Mika and Her Art
My eldest daughter, Mika, has always been an arts and crafts kind of kid. In all our birthdays, Mika would handcraft something with love. We never had the heart to throw any of her arts and crafts projects away (which turns our room into a huge scrapbook project). She brings pens, crayons, pastels with her everywhere, even when we go abroad or have staycations at hotels. Mika with her pastels, at Acacia Hotel. Like a true artist, Mika recently painted an exceptionally great, though surprising painting which possibly expressed how she felt. This was a month or so after her sister passed away. What Mika painted during a kiddie party. She said that she remembered Halloween was coming up, and that inspired painting above. Our friends loved it, but I was a bit alarmed. A few days after that, we met with her mentor in school, who mentioned that Mika, after asking for permission to leave the classroom during class, never came back. The teacher found her wandering around the s...