Our life is a striving towards seeing more without changing direction.
Johns and I met long ago, walking through the Whitewood of Waiting, fell instantly in love and are seldom apart. I write and paint in oils. Johns is a master woodworker. We live on a broad meadow in Vermont with plans to share it generationally with our children. We have designed/built and are completing by hand our home. Johns had one year of architecture studies and left formal education to teach himself what he wanted to know. He has built nearly a dozen homes in his lifetime, three for his family. I have a BS in Education from the University of Vermont, taught briefly here in Vermont, and in Rome, Italy along with homeschooling our sons' early years. In my youth I had lessons in ballet, drawing and oil painting beyond that I am self taught as well. Johns grew up surrounded by antiques, gardens and music. And I, literature and art, my mother had an MA in Art History which she wove lovingly into the lives of my sister and me. Together, Johns and I on our better days, make a soiree for two—we have a lot of fun designing life together.
Compassion, peace, and love!
Giovanna (Jo) Brunini Congdon & Johns Hopkins Congdon II