A paining date with Leslie is one of those kinds of events that stands in contrast to the intensities of many of our daily lives- we had to reschedule and then shoehorn ours in – and I’ll admit that I wouldn’t have been likely to do something like this without the invitation. But the time spent in relaxed conversation, the loss of awareness as we talked and slipped into our painting process, and the technical and strategic things that one can learn working alongside an artist as skilled and experienced as Leslie are incredibly valuable. I wish the world were more often like this experience. It was a little hard to go back to regular life when our time was over.