American by Choice
Paul Schulenburg
Some of us got together on election day to take our mind off of events of the day. We painted at the home of a wonderful patron of the arts and our terrific model is an "American by choice". He came here from Trinidad 45 years ago and still works in health care taking care of people with Down Syndrome. At 82 years old! He seems decades younger. He used to sing with rock and roll bands. (no singing today) It was an incredible afternoon painting with friends and forgetting about the rest of the world for a few hours. He wore an American flag sweatshirt, the same one he wore when he became a citizen. (I wanted to include the flag on his sweatshirt for election day but I didn't get to that. Ran out of time)