Chapter 3

One day I remember having this conversation with Hadley, she was
watching a documentary on Georgia O’Keefe and it gets to the scene
where Georgia is painting the mural and I see her write something
down in her notebook. This is what it said: “She paints like she’s
trying to re-write history.” I love what she said when she spoke
about heartbreak, when she was so heartbroken that she did not want
to paint and when she found something and she would ask herself
like she wouldn’t be sure who would want that. But she thought, you
never know, someone else may find this animal skull to be as
beautiful as I find it to be. Who knows what they might find.”
Well, you do something similar, right? Yeah! I said. Well I think
every artist does. I think all of us do. We just write or create
what we find beautiful and hope “ Do I?’” She turns to me, looks at
me. eyes wide and open. “You write like you’re trying to bring life
to life,” she