Penelope Przekop

“As wonderful as it is to have clarity, I want to reach back to my younger self, through the years and past all the pain I put through. I want to go back and somehow shorten the winding road she's starting down. I would go to the night she sat pointing at her Bible and tell her how much intrinsic value she had, just waiting to be unleashed.”

“I hope your road hasn't been too challenging. If it has, take heart! I've come to acknowledge that there are some wounds and regrets that time cannot fully erase; however, time provides opportunities for healing and renewal, a shift in composition, and a scar capable of fading.”

“The only way I've been able to cope is to set up house in a metaphorical white room. Keep everything simple. Color is emotion; the thing that drives me to please like an insatiable addiction, and that addiction puts me in jeopardy of compromise. Compromising for the sake of pleasing makes the intellectual in me want to puke. Hating myself in any way makes me grieve, and that's something I can't afford.”

“As wonderful as it is”