Paintings out there

My show is staying up for an extra week, i  settled in for the familiar pain. (  i've an image from a' lady bird book' of a gingerbread man , and the words : ' run run as fast as you can ,you cant catch me i'm the gingerbread man ' and if he doesn't run the fox will eat him , so  how he runs , and oh how  , in the past , me and my little sons have urged him to RUN .) And now i realize its not there ,that pain,  its run out .It must be a lot to do with the amount of people who have bothered to go and look , they cant all have been obliged , or hoping for a good party , I've had to begin to listen to them - a big broad listening -
     Most weeks i have to go to the butcher to buy Jonny a piece of meat , i look at all the different bits of bright bloody animals , and they wonder if i'd like that slice, or ,some of the other ,they touch the meat tenderly with interest , and i say i dont eat it, you choose  , and they apologize , and i apologize , and on we go go .The whole family , father, mother ,3 daughters , and 1 son work there , and they are all very nice people , so i gave them a card for my show , and saw it propped up with the meat orders .  On  my next visit , i heard 2 of them had been and liked it . I longed to eat one of their home made sausage rolls in celebration , cosy and grateful , but i couldn't .
   And as for  other friends and family, my sons, step children, daughters in law, grandchildren all going to  look at my paintings, let alone buy , it does  ,after all, feel as if ive stepped in ( i think that gingerbread man came to a stream ..........Oh dear was it a bad ending ? Yes , it was, i remember  : my eldest son when he was little , pasted paper over the end .  )  to a big warm pool of gratitude and reciprocalness .
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