Here is a post by Bodhi Werner on 12/8/21
Dancing Lines The Tango.
One of the 68 Pieces of art in my mother Clare Cooley‘s memoir Incandescence: Rising Above Darkness that I designed, formatted, and helped her publish.
I am deeply touched by the story of how this piece came to be. As my mother tells it, her mother who was living with her, had a coronary and respiratory arrest and was taken to the hospital. For the first time in her years of hospital visits, the doctors did not let my mother be with my grandmother. My mother could do nothing to help, she was only able to go home and be alone with her worry. So she asked herself what can I do to help? She heard her mother’s voice say do something that makes you happy. So she drew this drawing. And out of the worry and sadness came the lively, exuberant, and joyous Dancing Lines.
When the doctors finally allowed her to see her mother in the hospital, my mother told her how she had spent the time drawing. My grandmother said to her daughter, “Thank you, dear. I felt it and It really helped me.”
You can see Dancing Lines The Tango here:
https://www.clarecooley.com/…/product/dancing-lines-tango/
You can find the book here:
https://tinyurl.com/Amazon-PaperBack-Full-Color
