Freebird
The Goldfinch is available at Valley Artisans Market in Cambridge NY. One of the most beautiful sounds in nature is the sound of a songbird singing its special tune, flying from tree to tree, free to fly wherever it wants to go. There is nothing lovelier then watching a crow strut, a couple of love birds cooing, or cute little sandpipers at the beach. For most of my life I wasn’t able to enjoy the beauty of a bird. I had a severe bird phobia, not just your run of the mill bird phobia, but a full blown, anxiety ridden, couldn’t breathe kind of phobia. When I was a young girl I came home to find my two pet canaries dead on my kitchen floor, an event so traumatic I almost couldn’t write this sentence. Dead birds where a constant theme in my childhood and even today if I am very anxious I can picture them in my mind. Art gave the beauty back to me. Art healed my bird phobia when last year I hand embroidered a series of several diffe...