How I Bought Irene's Painting

Painting by Irene Peslikis New York City summer 1991

Email June 12

How I bought Irene’s painting

Hi Jean and Pat and Helen and Peggy

I bought this painting from Irene the summer before I moved to Tucson, which would be summer of 1991. I did not know I was going to move to Tucson at the time.

We moved to Tucson on Thanksgiving 1991. And when we bought this house a year later, I paid Irene to ship it to us. It had not left Irene's apt till then. Her husband Richard took it to the store which ships things. 

And Bill put up on the wall. It was before he went to art school and became an artist himself. He said "it makes our house classy that we have a painting by a New York modern artist." 

When he was going to art school he was sleeping on the couch underneath that painting.

He said he would look up at it and learn from it.

And it was while he was sleeping under that painting, he had finished art school now, and was trying to be an artist on his own, and torturing himself about how to start painting on his own, that he heard his Higher Self speak to him for the first time.

I guess he was torturing himself that he had to paint something good, which was paralyzing him.

So the first thing his Higher Selfigher SelfHh said to him was "you are learning." Which meant he doesn't have to paint something good, just to learn from doing it.

It really helped Bill because he took the pressure off himself as a result.

I myself had discovered my Higher Self (heard Her for the first time) a few days before I was in Irene's apartment way over on the west side of Manhattan and saw that painting over her dining room table.

I had gone over there because Irene called me up in tears. My Higher Self said "tell her you'll be right over." Then my Higher Self told me to take a taxi cab and come right over to her house.

While we were having lunch and I was looking up at the painting, my Higher Self said "tell her you want to buy it, you will give her one thousand dollars for it." 

Irene was overjoyed. It is the first painting I ever bought.

LOL I guess my Higher Self doesn't fool around. When your friend calls you up desperate and in tears, your Higher Self has you hop into a cab right away and buy her new painting for $1000. Irene was a totally happy girl when I left.

I was in the midst of an incredible ordeal myself at the time, which is why and how I had just discovered my Higher Self. 

It thrilled me to my toes to buy a painting for $1000, never would I have imagined I would do that! That was before I even bought myself any new clothes, I was still buying all my clothes for $1 from the homeless on the street.

I guess this is what they mean when they say "Your Higher Self knows the past, present, and future of everyone involved."

Who knew I was going to move to Tucson few months later! Who knew Bill was going to go to art school in Tucson! Or that we would have a house!

I liked buying the painting at the time because it was such a shock to me that I had done that. And it sure cheered up Irene, she was totally happy girl when I left.

But looking back on it all, I think it is the best $1000 I ever spent. After all, in Tucson we got our first car (the truck I am learning to drive on now) and discovered the wonderful world of car repair. It is always $1000.

Irene's painting is still up on my living room after all these years.

It is a huge painting.

Lemme see if I can copy Irene's painting here on email for all of you

I'll try to crop off the living room wall around it so just the painting shows up.

Love Annie