Connecticut Commentary: Red Notes from a Blue State

Enders Island is located a few miles from Mystic Seaport. In the first week of May, I spent a rainy eight days there laboring, with some success, to produce three mural frescoes under the guiding hand of Chady Elias, a masterful religious artist who is the Vice President & Dean of Administration at Sacred Art Institute Enders Island  and the Adjunct Professor of Sacred Art at   Holy Apostles College & Seminary  in Cromwell, Connecticut. About the rain: I cannot help mentioning a morning prayer delivered by Sister Eugenia , a Master Catechist, after a sumptuous breakfast before we set out for the studio. It contained the usual appreciation and gratitude for all things large and small, with a slight knock “even though the weather has been not to our liking.”