Family Sweet
Father’s Day (1996)
Mother’s Day (for Nan – 1999)
Bubbles and Stars (for Joanna – 1997)
Miscellaneous Etudes
Gratitude (2016)
The Refusal (2016)
Walking with Summerville (2000)
In the mid 1920s, my Grandfather (whom we always called “Pop,) lost his left hand rescuing some foolish boys from their improvised Fourth of July bomb. This limited his work possibilities even more in those days than it would now. Eventually he became a gas and water meter reader. This amounted to walking for a living, which he found very agreeable.
Among his colleagues was Summerville, who had lost his right arm as a baby to a tornado that ripped him out of his family home and dropped him in a nearby cornfield.
In this etude, Pop is walking with Summerville. His part of the conversation starts on the right hand, Summerville answers on the left. They get into kind of an argument, as friends often do, but as friends also do, they resolve it before their walk is finished.