“Achievement, in and of itself,
“Achievement, in and of itself,is a gift we give to ourselves.”
is a gift we give to ourselves.”They finished on a Monday in January.
Every day save Sunday, they had come in on the murkiness of dawn, left on the gloaming. Yesterday they had applied the final touches, the most intricate of them all. All the brushes had been put away in their proper cubbies in the studio, along with the drop cloths and pigments. The scaffolds were gone, far more easily demolished than constructed.
They were all there, every member of Da Vinci’s Disciples, the old and the new, as well as their maestro and the two who had taken his place in his absence.
maestroThey stood in one long line, shoulder to shoulder, from one side of the cappella to the other. They spoke not a wor
