About
The star of this story
At 29 I wanted a child. Not sure why. Just felt some primitive urge to procreate. As if some cellular biological clock alarm went off and said, “Hey big shot, maybe there’s more to life than bouncing from one conquest to the next. Perhaps a good woman and child might give you what you truly want.” Only trouble was that love was truant as a high school delinquent at the time. So, being an artist, I began creating the essence of my desire, and eventually those paintings brought my wife to me. We lived together in the enchanted parallel universe of the Sausalito houseboats just outside San Francisco. Next up was the challenge of having a child. Miscarriage after miscarriage nearly broke us but again I turned to my creative intention and made painting after painting to bring our son into existence. And in the throes of the worst storm in fifty years, a storm so heavy our houseboat nearly sunk, our son was born. We named him Kai, Hawaiian for ocean, for so much of our life was and is tied to the sea. And for the next year I cleared my calendar to watch closely the first 365 days of his life on on our floating home. This blog is a selection of the most delicious, difficult, ridiculous, irreverent and luminous moments. It is illustrated with my paintings.
Blue skies
Stuart Sheldon
www.stuartsheldon.com