“The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.”
– Julia Alvarez
Pink Plane – 4″ x 5″ Watercolor
Of course, I followed with the “P” theme. This little plane was not pink and her name was Dixie in the photo reference by
PencilPusher, in the WetCanvas RIL. Heehee I just realized I didn’t include a place for the pilot to sit. Oops.
About Julia Alvarez
Dominican-American author Julia Alvarez is best known for her novels, How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, about sisters adjusting to life in the US, and In the Time of the Butterflies, the tragic life story of the anti-Trujillo activists, the Mirabal sisters. Born in New York in 1950, she was raised in the Dominican Republic until she was ten, when her family fled the country. She and her husband live in Vermont and run a sustainable coffee farm/literacy center in the Dominican Republic.
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