Blue Votive Candles app 5x8 1/2 oil on wood panel

Try as I will I have never heard a tale or legend about votive candles, in fact for an item as important to civilization as candles about the only thing I have found concerns the history of making them ( and that is amazingly unchanged over time). Although churches use candles - large columns as well as votives - they are not considered holy. For the most part they are used for praying, either asking for favors or for favors to be granted. "I'll light a candle for you" means "I'll pray for you".

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Donuts 4x9 oil on wood panel

The history of donuts is disputed. According to some historians there was a sea captain who got tired of his wifes pastries being raw in the center so one day he punched out the raw middle, on, of all things, his steering wheel. When he went back home he demonstrated the hole making process to his wife, thus ending forever the raw-in-the-middle pastry problem.There have been some amusing variations reported about this home demonstration on donut-hole making by the Captain for his wife. 'Nuf said.

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