Don't worry, Be Happy
Don’t Worry Be Happy, egg tempera on panel 24 x 29 cm, April 2025
‘Every life we have some trouble
When you worry you make it double
Don’t worry be happy!’
I am playing volleyball with a bunch of would-be Peace Corps volunteers. Mobutu Sese Seko has just cancelled our visas to Zaire and we are waiting to see what will happen next. We have taken over a hotel in Philadelphia and are making the best of a peculiar situation. We are ready to ‘ship’ but we have lost our country. Bob Marley is singing this song.
And at that moment we weren’t sure it was fixable …it did all work out. I went to California and eventually was reassigned to Kenya where I played this song many times on my Walkman that was powered by the solar charger that I brought with me to the Kerio Valley. It still makes me want to get up and dance. And as the stock market tumbled I did (a little).
Which of the characters in this tableau would you want to dance with?
Don’t Worry Be Happy, egg tempera on panel 24 x 29 cm, April 2025
‘Every life we have some trouble
When you worry you make it double
Don’t worry be happy!’
I am playing volleyball with a bunch of would-be Peace Corps volunteers. Mobutu Sese Seko has just cancelled our visas to Zaire and we are waiting to see what will happen next. We have taken over a hotel in Philadelphia and are making the best of a peculiar situation. We are ready to ‘ship’ but we have lost our country. Bob Marley is singing this song.
And at that moment we weren’t sure it was fixable …it did all work out. I went to California and eventually was reassigned to Kenya where I played this song many times on my Walkman that was powered by the solar charger that I brought with me to the Kerio Valley. It still makes me want to get up and dance. And as the stock market tumbled I did (a little).
Which of the characters in this tableau would you want to dance with?
Don’t Worry Be Happy, egg tempera on panel 24 x 29 cm, April 2025
‘Every life we have some trouble
When you worry you make it double
Don’t worry be happy!’
I am playing volleyball with a bunch of would-be Peace Corps volunteers. Mobutu Sese Seko has just cancelled our visas to Zaire and we are waiting to see what will happen next. We have taken over a hotel in Philadelphia and are making the best of a peculiar situation. We are ready to ‘ship’ but we have lost our country. Bob Marley is singing this song.
And at that moment we weren’t sure it was fixable …it did all work out. I went to California and eventually was reassigned to Kenya where I played this song many times on my Walkman that was powered by the solar charger that I brought with me to the Kerio Valley. It still makes me want to get up and dance. And as the stock market tumbled I did (a little).
Which of the characters in this tableau would you want to dance with?