mrs. Burden rang me to say programme had been interrupted to announce death of Hitler & appointment of Admiral Doenitz as his successor. Heard this at midnight. Three world figures gone in three weeks is too much to take in.

                                                   Vera Brittain

The Assassin's Cloak; an anthology of the world's greatest diarists; edited by Irene and Alan Taylor, Canongate Books, Great Britain, 2000, page 220. (U.S. edition also available.)