I choose to write a piece for Canadian guitarist Emma Rush, on the painting “Afterglow” by Canadian artist William Blair Bruce (1859–1906). Looking at his painting immediately evoked strong emotions of my childhood. I grew up with a similar scenario in the backyard of my family house in Nova Scotia. Though this painting was done in Sweden, I have seen a similar picture, so many times in Nova Scotia, when the ice of the Minas Basin, mixes with the layered colors of the sky meeting the water on a ...