All By Addie Cungnan Analysis

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A STORY TO TELL
Addie Cukingnan loves stories. Telling them, hearing them, laughing about them, crying over them, living them. She tells her stories through the beautiful poetry of her paintings. Each stroke a fond memory, a warm thought.
Stories carry the truth of life.
Addie also loves flowers, their beautiful frailty reveals a story of a grand and intricate design by the author of all creation.
“But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you. Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?
1 In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.”

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