Community in Pears

I painted this pair of pears today while all I really wanted to do was EAT the damn things.  They look lopsided, but the piece of wood was a little shorter on the top than I'd anticipated (I really DO need new glasses), and the pears were funky anyway.  Now I don't want to eat them any more because they seem so happy sitting there together, and that is what I'm thinking of these days - TOGETHER.  

I've been reading a great deal about community, and although I derive my religion and spiritual grounding from being alone and outside, poking along, peering, peeking, and picking through things I see, things I find and things I hear, that I thought I'd give more than some thought about community and really LOOK at things that are together.  I'm starting with pairs, as that seems the easiest "community."  Perhaps I will get to larger communities as I drift along.  I love thinking of little communities of two and remember vividly being shown to my table when I go to restaurants alone.  "Party of one?" the person always asks, and I try to assure her that yes, this IS a party even though I am "one."  What the hell is the stigma about being "one"?

Part of one signing out for now.  Here's to maintaining this thought for more than three entries...