98 - FOREVER FREINDS

FOREVER FRIENDS

14 x 21 ½ inches

(Karen Hastings)

This painting conveys a thousand words! Karen is adventurous, energetic, ambitious, and loveable; she has been my friend forever. Even after fifty years, we still have many commonalities that bond us. We keep In touch with regularity.

One would never guess by her appearance in this painting that she also grew up on a farm near a little town in Nebraska. Karen was president of our sorority; her organizational skills and boundless energy were contagious, prodding all of us to raise our grades, to get involved, to become the best we could become. She pushed us to succeed.

Early to bed, early to rise was, and still is, her mantra.

We all have forever friends—they are the true treasures of our lives.