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©2020 Charlene Brown
Here’s another Christmas letter, with the
addition of two overlay paintings of Pakistan, and a sketch of the Bidaya
Mosque on the east coast of the UAE. I wrote about this sketch in a blog post a few days ago.
Back in the present (Happy Easter to you all in self-isolation)... One of my projects for
2020, as explained in my New Years blogpost is to complete an autofictional novel about a few years in the lives of young women in six generations of my family. In mid-March I sent a second draft of this collection
of six short stories beginning in 1898, 1925, 1958, 1987, 2017 and 2042 to the
publisher for editing. I’d had the presence of mind to insert a couple of
references to COVID-19 – but it still jumped directly from December 2019
to September 2020 in the fifth story. I am using this time
when I can’t paint to fill in this big blank in the fifth story. In real time.
