afternoons with sarah

I’ve known Sarah since the day she was born. Sarah loves to draw when she was a little girl and her favourite drawing instrument was the colour pencil. Often, she would disappear for hours and, when she reappeared again, her tiny fingers would be clutching a blunt colour pencil and some sketches which she would quietly leave on my desk when I wasn't looking.

Sarah also loves Kiki, the family cat, and she would spend hours sketching Kiki in various poses from memory.

I remember spending afternoons with little Sarah drawing in our little garden. Bending over her drawing pad, colour pencils strewn all over the ground, she quickly became oblivious to her surroundings the moment she began. Sometimes, when I look up from what I was doing, I would smile at the sight of a little girl on her belly, legs swinging in the air and tiny yellow and white butterflies fluttering silently above her tiny frame.

Sarah hardly draws these days. She's too busy being a teenager. But I'll always remember those afternoons in the garden with my little niece, the scent in the air and the yellow and white butterflies.